Since this year it has been legally approved in the Netherlands to make use of drones for agricultural purposes, e.g. for doing investigations on efficient fertilizing. In 2013 we have read that Amazon has considered drones to become very useful…
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New Expanded IALL Scholarship Program
IALL began its scholarship or “bursary” program in 2001; its purpose is to provide financial assistance in the form of bursaries to enable law librarians “to attend . . . [IALL’s] Annual Course in International Law Librarianship that forms the…
A Berlin Diary
In early February I was lucky enough to visit the exciting and vibrant city of Berlin in my role as the IALL Board Liaison Officer for the forthcoming Berlin Conference from Sunday 20th September to Thursday 24th September 2015. I…
The ANZAC Centenary
The 100th Anniversary of ANZAC will be commemorated on 25 April 2015. The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) was first formed in Egypt where the troops were training and from where they were sent to Gallipoli to fight…
“Territorial Law” goes future. Join it.
Since 2010, Berlin State Library has implemented a project digitizing legal historic materials. The Title is: “Deutsches Territorialrecht 1801-1900” or German Territorial Law in the 19th century. The author of this blog piece can see herself as the organizational part…
The Cape Town Convention
In September last year, the third conference on the Cape Town Convention took place at the Law Faculty in Oxford. This treaty deals with international interests in mobile equipment, and was adopted in late 2001. There are three protocols, dealing…
Beyond Basic Black
The accepted norm for dictionaries (juridical or not) has not changed the mission of their creators much since the eighteenth century. Then Dr Johnson thus defined a lexicographer: “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing…
Opening up a country
I have been fortunate to visit a range of law libraries in Burma’/Myanmar last year and again recently. Whilst this is not an ‘international’ topic, I am sharing a brief overview of the experience with IALL colleagues because so little…
Grants for professional development
As you know, IALL offers a professional development bursary every year to law librarians from around the world in an effort to assist with the cost of attending the annual course. (A list of the 2014 recipients, which included local…
Introducing the IALL Public International Law research guidelines
The IALL Education Committee came about from a shared desire to share ideas and thereby improve the teaching of Public International Law research to law students. The information literacy standards established by BIALL and AALL are comprehensive, but general in…