This is a guide for researching NAFTA issues at the University of Houston.  It is a selective bibliography organized loosely around suggested research steps.

                    Instructions for finding each listed item accompany that item.  All books and journals are followed by Library of Congress call numbers (or, in the case of U.S. government documents, Superintendent of Documents numbers) plus location information.  (For example, item #1 can be found at K9.N87, in the law library's Foreign & International Collection.)  Please pay attention to location information (e.g., LAW/FOREIGN-INTL, ANDERSON/REFERENCE, etc.).  Since NAFTA is also a business issue, many NAFTA resources will be found at the M.D. Anderson Library, our main campus library, which collects business materials.

                    The print materials with a location designated “LAW/FOREIGN-INTL” were destroyed by Tropical Storm Allison.  They are included in this guide because most of them will be reaquired in the near future by the O’Quinn Law Library, and will probably be assigned an identical call number.  Also, many of them can be obtained at other law libraries, or through interlibrary loan.

                    The Web version of this guide, in addition to printing URL's beside recommended Web sites, also links to the sites.  It is assumed that users know how to access WESTLAW and LEXIS-NEXIS.  "WESTLAW: NAFTA," for example, refers to the NAFTA database in WESTLAW.  "LEXIS: INTLAW;NAFTA" refers to the NAFTA file in the INTLAW library, both of which can be found through LEXIS-NEXIS.  "LEXIS: MEXICO" recommends the entire MEXICO library of files in LEXIS-NEXIS.

Marshall your primary sources

NAFTA texts

1.        32 International legal materials 289 (1993).  K9.N87 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

2.        North American Free Trade Agreements (James R. Holbein & Donald J. Musch, eds.).   IN PROCESS

3.        WESTLAW: NAFTA

4.        LEXIS: INTLAW;NAFTA

5.        NAFTA and related documents. http://www.sice.oas.org/tradee.asp#NAFTA
 

NAFTA legislation, drafting history, and subsequent history

6.        North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, Pub. L. 103-182, 107 Stat. 2057 (1993).  United States Statutes at Large.  LAW/STACKS  KF50.A2

7.        Bernard D. Reams, Jr., and Jon S. Schultz, The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) : documents and materials including a legislative history of the North American Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act : Public Law 103-182 (1994).  KDZ944.A41992R43 1994 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

8.        WESTLAW: NAFTA-LH

9.        Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, NAFTA works for America: administration update on the North American Free Trade Agreement, 1993-1998 (1999). ANDERSON/US DOCUMENTS PREX 9.2:B 76

10.       President's comprehensive review of the NAFTA : hearing before the Subcommittee on Trade of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 105th Cong., 1st Sess., September 11, 1997 (1999).  ANDERSON/US DOCUMENTS Y 4.W 36:105-58

11.        Report card on NAFTA : Hearing before the House Subcommittees on International Economic Policy and Trade of the Committee on International Relations, 105th Cong., 1st Sess. (1997).   ANDERSON/US DOCUMENTS   Y 4.IN 8/16:N 81/4

12.      President William Jefferson Clinton, Study on the operation and effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (1997).  LAW/DOCUMENTS   PREX 1.2:N 82/3

13.    WESTLAW: NAFTA-BIP  [Binational Panel decisions.]

14.     LEXIS: NAFDEC  [Binational Panel decisions.]
 

GATT, Uruguay Round

        Final agreement and legislation

15.    33 International legal materials 1125 (1994). K9.N87 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

16.    LEXIS: INTLAW;GATT

17.    Uruguay Round Agreements Act, Pub. L. 103-465, 108 Stat. 4809 (1995).  United States Statutes at Large. LAW/STACKS  KF50.A2

18.    WTO:  Official Documents and Legal Texts.  http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/docs_e.htm

19.   WTO/GATT.  http://www.sice.oas.org/tradee.asp#WTO/GATT

20.    General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization), Basic instruments and selected documents.  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL  K4602 .B37x Suppl

21.    Stephen Zamora & Ronald A. Brand, eds., Basic documents of international economic law (1990) [also available on LEXIS: INTLAW;BDIEL]. LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF    JX1252.B37 1990
 

Treaty resources

22.    United States treaties and other international agreements. LAW/FOREIGN-INTL  JX236   1950.A22

23.    Treaties and other international acts series. LAW/RESERVES  JX235.9.A32

24.    WESTLAW: USTREATIES

25.    United States treaty index : 1776-1990 consolidation. LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF  KZ235.U53

26.    Current Treaty Index.  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF  KZ235.U54

27.    U.S. Department of State Dispatch [also available on LEXIS: INTLAW;DSTATE].  K25 .N5832 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

28.    International Legal Materials [also available on WESTLAW: ILM].  K9.N87 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

29.    LEXIS: INTLAW;ILMTY

30.    OAS - Foreign Trade Information System.  http://www.sice.oas.org/tradee.asp
 

United States legislative information

31.    U.S. Code Congressional and Administrative News.   KF 63.U5 LAW/STACKS

32.    Congressional Information Service ("CIS") [print indexes not available after 1999; use  http://www.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp]. KF 49.C62 LAW/DOCS

33.    THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet. http://thomas.loc.gov/
 

Establish a frame of reference (Get a clue!)

Encyclopedias

34.    Jerry Martin Rosenberg, Encyclopedia of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the new american community, and Latin-American trade (1995).  ANDERSON/REFERENCE HC94 .R668 1995
 

Treatises and monographs

35.    Barry Appleton, Navigating NAFTA: A concise user's guide to the North American Free Trade Agreement (1994). LAW/FOREIGN-INTL  KDZ944.A41992 A66 1994

36.    Deborah Barndt, Women working the NAFTA food chain : women, food and globalization (1999).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL. [in process]

37.    Stephen Blank,  Making NAFTA work : U.S. firms and the new North American business environment (1998). ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL   HF1746 .B58 1998

38.    Maxwell A. Cameron & Brian W. Tomlin,  The making of NAFTA : how the deal was done (2000).   ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL HF1746 .C33 2000.

39.    Michael Dreiling, Solidarity and contention : the politics of security and sustainability in the NAFTA conflict (2001).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL  HF1731 .D74 2001

40.    Ralph H. Folsom, NAFTA in a nutshell(1999).  LAW/RESERVES KDZ944.A41992F468 1999

41.    Leslie Alan Glick, Understanding the North American Free Trade Agreement (2d ed. 1994).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL  KDZ944.A41992 G58 1994

42.    Jerry Haar & Krishnan Dandapani, Banking in North America: NAFTA and beyond (1999).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL. [in process]

43.    Barbara Hogenboom, Mexico and the NAFTA environment debate: the transnational politics of economic integration (1998).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL HF1776 .H65 1998

44.    Gary Clyde Hufbauer, et al.  NAFTA and the environment : seven years later (2000).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL  HF1746 .N3312 2000

45.    Gary Clyde Hufbauer & Jeffrey J. Schott, NAFTA: An assessment (1993). ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL   HF3211.H83 1993

46.    Gary Clyde Hufbauer & Jeffrey J. Schott, North American Free Trade: Issues and Recommendations (1992).  LAW/STACKS HF3211.H84 1992

47.    Ann E. Kingsolver, NAFTA stories : fears and hopes in Mexico and the United States (2001).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL HF1746 .K56 2001

48.    Alan S. Lederman, The NAFTA Guide: How NAFTA will affect you and your business (1995).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL  KDZ944.A41992L43 1995

49.    Luis Malpica de Lamadrid, El sistema mexicano contra practicas desleales de comercio internacional y el Tratado de Libre Comercio de America del Norte (1996).  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL KGF4827.M35 1996

50.    Frederick Mayer, Interpreting NAFTA : the science and art of political analysis. (1998).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL   HF1746 .M338 1998

51.    Joseph A. McKinney, Created from NAFTA : the structure, function, and significance of the treaty's related  institutions (2000).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL   KDZ945.A41992 M37 2000

52.    NAFTA law and business (Ralph H. Folsom & W. Davis Folsom, eds., 1999 - ).  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL KDZ944.A41992N36

53.    NAFTA revisited: expectations and realities (Paul Rich & Guillermo de los Reyes, eds.1997).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL   H1 .A4 v. 550

54.    Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, Aspectos juridicos del tratado de libre comercio de America del Norte y sus acuerdos paralelos (1998).  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL  KDZ944.O78 1998

55.    The post-NAFTA political economy: Mexico and the Western Hemisphere (Carol Wise, ed., 1998).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL HC135 .P715 1998

56.    Jimmie V. Reyna, Passport to North American Trade: Rules of origin and customs procedures under NAFTA (1995). LAW/FOREIGN-INTL   KDZ949.O74 R49 1995

57.    Maryse Robert, Negotiating NAFTA : explaining the outcome in culture, textiles, autos, and pharmaceuticals (2000). ANDERSON (in process)

58.    Seymour J. Rubin, Nafta and investment (1995).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL   KDZ944.A4 1992 N34 1995

59.    Alan Rugman, John Kirton & Julie Soloway, Environmental regulations and corporate strategy : a NAFTA perspective (1999). ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL.

60.    Trading punches: Trade remedy law and disputes under NAFTA (Beatriz Leycegui, William B.P. Robson, and S. Dahlia Stein, eds., 1995).   ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL   KF6708.D8 T7 1995

61.    Sidney Weintraub,  NAFTA at three: a progress report (1997).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL   HF1746 .W438 1997
 

International law

62.    Encyclopedia of public international law. LAW/FOREIGN-INTL  JX1226.E52

63.    Restatement (3d) of the foreign relations law of the United States [also available on WESTLAW: REST-FOREL, and on LEXIS: INTLAW;FORREL].  KF 4650.A17A5 LAW/RESERVE

64.    Mark W. Janis, An introduction to international law (1988).  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL   KZ3140.J36 1988

65.    Thomas Buergenthal, Public international law in a nutshell (1990).  LAW/RESERVE   JX3091.B84 1990
 

Use other people's research

Research guides

66.    NAFTA Research Guide.  http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/ref/ils_ref/nafta_research_guide.htm

67.    Research Guides:  NAFTA.  http://www.law.duke.edu/lib/libser/publicat/researchguides/nafta/nafta.pdf

68.    WTO/Gatt Research.  http://www.llrx.com/features/wto2.htm

69.    Claire M. Germain, Germain's transnational research: A guide for attorneys (1995).  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF    K85.G47 1991

70.    Guide to international legal research (2d ed. 1993).  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF  JX1291 .G85 1993
 

Bibliographies

        NAFTA

71.    Allan Metz, A NAFTA bibliography (1996). ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL  KDZ944.A12 M48 1996

72.    Alejandro Posadas, Closer Borders: Investment and Law in Mexico After the NAFTA.  A Bibliography with an Index, 6 Duke J. Comp. & Int'l L. 371 (1996).  K4 .U536  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

73.    B.J. Zangari, NAFTA: Issues, industry sector profiles and bibliography (1994).  ANDERSON/GENERAL COLL   HF3211 .N348 1994

74.    Francisco Avalos, NAFTA Primary and Secondary Sources: A Selective Bibliography, 10 Ariz. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 201 (1993).  K1 .R48  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL
 

Statistics

75.    Handbook of North American industry : NAFTA and the economies of its member nations (1998 - ).  ANDERSON/REFERENCE HF1746 .H36 1999
 

        GATT

76.    Select Bibliography: Uruguay Round Issues, 18 Brook. J. Int'l L 197 (1992).  K2.R67  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

77.    Peter M. Kelly & Judy Moore Melton, Select Bibliography: the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 25 Tex. Int'l L.J. 317 (1990).  K24 .E93  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL
 

        CFTA

78.   Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Researching the U.S. - Canada Free Trade Agreement, 18 Int'l J. Legal Info. 17 (1990).
K9 .N8497  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL
 

Focus your research

International trade

79.    International trade reporter [also available on LEXIS: ITRADE;INTRAD].   KF1975 .A8I572 LAW/STACKS

80.    Investment laws of the world.  K1112.A48 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

81.    Commercial laws of the world.  K1004.C65 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

82.    Digest of commercial laws of the world. K1005.4.D54 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

83.    LEXIS: ITRADE

84.    WESTLAW: INT-TP

85.    LEXIS: LAWREV;INTLR
 

Journals devoted to NAFTA, international trade, and international law in general

86.    NAFTA digest.  Z L250.6 N13 ANDERSON/TX DOCUMENTS

87.    NAFTA: Law and business review of the Americas [available on WESTLAW: NAFTALBRA].

88.    United States - Mexico law journal. K25 .N586 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

89.    The transnational lawyer.  K24 .R356 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

90.    World trade and arbitration materials. K27.O767 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

91.    The international lawyer [also available on LEXIS: INTLAW;INTLAW, and on WESTLAW: INTLLAW].  K9 .N86 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

92.    American Journal of International Law [also available on LEXIS: INTLAW;AJIL].  K1 .M454 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL
 

World Wide Web sites

93.    NAFTA Secretariat.  http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/english/index.htm

94.    Office for the Study of U.S.-Mexico Trade and North American Free Trade Agreement Information Center.  http://www.tamiu.edu/coba/usmtr/

95.    NAFTA Customs Web Site.  http://www.nafta-customs.org/

96.    TAMU NAFTA Website.  http://wehner.tamu.edu/mgmt.www/nafta/weblinks/Index.htm

97.    Organization of American States - Trade Unit.  http://www.sice.oas.org/

98.    The United States International Trade Commission Home Page.  http://www.usitc.gov/

99.    United States Trade Representative's Home Page.  http://www.ustr.gov/

100.   World Trade Organization Homepage.  http://www.wto.org/

101.   Lex Mercatoria.  http://www.jus.uio.no/lm/index.html

102.   Researching International Economic Law.  http://www.law.uh.edu/librarians/tmulligan/economic.html

103.   NACLE Web Resources.  http://www.law.uh.edu/librarians/tmulligan/nacle.html
 

NAFTA mailing lists on the Internet

104.   TRADE-NEWS (includes weekly bulletins, _NAFTA Monitor_, _Trade Week_, and _GATT Alert_ from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy) Send the following message to majordomo@igc.apc.org: subscribe trade-news

105.   NAFTA@mexnet.org (Mexico Business Network) Send the following message to listserv@mexnet.org: subscribe nafta Your Name
 

Define a search within a broader context

Catalogs and indexes

106.   University of Houston Library Catalog.  http://library.uh.edu

107.   The Library of Congress Online Catalog.  http://catalog.loc.gov/

108.   Academic Law Libraries.  http://aall.wuacc.edu/sis/allsis/libraries.html

109.    Books in Print [also available on WESTLAW:BIP]. Z1215 .P972 LAW/REFERENCE

110.    GPO Access.  http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/

111.    WESTLAW: TP-ALL

112.    LEXIS: LAWREV;ALLREV

113.    Current Law Index [also available as the Legal Resource Index on WESTLAW:  LRI and on LEXIS: LAWREV;LGLIND, and as INFOTRAC at dedicated workstations on the main level of the law library].
LAW/INDEX TABLE

114.    Index to Legal Periodicals.  LAW/INDEX TABLE
 

World Wide Web search engines

115.    Google.  http://www.google.com

116.    Northernlight.http://www.northernlight.com

117.    MetaCrawler. http://www.go2net.com

118.    Hotbot. http://www.hotbot.com

119.   AltaVista. http://www.altavista.com/
 

Surprise yourself

120.    Browse K1000's to K2400 and KDZ 940's in the foreign and international area of the law library, KF1900's and KF6600 to KF6700's on the main floor of the law library, and HF1746 in the M.D. Anderson Library.

121.    Do a "journal run" on any of the above journals (##77-83).  Find a journal highly relevant to your topic, and scan each issue's table of contents.
 

Update

122.    LEXIS: LEGIS;NAFTA [North American Free Trade Agreement Hotfile.]

123.    Shepard's Law Review Citations. LAW/SHEPARD TABLE

124.    LEXIS: NEWS;CURNWS

125.    WESTLAW: PAPERS

126.    "Treaty Actions," in U.S. Department of State Dispatch.  K25 .N5832 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

127.    "Treaties and Nominations," in Congressional Index.  KF49 .C6 LAW/RESERVE
 

Mexico

Bibliographies and other gateways

128.    Francisco Avalos, The Mexican Legal System (1992). LAW/RESERVE   KGF150.A95 1992

129.    "Mexico," in Thomas H. Reynolds & Arturo A. Flores, Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World.  K38.R49 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF

130.    Indicador Legal Andrade : sobre leyes, reglamentos, acuerdos, decretos, etc.  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF  KGF52.I52

131.    LEXIS: MEXICO

132.    WESTLAW: MEXLAW

133.    Informacion Juridica.  http://info.juridicas.unam.mx
 

Primary sources

Codigos, leyes, etc.

134.    Spanish-language Mexican codes and legislative compilations are shelved by subject under KGF in the compact shelves at the rear of the Foreign and International section of the law library.

135.    Diario Oficial [also available on the InterAm Database from November 1994 forward -- see #133 below, and on LEXIS: MEXICO;MXDO from August 1, 1997].  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL KGF16.D52

136.   The Mexican Civil Code (Michael Wallace Gordon, transl.1980). LAW/FOREIGN-INTL  KGF7611.A291928A613 1980

137.    LEXIS: MEXICO;MXFED  [Mexican federal legislation in Spanish.]

138.    WESTLAW: MEXLAW  [A selection of Mexican codes and legislation in English.]

139.    WESTLAW: CODMEX  [Mexican (Federal District) Civil and Commercial Codes in Spanish.]

140.    WESTLAW: MEXCODE  [Mexican (Federal District) Civil and Commercial Codes in English.]

141.    WESTLAW: ENFLEX-MX  [Mexican environmental, health and safety regulations in English.]

142.    Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos.   http://info4.juridicas.unam.mx/ijure/fed/9/

143.    Legislacion Federal.  http://info4.juridicas.unam.mx/ijure/fed/
 

144.    InterAm Database [Username and password available only to University of Houston faculty and students.  Contact Timothy Mulligan, Foreign & International Law Librarian, by email, or call (713) 743-2330].  http://www.natlaw.com/mexico.htm

145.    Doing business in Mexico.  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL  KGF 333.B86D65

146.   Mexican tax, customs and foreign investment laws. LAW/FOREIGN-INTL KGF4583.C65

147.   Mexico: environmental laws and norms (1994- ).  KGF3421.M49 1994 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

148.   Taxation and investment in Mexico.  KGF 4861.T38 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL
 

Judicial decisions

149.   LEXIS: MEXICO;MXJUR

150.    Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nacion.   http://www.scjn.gob.mx/

151.    Jurisprudencia y Tesis Aisladas.   http://www.scjn.gob.mx/ius/default.asp

152.    Tesis del Seminario Judicial de la Federacion.  http://www.juridicas.unam.mx/infjur/leg/jrs/

Treatises

153.    Spanish-language scholarly treatises and commentaries are shelved by subject under KGF in the compact shelves at the rear of the Foreign and International section of the law library.
 

Law journals and news

154.    Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de Mexico. K19 .D426 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

155.    Boletin Mexicano de Derecho Comparado. K2.O46 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

156.    Revista de Investigaciones Juridicas. LAW/FOREIGN-INTL    K19.D425

157.    LEXIS: MEXICO

158.    Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals. K 33.I38 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL
 

Canada

Encyclopedias

159.    Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, Ontario (3d ed.).  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL   KEO71.C36 3ed
 

Bibliographies and other gateways

160.    Jacqueline R. Castel & Omeela K. Latchman, The Practical Guide to Canadian Legal Research (1993).  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF    KE250.C37 1993

161.    Margaret A. Banks, Using a Law Library (1985).  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF    KE250.B36 1985

162.    "Canada," in Thomas H. Reynolds & Arturo A. Flores, Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World.  K38.R49 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL REF

163.    LEXIS: CANADA

164.    Canadian Abridgment.  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL  KE173

165.    Best Guide to Canadian Legal Research.   http://legalresearch.org
 

Statutes

166.    ACJNet.   http://www.acjnet.org/cdn_law/cdn_law.cfm

167.    Revised Statutes of Canada 1985. LAW/FOREIGN-INTL  KE89 1985

168.    Canada Gazette, Part III.  KE 119 1978 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

169.    Statutes of Canada.  KE2 .C34  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL

170.    LEXIS: CANADA;CANSTA

171.    Canadian Legislation.   http://www.legis.ca/

172.    Consolidated Statutes and Regulations.   http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/index.html
 

Regulations

173.    Consolidated Regulations of Canada, 1978. LAW/FOREIGN-INTL  KE119 1978

174.    Canada Gazette, Part II.  KE 119 1978 LAW/FOREIGN-INTL
 

Judicial decisions  [Our print collection of Canadian case reporters is shelved in the Foreign & International section of the law library under KE.]

175.    Supreme Court of Canada.  http://www.lexum.umontreal.ca/csc-scc/

176.    Federal Court of Canada.  http://www.fja.gc.ca/en/cf/index.html

177.    LEXIS: CANADA;CANCAS
 

Treatises

178.    Free trade law reporter.  LAW/RESERVE  KF6668.C3 1988F73 1989

179.    Doing business in Canada.  LAW/FOREIGN-INTL  KE450.B87D643
 

Law journals and news

180.    WESTLAW: TP-CANADA.