In the country of the current President of the European Commission, who has served since 2014, Jean-Claude Juncker, the International Association of Law Libraries is going to enjoy its Annual Course from September 30th to October 3rd, 2018, in cooperation…
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The Michigan Guidelines on International Refugee Protection
According to the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) World Migration Report 2018 “the total number of people estimated to have been forcibly displaced globally is the highest on record,”[1] with 2016 data indicating 22.5 million “refugees” and 40.3 million “internally…
IALL Scholarships Program 2018
IALL began its scholarship or “bursary” program in 2001. Its key purpose is to provide financial assistance in the form of bursaries and stipends to enable law librarians to attend the IALL Annual Course. This year the 37th IALL…
Access to Public Information in Spanish-speaking Countries in the Americas
Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, recognizes access to information as a right every individual possesses.[1] In this sense, universal access to information today is not only enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but has…
Tilling Copyrighted Information in the Creative Commons
We live in an age where we can share information in any form at any time, on diverse platforms. Sharing is a simple and incredibly powerful act but has serious implications in its simplicity. What makes it simple is the internet, the…
French Language Legal Information Workshop in Africa
A workshop for legal documentation professionals from French-speaking Africa (curators, librarians, documentalists, archivists) was organized by the Law Libraries Section of IFLA with the support of IALL, the National Assembly of Côte d’Ivoire and Cairn.info. It was held on 29…
Thank you, Atlanta!
Dear IALL Blog readers, The 36th Annual Course of the International Association of Law Libraries recently took place in Atlanta between Sunday, October 22nd and Thursday, October 26th under the very timely theme of “Civil Rights, Human Rights and Other…
Inaugural Board of Editors for the International Journal of Legal Information announced!
The IALL is pleased to announce that it has appointed its inaugural Editorial Board for the IJLI. The three-member board will consist of the Editor, Mark Engsberg, along with Teresa Miguel-Stearns, director of the Yale Law Library at Yale Law School…
The Vis Moot: Ins & Outs
The 25th Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot has opened registration for teams and will be distributing the problem on 6 October 2017. There are a number of ways for law librarians to get involved in this event …
Law PORT: Free online training resources to improve information literacy skills of law researchers
Two years ago, along with several colleagues in the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies Library (IALS), I began working on a project called Law PORT, funded by the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. We were tasked with the…