| Media Note Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC January 11, 2008 Publication of Digest of United States Practice in International LawWe are pleased to announce the publication of the 2006 Digest of United States Practice in International Law and a separate Cumulative Index covering the period 1989–2006. As Legal Adviser John B. Bellinger, III, states in its introduction, the 2006 Digest reflects the fact that this year marked the fifth anniversary of September 11, 2001, and the events of that date and its aftermath have had a lasting effect on the development of international law in the United States and globally. Mr. Bellinger’s introduction and documents related to the 2006 Digest are available at http://www.state.gov/s/l/c24878.htm.
The Digest can be traced back to an 1877 treatise by John Cadwalader, with multi-volume encyclopedias covering selected areas of international law published at intervals in subsequent years. The Digest is known to many as “Whiteman’s” after Marjorie Whiteman, editor from 1963-1971. Beginning in 1973, the Office of the Legal Adviser published the Digest on an annual basis, changing its focus to documentation current to the year. Publication was suspended due to constraints of time and resources following completion of cumulative volumes for 1981-1988. The office resumed publication in 2000 and since then has produced multi-year volumes covering 1989 through 1999 and annual volumes for 2000 through 2006. The Cumulative Index should significantly enhance research across that eighteen-year period. In renewing publication of the Digest, the Office of the Legal Adviser continues its commitment to provide current information and documentation reflecting U.S. practice in various arenas of international legal endeavor. Where original source documents excerpted in the volumes may not otherwise be readily available, the full text is provided on a dedicated web site at www.state.gov/s/l/c8183.htm. The Digest, edited by Sally J. Cummins of the Office of the Legal Adviser, is co-published by Oxford University Press and the International Law Institute. Annual volumes of the Digest for the years 2004-2006 and the 1989-2006 Cumulative Index can be purchased from Oxford University Press Order Department, 2001 Evans Road, Cary, NC 27513, 1-800-445-9714 (phone), 1-919-677-1303 (fax), custserv@oup-usa.org. Volumes covering 1989 through 2003 can be purchased from the International Law Institute, The Foundry Building, 1055 Thomas Jefferson St. NW, Washington, DC 20007; contact William Mays, Publications Department, (202) 247-6006 (phone), (202) 247-6010 (fax). 2008/024 |
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