As directed by Article VII, Section 3 of the IALL Constitution, I am hereby submitting notice of the slate of candidates selected by the IALL Nominating Committee to all members for the required 60 days from the date of this…
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Legal Aid – A Global Component of Access to Justice
By: Jean M. Wenger, Director of the Law Library/Senior LecturerChicago-Kent College of Law Library, Chicago, Illinois, USAThe author is a member of the IALL Board of Directors Access to justice is integral to the rule of law. Access to justice…
My first IALL Conference
By: Tormod Andersen, Academic LibrarianLaw Library, University of Oslo The 39th Annual Course of the International Association of Law Libraries was presented last month. As a first-time participant and a completely new member of IALL I would therefor like to…
Merci Toulouse
By Kurt Carroll, IALL President Our association’s long planned 39th annual course was presented earlier this month. A first for IALL, the course was presented virtually from Toulouse, France with the theme The Triptych: National, European, and International Law, the…
Regional languages in Europe and France: united in linguistic diversity
By:Michel Fraysse, Head of Research Support Department, Toulouse Capitole University Libraries « Estacion venenta, Capitòli, atencion, davalada a esquèrra » (1) In the Toulouse metro, a foreign visitor may be surprised to hear this announcement in a mysterious language. “What is this…
Annotated Bibliography of Covid-19 Legal Litterature
Beginnings In mid-March 2020, as we slowly began to comprehend that Covid-19 really was a big thing, my university, the University of Melbourne, almost overnight completely shut down its physical campus and we began what would be nearly a year…
Presidential Elections in France – How does it all work?
As we prepare for the 39th Annual Course of the International Association of Libraries, which will be presented virtually from Toulouse, France in October, it seems appropriate to take a look at current legal issues in France. There are numerous…
A Paradigm Shift From “Ethics” To “Law” Regarding AI Regulations
AI Effect AI is everywhere! It actually characterises digital age. We call it “AI Age”. AI systems[1] have direct effect on digital transformation, data driven economy, individual life, society at large and on business models. We could classify its effect…
Women’s Suffrage: A Celebration and a Global Perspective
2020 marked the centennial of the ratification of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment guarantees American women that their right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on…
The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, the Only Multilingual Index to Legal Scholarship
As the field of law evolves to become ever more global, legal information professionals employed by law firms and government agencies increasingly support the work of multilingual attorneys whose legal practices are transnational in scope. Similarly, academic law librarians are…