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…
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IALL PIL Research Competencies Workshop announcement
IALL is pleased to announce its first interactive workshop, to be held in Barcelona in September this year. The 2 hour workshop is planned for the Sunday morning, before the Official Opening of the IALL Course. It will review a…
The Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL)
As every IALL member knows, there is great value in exchanging views and information with law librarians from other countries. It’s why IALL exists and it’s why the Chinese and American Forum on Legal Information and Law Libraries (CAFLL) was…
The use of expert testimony in the Behring Brevik Case
On 22nd July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik blew up a van filled with explosives near the central government buildings in downtown Oslo and he then proceeded to massacre attendees of the Social Democratic Party’s youth camp at Utøya. In total 77…
Crime against women in India
On 16 December 2012, Delhi experienced an incident of a ghastly gang rape and murder of a 23 year old student in a Delhi bus. The girl was a physiotherapy intern and was on her way back home with male…
Hugo Grotius’ “De Iure Belli ac Pacis”
Hugo Grotius’ “De Iure Belli ac Pacis”/“On the Law of War and Peace” in the History of International Law Collection of the Peace Palace Library, The Hague, The Netherlands Inauguration of the Peace Palace and Donation of the Hugo…
32nd Annual IALL Conference in Barcelona
It’s Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn in the Southern where swallows are seen massing in the early evening in a state of constant flux and fluttering of wings in preparation for their annual migration to warmer climes. There…
A library founder to be proud of…
It is the 400th anniversary of the death in 1613 of Sir Thomas Bodley. The story of his gift of a library to the University of Oxford, following on from the great 16th century libraries that were established or enlarged…
IALL 2013 Web Award Nominations
IALL 2013 Web Award Nominations
FCIL Schaffer Grant Winner
Congratulations to Mr. Bård Sverre Tuseth, 2013 recipient of the FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians, American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Mr. Bård Sverre Tuseth is an Academic Law Librarian at the University of Oslo Library in Norway,…