The Foreign, Comparative and International Law SIS Executive Committee presents the following programs during the Annual Meeting in San Antonio:
Introduction to Latin American Legal Systems
Monday, July 18, 2005 from 5:15 - 6:15 p.m.
Speakers: Professor Stephen Zamora and Assistant Professor Antonio Gidi, both from Houston University.
Other substantive FCIL programming will be held in FCIL Interest Group meetings:
Looking Eastward: Researching Asian Trade Law
Asian Law Interest Group Business Meeting Wednesday, July 20, 2005, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Speaker: Chenglin Liu, Adjunct Professor of Law, Foreign and International Law Librarian at the University of Houston Law Center, and the IG Chair.
CIS and Eastern European Law Interest Group, Sunday, July 17, 2005, 12:15 - 1:15 p.m.
Featured speaker: Irma Aladashvili, Coordinator of the Law library and Information Centre for the Georgian Young Lawyer's Association in Tbilisi, Georgia.
New Portals to Foreign and International Law
Electronic Issues Interest Group Business Meeting, Saturday, July 16, 2005, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Speakers: Marylin Raisch, International and Foreign Law Librarian at Georgetown University Law Libraries and the IG Chair; Mirela Roznovschi, Reference Librarian for International and Foreign Law at New York University Law Library; Emily Allbon, Law Librarian from the City University, London, England (she received the Betty Moys Award 2004 for her work on a student legal portal (www.lawbore.net/) and other special guests!
New Developments in African Legal Systems: Ghana
African Law Interest Group Business Meeting, Sunday, July 17, 2005, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Speaker: Victor Essien, International Law Librarian & Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, and African Law Interest Group Chair.
Selectors of Foreign Law in Foreign Languages
Publication Committee Business Meeting, Monday, July 18, 2005, 9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Anne Burnett, Reference/Foreign & International Law Librarian at the University of Georgia Law Library; Linda Tashbook, Foreign International Comparative Law Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh Barco Law Library; and Dan Wade, Associate Librarian for Foreign & International Law and Lecturer at the Yale Law Library will moderate a gathering of foreign law librarians and librarians in charge with acquisition of foreign law in the entire country. The meeting is being sponsored by the Northeast Foreign Law Librarians Cooperative Group.
Panel on FCIL Librarianship
Teaching Foreign and International Research Interest Group, Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
This session moderated by Patricia A. Kasting, Reference Librarian at Hofstra University Law School Library and Mary Rumsey, Foreign, Comparative, & International Law Librarian at the University of Minnesota Law Library will be devoted to a question-and-answer gathering on FCIL librarianship, aimed at people interested in becoming FCIL librarians or learning more about FCIL librarianship.