Past Programs and SIS History

CENTENNIAL 2006:

FCIL-SIS Timeline - A timeline of FCIL-SIS events from 1985 to the present and appendixes of FCIL chairs, Newsletter Editors, and Foreign Librarian's Grant Recipients.

Oral Histories of FCIL-SIS members:

1. Francisco Avalos - Foreign and International Law Librarian at the College of Law at University of Arizona

2. Tim Kearley - Director of the Law Library at the University of Wyoming George W. Hopper Law Library

3. Marta Tarnawsky - Biddell Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Law School

4. Dan Wade - Librarian for Foreign and International Law, Yale Law Library

5. Lyonette Louis-Jacques - Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library

PAST PROGRAMS:

Listed below is an outline of the programs that have been sponsored by the Foreign, Comparative & International Law Special Interest Section in the past few years. For 1996 and 1997, all of the program proposals submitted (whether selected or not) have been listed. For more information on selected programs prior to 1995, see Houdek and Goldner, AALL Annual Meeting: An Annotated Index of the Recordings (Littleton, CO: F.B. Rothman, 1989-).

2007 Annual Meeting (New Orleans)
2006 Annual Meeting (St. Louis)
2005 Annual Meeting (San Antonio)
2004 Annual Meeting (Boston)
2003 Annual Meeting (Seattle)
2002 Annual Meeting (Orlando)
2001 Annual Meeting (Minneapolis)
2000 Annual Meeting (Philadelphia)
1999 Annual Meeting (Washington, D.C.)
1998 Annual Meeting (Anaheim)
1997 Annual Meeting (Baltimore)
1996 Annual Meeting (Indianapolis)
1995 Annual Meeting & National Conference on Legal Information Issues (Pittsburgh)

2007 Annual Meeting (New Orleans)

• Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons
• De-coding Civil Codes: Appreciating Napolean's Code and its Legacy
• Rome: The Power of Film to Teach Foundations of Roman and Civil Law
• Globalization Moved My Cheese: Or, How Do I Find International Law? - Wenger's International Law Bibliography
• A Closer Look: Uncovering the Spanish Roots of the Louisiana Civil Code
• LC's Classification Web: An Electronic Gateway to Indigenous Government and Law in the Americas

2006 Annual Meeting (St. Louis)

• Developing Foreign, Comparative and International Law Collections: Sources, Strategies and Techniques
• Confronting Atrocities: Issues and Resources (FCIL-SIS Roundtable)
• Do We Have the Numbers? Empirical Research in Law - International Law as a Case Study
• International Law in the Heartland: Implications for Consular Rights of Foreign Nationals
• International Law in the Heartland: Implications for Consular Rights of Foreign Nationals
• Pioneering Global Health Law: Pandemics, Trends, and Research Strategies
• Post-Soviet Law: Sources and Access (FCIL-SIS Forum)
• International Legal Process: The Crime of Terrorism
• Trading Spaces: International Law Library Exchanges and Visits
• Schaffer Grant Recipient Hind Al-Helaly's AALL presentation and bibliography of Egyptian Legal System resources.
  

2005 Annual Meeting (San Antonio)
New Vistas and Values for Europe: Strategies for Researching European Law (all-day workshop)

• Treaty-Making--Really, Part II
• Mexican Americans and the Law
• Navigating the Maze of U.S. Treaty Research - Strategies for Finding Treaties, Treaty Actions and Interpretive Materials
• Researching International Marine Environmental Law -Aru's Researching International Marine Law Bibliography

2004 Annual Meeting (Boston)
Shopping in the Global Marketplace: Information Sources for International Trade (all-day workshop)

• Treaty-Making--Really
• Globalization Moved My Cheese: Or, How Do I Find Foreign Law? - Wenger's Foreign Law Bibliography
• A Current Appraisal of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Legal Research
• The European Union At A Crossroads: Freedoms In A Federated Europe
• Hijab, Jihad, Riba and Hudud: Islamic Law in the 21st Century
• Envision New Possibilities for Research Training and Collections for Foreign-Trained Lawyers and International LLM Students

2003 Annual Meeting (Seattle)
The Role of the Council of Europe: Envision Constitutional Reform and Human Rights in the Newer Member States

• Networking to the Future: The CISG Database as a Paradigm of Scholarly Web Publishing
• All Aboard: Maritime Law: U.S., Canadian and Global Issues
• Access to American Indian Law Information: Options Today, Envisioning Tomorrow
• Special Event: The Legal and Political System of Indonesia

2002 Annual Meeting (Orlando)

• Devolution in the United Kingdom: A Revolution in Online Legal Research
• Connecting with the Worldwide Effort to Combat Crimes Against Humanity: The Creation of the International Criminal Court
• International Law/International Relations Connection - Internationalizing Law Library Connections
• Government Documents Around the World: Access Policies and Strategies of Disclosure

2001 Annual Meeting (Minneapolis)

• The New Reality of a United Germany: German Legal Sources and Research Strategies, pt. 1
• The New Reality of a United Germany: German Legal Sources and Research Strategies, pt. 2
• Mastering The Matrix: Teaching with Technology
• Global Citizens: The Immigration Law Research Challenge
• New Realities in Data Protection: The Transatlantic Debate (co-sponsored w/ AALL Government Relations Committee)
• Global Trade: Key WTO Issues and WTO/GATT Research
• New Realities for Developing Global Collections: New Approaches and Cooperative Projects
• Prometheus UNBound: ?Firing Up? United Nations Legal Researchers
• Special Event: BIALL Chair Furlong on the Irish Legal System

2000 Annual Meeting (Philadelphia)

• Workshop: Gateway to Treaty Research in the Digital Age
• Passeport pour la France, pt. 1
• Passeport pour la France, pt. 2
• Building New Gateways: Research Instruction for Foreign-Trained Lawyers & Law Students
• New Look to an Old Subject: Electronic Resources in English Legal Research
• The Intersection of Public & Private International Law in a Global Economy
• Gateway to China: Searching & Finding in Chinese
• Passeport Intellectuel pour la Louisiane et le Quebec

1999 Annual Meeting (Washington, D.C.)

• Cuban Legal and Political Systems
• From Russia with Law: Research in the Laws of the Russian Federation and Newly Independent States
• Information Policy at the Crossroads: The Challenge of Globalization
• Keeping Art or Sending it Back
• Official Gazettes: The Ultimate Source for Foreign Statutes
• Our Neighbors to the North & South: the Legal Systems of Canada and Mexico
• The Transatlantic World: The Law from the English Civil War to the Early 18th Century

1998 Annual Meeting (Anaheim)

• Approaching the New Horizon: Foreign and International Research Instruction in the Law School and Law Firm
• Discovering A New Horizon for Government Information Resources: using U.S. Government Publications for International Research
• Fifty Years after Nuremberg and Tokyo: The Future of International and Domestic Prosecutions of War Crimes
• The Guiding Principles of the 21st Century: The 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• The Information Society: European Union Documents in the United States
• Co-sponsored Program: Coke's World: The Law in the Renaissance (Navigating the Law through the Ages Part 2)

1997 Annual Meeting (Baltimore)

• International Legal Regimes and their Capture in Classes KZ-JZ: Shifting Boundaries, Changing Traditional Jurisdiction.*
• The Civil Law Tradition: What It Is, How It Compares to Common Law, and How to Research It.
• Women in International Law: Rape as a War Crime.
• Legal Aspects of Returning Cultural Property to Their Original Owners.
• Supporting Legal Information Needs of Evolving Democracies.
• Teaching Navigational Skills for Foreign Waters: Foreign and International Research Instruction on the Law School and Law Firm.
• Co-sponsored PastPrograms:
  • International Legal Regimes: New International Institutions for Conflict Regulation. *
  • Around the World in Eighty Minutes (OBS SIS). *
  • The Next Wave of International Intellectual Property Law: the WIPO, the WTO, and the New Berne Protocol (Copyright Committee). *
  • Navigating the Law through the Ages: the Roots of the Common Law and Civil Law Traditions (Legal History SIS). *

1996 Annual Meeting (Indianapolis)

• Human Rights Worldwide: When the Message is Hard to Deliver -- Refugees, Women, and Sexual Minorities (three part program).*
• Doing Business in Africa. *
• New Developments in French Law.
• Filtering the Net.
• Fashion/Style and the Law.
• Co-sponsored programs:
  • The Global Harmonization of Copyrights Laws (Copyright Committee). *
  • Solving Foreign and International Requests with Sources in Your Library (Reader Services SIS). *
  • Hong Kong 1997 (Asian/American Law Librarians Caucus). *

1995 Annual Meeting & National Conference on Legal Information Issues (selected programs only) (Pittsburgh)

• Building the Global Law Library.
• International Justice: How Courts Worldwide Disseminate Information.
• Global Lawyers, Global Librarians.
• A Global Information Superhighway?; The Open Road, Speed Bumps, and Dangerous Curves.
• Human Rights Resources and Humanitarian Field Organizations: The Hidden Resources (cosponsored with Reader Services SIS).

* denotes selected programs