Organization of American States

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Contents 1 General Rule 2 Inter-American Court of Human Rights 2.1 Contentious Cases 2.2 Advisory Opinions 2.3 Dissenting Judgments

General Rule

Rule	The following format should be used: <Issuing Body>, <Title>, <Official Records designation with document number> (<Year>) <Pinpoint>. When citing a document number, always abbreviate it to OAE, not OAS.
Example	Inter-American Commission for Human Rights, Report on the Situation of Human Rights in Chile, OAE/SerL/V/II.66 (1985) 82.

Location

• The OAS is the Organization of American States.

• Homepage: http://www.oas.org

• Disputes decided under the OAS Trade Division can be found at:

http://www.sice.oas.org/DISPUTE/nafdispe.asp

Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Contentious Cases

Rule	For contentious cases, the following form should be used: <Parties names separated by ‘v’> [<Year>] Inter-Am Court HR (ser <x>) No <no> <Pinpoint> ('<Abbreviated case name>').

Advisory Opinions

Rule	For advisory opinions, the following form should be used: Inter-American Court of Human Rights, <Title> (Advisory Opinion) <Document no> (ser <x>) (<Year>).

Dissenting Judgments

Rule	For dissenting opinions, the following form should be used: <Parties names separated by ‘v’> [<Year>] Inter-Am Court HR (ser <x>) No <no> <Pinpoint> <(Dissenting Opinion of Judge(s) <Judge(s) Name(s)>)> ('<Abbreviated case name>').

NOTE:

• Unlike other OAS documents, the series number is not indicated within the document number.
• Therefore, be sure indicate this in parentheses after the document number.

NOTE:

• The Inter-American Court of Human Rights is not to be confused with the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights.

• The Inter-American Court of Human Rights should be referred to as the 'IACHR' in all citations.
• An alternative abbreviation must be used for the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights.

Location

• Reports of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights are published in three series:

• Series A: Advisory Opinions and Judgments
• Series B: Pleadings, Oral Arguments, Documents
• Series C: Decisions, Judgments

• The Annual Report is available in hard copy at UniM Law K 5 G1 INTE.

• Reports are also available on the website:

• [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html

• http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html]

• Reports of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights are available on the website and are arranged either by year or by country:

• http://www.cidh.oas.org/DefaultE.htm

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