In 2020, the FCIL-SIS introduced three new recognitions to honor and celebrate our members and their contributions.
The Newsletter Article of the Year
This recognition honors an FCIL-SIS member who contributes an outstanding article to the FCIL-SIS Newsletter during the previous year.
| Year | Recipients |
| 2025 | Janet Kearney, Janet’s Good but Not Well Organized or Methodical Bibliography, FCIL-SIS Newsletter, Vol. 39, No. 2, at 21-23 and for her work coordinating the February 2025 Mardi Gras-themed issue more broadly. |
| 2024 | Susan Gualtier, Decolonizing a Human Rights Research Course: First Steps, FCIL-SIS Newsletter, Vol. 38, No. 2, at 8 (February 2024). |
| 2023 | Erin Gow, Resource Reviews: Legislation.gov.uk, FCIL Newsletter, Vol. 37, No. 2 (February 2023) |
| 2022 | Janet Kearney, Work-in-Progress: A Research Framework in FCIL Teaching?, FCIL Newsletter, Vol. 36, Issue 2 (February 2022) |
| 2021 | Caitlin Hunter, Helping Foreign Students Thrive in U.S. Law Schools, FCIL Newsletter, Vol. 34, Issue 2 (February 2020) |
| 2020 | Julienne E. Grant, An Introduction to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s Legal Heritage & Carpenter v. Murphy, FCIL Newsletter, Vol. 33, Issue 3 (May 2019) |
THE BLOG POST OF THE YEAR
This recognition honors an AALL member who contributes an outstanding blog post to the DipLawMatic Dialogues blog during the previous year.
| Year | Recipients |
| 2025 | Sarah Martin, Hidden Gems of the LA Law Library: Treasure Hunting in the Stacks (June 5, 2024) |
| 2024 | Juan-Andrés Fuentes, A View from the Periphery Series (August 2023-) |
| 2023 | Marcelo Rodríguez, Through the FCIL Lens Series (February 2022 – February 2023) |
| 2022 | Jonathan Pratter, From the Reference Desk Series (March 2022 – June 16, 2022) |
| 2021 | Amy Flick, From the Reference Desk Column (2019-) |
| 2020 | Alison Shea, Locating EU and UK Guidance on Brexit (February 27, 2019) |
COMMITTEE/INTEREST GROUP PROJECT OF THE YEAR
This recognition honors the FCIL-SIS committee or Interest Group that produces an outstanding project for the benefit of the FCIL-SIS and /or AALL members during the previous year.
| Year | Recipients |
| 2025 | The FCIL-SIS Newsletter Committee for their February 2025 Mardi Gras themed issue |
| 2024 | FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians – Selection Committee for navigating the extremely challenging visa and travel situation during COVID to continue to welcome foreign law librarians and enable FCIL-SIS members to learn about law librarianship around the world. |
| 2023 | FCIL-SIS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee for the What in the World Webinar Series (February 2023 – March 2023) |
| 2022 | FCIL-SIS Customary and Religious Law Interest Group (CARLIG) webinar titled Canon Law 101 and Get Refusal & Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community. |
| 2021 | FCIL-SIS Asian Law IG for its collaborative effort monitoring legal responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Asia. |
| 2020 | FCIL-SIS Latin American Law IG for its collaboration with the Latino Caucus to Monitor Legal Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean. |