At Brooklyn Law School, we are still coping with disruptions in services caused by the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Also, we are helping many attorneys who temporarily have no offices. Thus, this is a brief report on the July 2001 FCIL-SIS Teaching International and Foreign Law Research Interest Group meeting.

The "Teaching" Interest Group meeting offered a further opportunity for dynamic AALL program speakers Peter Clinch, Irene Good, John Nan, Victoria Szymczak and Steven Whittle to discuss IFL and immigration law teaching techniques and sources. See: Peter Clinch, text of slide presentation, AALL Educational Program and Handout Materials, July 17, 2001, pp. 67-71 and Foreign Law Guide Project (FLAG) http://ials.sas.ac.uk/library/flag/flag.htm

Irene Good, Immigration Law Guided Research Seminar http://www2.bc.edu/~goodi/

John Nann & Victoria Szymczak, Mastering the Matrix: Teaching (Law) with Technology http://brkl.brooklaw.edu/screens/matrix.html

Steven Whittle, "Pathfinding and Prospecting: Discovering Law on the Web with the Social Science Information Gateway," AALL Educational Program Handout Materials, July 17, 2001, pp. 72-79 and SOSIG: Site Map http://www.sosig.ac.uk/about_us/sitemap.html.

The turnout for the "Teaching" IG meeting was extraordinary-in addition to many beloved Section members, participants included: Sania Battalova, Schaffer Grant recipient; Priscilla Leung, Director, Isinolaw Research Centre, Hong Kong; Caron Rollins, Associate Law Librarian, Priestly Law Library, University of Victoria; Steve Young, RIPS section leader; and Jules Winterton, Librarian and Deputy Director, University of London, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. Dr. Leung inspired us by discussing her fund raising and development efforts regarding http://www.isinolaw.com. FCIL-SIS's Secretary, Mirela Roznovschi, highlighted new material available through http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/ and http://www.llrx.com. Ms. Roznovschi also explained that her new book, Toward a Cyberlegal Culture (Transnational Publishers, 2001), includes modules for teaching online legal research and contains a catalog of high quality international and foreign law databases. FCIL-SIS Education Committee Co-Chair Dennis Sears noted that Legal Reference Services Quarterly, v. 19, No. 3/4 2001, focuses on teaching legal research and providing access to electronic sources. Ms. Szymczak stated that she is adding links to law librarians' legal research course pages and teaching materials at http://brkl.brooklaw.edu/screens/fcilsis.html. If you wish to share your materials through the FCIL-SIS Teaching Resources page, please contact Ms. Szymczak: vszymc@brooklaw.edu.

FCIL-SIS greatly appreciates the support for this "Teaching" IG meeting provided by Thomas Daniel, Raul Lopez, Gayle Lynn-Nelson and all at LexisNexis™. Thank you, LexisNexis™ Librarian Relations Group, for assisting your TRIALL and TRIPLL veterans!

Note: If you wish to view Davis & Szymczak, International and Foreign Law Research (Fall 2001 course home page): access http://webcourses.lexisnexis.com > click: Login > click: Browse Course Catalog > click: LexisNexis > click: Enroll > click: Preview > in COURSE SEARCH box, type: international and foreign law research > click: Preview. Remember-this page is a work in progress.