“Laws of South Africa” is a member of the international Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) – http://www.fatlm.org/members/current/. The Law Library of the University of Pretoria, South Africa, has undertaken to place all South African National Legislation free on this website. The…
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Bridge of Spies
Those of us fortunate enough to have attended the Berlin course (our 34th) this past September might remember crossing the Glienicke Bridge, also known as the Bridge of Spies, on our return from our visit to Potsdam. Many notable Cold…
A glance at Law Reporting in the Common Law World…
This past October, the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR) celebrated its 150th anniversary. This organisation has had an important role in the creation and development of an organised body of law reports, and has set a standard and system…
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) makes Case Papers from the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council freely available on BAILII
In a letter of July 19 1950 now in the IALS Archives, George Curtis (Founding Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada) sought help from Professor David Hughes Parry…
My First Experience at IALL Conference
My first participation at the IALL Annual Course exceeded all my expectations. First of all was the challenge of language. I have never had the opportunity to practice my English abroad and the Course presented a great opportunity to do this. Colleagues from IALL…
Funding for Professional Development Opportunities
As you know, IALL offers a professional development bursary every year to law librarians from around the world in an effort to assist with the cost of attending the annual course. (A list of the 2015 recipients, which included local…
Danke schön Berlin!
The 34th annual course in law and law librarianship in Berlin has come to a close. All attendees deserve thanks for making it such a memorable and successful conference, and the wonderful selection of speakers have introduced us to a…
Pure Theory of Legal Festschrifts
The following is not about “basic norms”; rather it focuses on ease of access of formerly deeply buried legal theory contained in various Festschrift volumes. Festschrifts contain original work by scholars honouring a milestone in the life of a brilliant…
TTIP, access to information and the democratic deficit
On Wednesday 8 July, the European Parliament adopted recommendations to the European Commission on the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Anyone reading the commentary online would have been hard-pressed to discern whether this was an instance…
Liaison Librarianship for Law School
Technological developments have impacted academic libraries significantly, whether it is decreased door counts or increased use of virtual resources. This is particularly true in some special discipline libraries like health sciences or engineering libraries, where much of their content is…