The IALL Education Committee was originally established to address how best to teach law students about researching public international law (PIL). The challenges faced when researching PIL are common across jurisdictions, and by bringing together colleagues from many parts of the world, a global perspective became possible.

Two workshops, convened at the IALL Annual Courses held in Barcelona in 2013 and Buenos Aires in 2014, led to the first edition of the ‘IALL Guidelines for Public International Law Research Instruction‘, which was duly published on the IALL Education Committee’s web page.

In 2024, the Education Committee revisited the guidelines with a view to updating the content. A new, revised second edition has been created by Sarah Hammond, Legal Research Librarian (Foreign, Comparative and International Law) at the Squire Law Library, University of Cambridge, and is available here:

IALL Public International Law Research Instruction Guidelines (revised October 2024)

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