By David GeeIALL Secretary Following an online electoral ballot, I am pleased to be able to announce the names of the newly-elected Officers and Board Members of the 2022-2025 Board of Directors. These Officers and Board Members will take over…
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2022 Annual Course Scholarships
By Kurt CarrollIALL President The IALL scholarships program resumes this year, marking the return of in-person conferences. The program will provide financial assistance in the form of bursaries to assist law librarians in attending the IALL’s 40th Annual Course “U.S.…
Law and Literature
By Heather CaseyThe author is a member of the IALL Board of Directors I’ve been thinking a lot lately about all the ways law permeates my life. Though I do my best to keep my work and personal lives separate,…
Notification of the Nominating Committee’s slate of candidates for the 2022 IALL Election
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…
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…