I. Turkish Commercial Code in General Turkish Maritime Law domestically regulated under the fifth book of Turkish Commercial Code, No 6102 (“TCC”). TCC has been accepted by Turkish Parliament on January 13, 2011 and has been in force since July 1, 2012.…
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Session recaps from IALL 2014 in Buenos Aires
The Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Group of the American Association of Law Libraries (FCIL-SIS) has published excellent recaps of some of the sessions that were part of the the 33rd Annual Course on International Law and Legal Information. The…
¡Muchas gracias Buenos Aires!
The 33rd annual course in law and law librarianship in Buenos Aires has come to a close. I want to take this opportunity to thank all attendees for making it such a memorable and successful conference. We all owe our…
2013 Membership Statistics by Jurisdiction and Membership Level
The International Association of Law Libraries is a diverse, non-profit organization of law librarians, academics, practitioners, publishers, and students. In 2013 the IALL membership includes 399individuals and institutions representing 50countries from all continents except Antarctica. Below is a membership breakdown…
BarNet/JADE – Free Australian Caselaw
The arena of access to justice through freely available Australian legal resources has been served admirably for some time through the services of AustLII, a site which is well known to many IALL members. However, a new service is now…
Apps for commercial databases
At the 103th German Library Congress in Bremen, the German Association of Law Libraries (AjBD – Arbeitsgemeinschaft für juristisches Bibliotheks- und Dokumentationswesen) had organized a Science Slam on apps from commercial database providers and publishing houses. The participants were: Anton…
Japanese Laws in Translation
Translation of the laws and information about the legal systems of the countries of the world is a time-consuming and challenging endeavor, but it is also one of the keys to enabling those in other jurisdictions to research foreign and…
Cornell Fellowship Brings Foreign Law Librarians to the United States
While more established and well known funding opportunities for foreign law librarians have existed for some time to attend conferences (e.g., the IALL bursary and AALL FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians), new funding is continuing to build upon…
A MOOC Point
Universities in North America are currently infatuated with MOOCs. Law Schools are no different. “MOOC” stands for Massive Open Online Course and MOOCs are just that: open-enrollment online courses which can reach tens of thousands and even sometimes over one…
Updating and Rebuilding of FLAG, the Foreign Law Guide
The project to update and rebuild FLAG, the Foreign Law Guide, has been completed in June 2014. You can now search the updated and rebuilt database! FLAG is a guide to collections of foreign and international law held in UK…