CALL Continuing Education Committee Presents: FOREIGN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW BROWN BAG Where the Fierce Things Are: People Resources for International Law Research May 8, 2008 Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP Lyonette Louis-Jacques Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law llou@midway.uchicago.edu 773-702-9612 http://www.aallnet.org/sis/fcilsis/Jumpstart.htm http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/db/ref/FCIL.html 1 People in Chicago Anne L. Abramson Irene Berkey Heidi Kuehl Lyonette Louis-Jacques Bill Schwesig Jean Wenger People on Listservs INT-LAW (International Law Librarians List) http://listserver.ciesin.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=int-law LAW-LIB (U.S. law librarians list) http://home.olemiss.edu/~noe/llfaq.html CALL-L (Canadian Association of Law Libraries List) https://listserv.unb.ca/archives/call-l.html LIS-LAW (UK law librarians list) http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/lis-law.html AALL discussion fora (FCIL SIS, PLL SIS, Asian American Law Librarians Caucus (AALLC), Latino Law Librarians Caucus) http://www.aallnet.org/discuss/ http://www.aallnet.org/sis/fcilsis/discussion.html 2 SLA-DLEG (SLA Legal Division list) http://units.sla.org/division/dleg/listserv.htm NEEDSANDOFFERS-L (law library book exchange list, including offers of and requests for foreign and international law monographs and serials) http://lists.washlaw.edu/mailman/listinfo/needsandoffers-l Law Library Associations (other e-mail lists) http://www2.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/iall.html CHINALAW (and other substantive law lists, ABA, AALS, etc.) http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/dclarke/chinalaw/index.htm http://hermes.gwu.edu/archives/chinalaw.html People at Conferences Joint Reception for Attendees from Abroad, FCIL SIS & the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL), AALL Annual Meeting, Sunday, July 13, 2008, 6;30-8:00 p.m. http://www.aallnet.org/events/ ¡Baile! Latino Law Librarians Caucus, AALL Annual Meeting, Friday, July 11, 2008; Business Meeting, Monday, July 14, 2008, 12:00-1:15 p.m. http://www.aallnet.org/caucus/lllc/ Asian American Law Librarians Caucus, AALL Annual Meeting, Business Meeting, Monday, July 14, 2008, 5:00-6:00 p.m.; 20th Anniversary Reception, Monday, July 14, 2008, 6:00-7:00 p.m. http://www.aallnet.org/caucus/aallc/ ¡Baile! International Association of Law Libraries (IALL), San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 30-December 3, 2008 http://www.iall.org/iall2008/ American Society of International Law (ASIL), Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March 25-28, 2009 http://www.asil.org/events/annualmeeting.html 3 People Who Write Research Guides Globalex http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/ LLRX.com http://www.llrx.com/comparative_and_foreign_law.html ERG (Electronic Resource Guide for International Law, ASIL) http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm EISIL (Electronic Information System for International Law, ASIL) http://www.eisil.org/ Syllabi, Teaching Foreign and International Legal Research Interest Group (AALL FCIL SIS) http://www.aallnet.org/sis/fcilsis/syllabi.html People at FCIL-Strong Libraries Foreign Law Collections in U.S. Libraries (Linda Tashbook) http://www.law.pitt.edu/library/international/foreigncollections.php Chicago/Illinois (specialized local foreign and international law collections) Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, California-Berkeley, etc. http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/ East Asian Law Department, University of Washington Gallagher Law Library http://lib.law.washington.edu/eald/eald.html Law Library of Congress (foreign law specialists) http://www.loc.gov/law/ Africana Collection, Northwestern University (Evanston) http://www.library.northwestern.edu/africana/ Center for Research Libraries (CRL) http://www.crl.edu/ 4 People at Workshops, Programs, and Webinars AALL Annual Meeting Programs and Workshops http://www.aallnet.org/events/ CALL Continuing Education Committee, Foreign and International Law Brown Bag http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/call/downloads/foreignBrownBag.pdf Joint Study Institute, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., June 25-28, 2008 http://www.aallnet.org/committee/jsi/ http://www.aallnet.org/committee/jsi/delegates/index.htm AALL Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Audio/Visual Broadcasts http://www.aallnet.org/members/media.asp Law Librarians in Virtual Worlds (distance learning course on best practices for use of Second Life in law libraries) http://vwlawlibrarians.wetpaint.com/ 5 Calendars of Events: International Calendar of Legal Information Events (IALL) http://www.iall.org/calendar/newcal/show.asp AALL Calendar of Events http://www.aallnet.org/calendar/ The International Calendar of Information Science Conferences (ASIS&T) http://icisc.neasist.org/ People Worldwide U.S. Department of State (embassies, country desks, consular offices, etc.) http://www.state.gov/ Jumpstart Your Foreign, Comparative, and International Research: Use People Resources http://aallnet.org/sis/fcilsis/jumpstartnewsite.html Jumpstarting Your FCIL Research Contacts List http://aallnet.org/sis/fcilsis/Protected/Jumpstartcontactsnewsite.html (password-protected; enter Username: fcil ; Password: jumpstart) 6