Over the past two years the Wissenschaftsrat (German Council of Science and Humanities) has evaluated in fundamental analysis the structures of legal scholarship in Germany. As a result a bundle of recommendations has been adopted with a special focus on…
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The FLAG Rebuild Project
Many libraries throughout the UK are helping to update FLAG – the Foreign Law Guide – this year. The project team to update and rebuild FLAG is based at IALS, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Team members are…
The origins of IALL
Recently I came across a few documents from the University of Oslo archives that illustrate the start of the International Association of Law Libraries. The most interesting was a letter dated February 24th 1959 from William R. Roalfe inviting representatives…
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 2013 recipients is available here.) …
Thank you Barcelona
Having just returned from the 32. annual course in law and law librarianship in Barcelona I want to take this opportunity to thank those who attended and made it such a memorable and successful conference. We all owe our deepest…
Foreign Law Guide
We all have trusted research tools that we use frequently in our work. For many of us, Foreign Law Guide (“FLG”) is one of these standard resources and it has now entered a new era. A Bit of History Tom…
2012 Membership Statistics
2012 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 2012, the Association collected dues from 379 members representing 47 countries from…
The US legal system and same-sex marriage
The topic of same-sex marriage in the US provides a way to explore the complexity of the US legal system, along with some legal research resources. As a federal system, the US has national and state laws covering marriage. Although…
Highlight on Asia-specific subscription based databases
I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight a few Asia-specific subscription based databases. Chancery Law Chronicles (Bangladesh), http://www.clcbd.org/ As the first Bangladesh online case law database, CLC has its work cut out to catch up with developing its…
German Patients' Rights Act
On 26th February 2013 the German Patients’ Rights Act entered into force. The new law improves the protection of patients’ rights and makes it much easier to understand. The rules create the conditions for the legal relations between doctors and…