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…
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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…
IALL Scholarships Program 2017
IALL began its scholarship or “bursary” program in 2001. Its key purpose is to provide financial assistance in the form of bursaries to enable law librarians to attend the Association’s Annual Course. IALL Regular bursaries and Members-only bursaries This year…
Understanding OAS Documents
The Organization of American States (“OAS”) offers a variety of thematic reports that address specific issues dealt by the Inter-American Commission (“IAC”) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (“IACHR”). Women Both the IAC and the IACHR and have ruled…
Organizing and participating in the “Open Access to legal knowledge in Africa” workshop in Uganda
This past December, I had the privilege of traveling to Kampala, Uganda and assisting with a workshop on Open Access to legal knowledge in Africa. It was for law librarians in Anglophone Africa. The workshop was organized through the International…
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the U.S.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a free trade agreement between 12 countries in the Asia Pacific region—Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. The agreement was signed by the…
New French Law for a Digital Republic: a step towards open access and much more!
The French Law for a Digital Republic (LDR), loi pour une république numérique was promulgated on October 7 and has become officially “loi 2016-1321 du 7 octobre 2016”. It is also known as loi Lemaire after Axelle Lemaire, the Deputy…
It’s IALL membership renewal time!
This is a reminder to IALL members to renew your IALL membership for 2017 if you haven’t done so already and encourage your work colleagues to join as well! The IALL membership year runs from 1st January through 31st December…