As an aid to law review citation-checking, this guide provides a list of treaties frequently cited in law review articles, along with links to thesetreaties in PDF format, when available electronically. Understanding the Hague Convention. One of the purposes for which the First Hague Peace Conference of 1899 was convened was "the revision of the declaration concerning the laws and customs of war elaborated in 1874 by the Conference of Brussels, and not yet ratified" (Russian circular note of 30 December 1898). 205. 11 - Planning the Choice of Forum: Choice of Court under the Hague Convention and Arbitration under the New York Convention. (citing Explanatory Report by Official Convention Reporter Professor Elisa Perez-Vera, Acts and Documents of the Fourteenth Session Book III (1980)). If you want to reference an entire article of the charter, you can omit the paragraph element: U.N. Charter art. Cite to one source published by an international organization, if the treaty appears therein. Seventeen of the states which ratified the 1899 Convention did not ratify the 1907 version (Argentina, Bulgaria, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Greece, Italy, Korea, Montenegro, Paraguay, Persia, Peru, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Uruguay, Venezuela). The 1954 Hague Convention aims to protect cultural property, such as monuments of architecture, art or history, archaeological sites, works of art, manuscripts, books and other objects of artistic, historical or archaeological interest, as well as scientific collections of any kind regardless of their origin or ownership. If the treaty has not been published in any official source, cite to one of the unofficial sources in Rule 21.4.5 (c). It is optional to include a parallel citation to another treaty source. If the treaty has not been published any of the official sources listed above, cite to one of the unofficial sources outlined in Rule 21.4.5 (c). Parties to a bilateral treaties should be included in parentheses immediately after the title, with the names of the parties separated by a en-dash. The Convention was concluded by the Final Act of the Fourtheenth Session of Hague Conference on Private International Law on 25 October 1980. A shortened title may be used for subsequent references to a treaty or international agreement. Database Access Note: access to certain databases linked to in this guide may be restricted to members affiliated with the U of M Law School or the U of M Twin Cities campus. Treaty citations are governed by Rule 21.4 of TheBluebook KF245 .U5 2020. Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarian. UNGA, Towards an Arms Trade Treaty: Establishing Common International Standards for the Import, Export and Transfer of Conventional Arms: Note by the Secretary General, UNGAOR, 63rd Sess, UN Doc A/63/334 (26 August 2008)