WASHINGTON, D.C. /Publishers Newswire/ — The Department of State is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of the 2010 Digest of United States Practice in International Law, covering developments during 2010. This edition of the Digest is available electronically on the State Department’s website (www.state.gov/s/l/c8183.htm) and will be available in print on December 30, 2011.
The Digest traces its history back to an 1877 treatise by John Cadwalader, which was followed by multi-volume encyclopedias covering selected areas of international law. The Digest later came to be known to many as “Whiteman’s” after Marjorie Whiteman, the 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.
Although publication was temporarily suspended after 1988, the office resumed publication in 2000 and has since produced volumes covering 1989 through 2010. A cumulative index covering 1989-2006 was published in 2007, and an updated edition of that index, covering 1989-2008, was published in 2010.
The Digest, edited by 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 2004-2010 and the updated 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, D.C. 20007; contact William Mays, Publications Department, 1-202-247-6006 (phone), 1-202-247-6010 (fax).
