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Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Section / American Association of Law Libraries Volume 9 May 1995 Number 3

Message from the Chair by Lyonette Louis-Jacques University of Chicago Law Library

This will be my last message as Chair of educational and fun as I learned even more the FCIL SIS. And to think this all started about this SIS, of which I have always been about a year ago! I have learned a lot about proud and happy to be an active participant. As how the FCIL SIS fits in the AALL structure Chair, I received regular mailings from AALL in the past year and what makes it work. We Headquarters informing me on legislative are a very special group! The SIS came into activities, Executive Board meetings, AALL existence in 1985 and now, in its tenth year, nominations, and, asking me to fill out forms, has 364 members in an AALL organization answer questions, and provide other that has over 5000 members. And since it was information. I worked with AALL HQ to get started, the FCIL SIS has had strong leaders the best schedule I could for the FCIL SIS that put into place certain traditions which I committee and working group meetings for the have tried to uphold, as well as meet the AALL annual meeting in Pittsburgh, given the requirements of AALL. time constraints of the National Conference on Needless to say, this year has been Legal Information Issues. Unfortunately, most of the working group meetings were shortened Join Us Monday for Lunch to 45 minutes long this year as requested by AALL HQ in order to accommodate the National Conference on Legal Information's Join your fellow FCIL SIS members at schedule, but will be back to their normal one- the President's Luncheon on Monday! It is hour length next year-at least one hour is a good way to learn what is happening in needed to get real work done at the group our respective libraries and to meet new meetings. and not-so-new librarians interested in foreign and international law. Significant others are welcome to join us as well. INSIDE When you enter the banquet hall, look for the United Nations flag that will mark the Pittsburgh::Calendar ... p. 4 spot of our reserved tables. It is a symbol SIS Nominees .- p. 5 of our longstanding tradition to join FOIL People in the News ... P. 5 together at this time during the Annual Pittsbu gh Preview ... p. 6,

Meeting. IALL.Vienna Program - .p. 10 To reserve your place at the table, SCALL Conference Report.: p.P, 1 please leave a message for Telle Zoller at Cooperative Cataloging..p 12 608-262-7761, send a fax to 608-262- What's New. on INT-LAW .,, P. 14 2775, or post an e-mail message to S18 Election. Results .. .20 [email protected] by July 5. FCIL Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter May 1995 The working groups were started by Dan Wade pioneered when he was FCIL SIS chair Wade when he was chair and have become one were on African Law, Asian Law, Latin of the most useful activities for SIS members American Law, Soviet Law (which has become to participate in at the AALL annual meetings. CIS & East European Law), and Teaching This is where, for one hour, you can consult Foreign and International Law. Mila Rush with colleagues face-to-face about day-to-day, added the Electronic Issues and Processing practical problems having to do with collection Issues working groups when she was chair of development, cataloging, publishers, new the SIS (and several special committees). And I developments, teaching, etc., related to foreign, started the International Issues working group, comparative, and international legal resources which has an International Organiza- in print and electronic format. You have time tions/Human Rights sub-group-4his group had to ask questions and share information with its first meeting informally in 1994 in Seattle. other foreign law librarians, meet people in the So now the FCIL SIS benefits from having profession, and put a face to that name you've nine working groups in which to exchange seen on the Internet or the person you've information about publications, vendors, talked to on the phone. And you get real work courses, and any new developments, and where done and have information to bring back to we can seek the collective wisdom of your institution. colleagues who have experienced similar The original five working groups that Dan problems. In addition to scheduling the working groups, as Chair, I answered questions HWkIseter:,is published in October, concerning signs for the FCIL SIS meetings, hors d'oeuvres and beverages for the FCIL SIS Februaryj:And :May by the Foreign, Comparative, Meeting and Reception for Attendees Section~ of Business and International Law Special Interest From Abroad (quite a challenge since I'm the American Association of Law Libraries. The pretty much a fast-food person!), having an main goal of this Section is ht serve as a forum FCIL SIS table in the Exhibit Hall and the for the -exchange of ideas ond information on CONELL (Conference of Newer Law l foreign, comparative and intri naional law, and to Librarians) Marketplace (both to introduce rresn i ebers i1t10ests.: and concefrns within AALL members to the activities of the SIS and AALL" ... to inform them about the work of foreign and The Hesefri etfe omembers of the: international law librarians), etc. I also attended FCIL SIS.1 I s available forta ' exchangae of ide-as:: functions of the American Society of and. information." International Law (ASIL) and the International ::Tel...... :-: ~.03 : .. .:( ::.3...... :.:. : : i;i ..::;: Association of Law Libraries (IALL)--two Edlitor: Kenneth Rudolf organizations which are useful for work in Yo le: Low School- Library foreign law librarianship. And I continued my the INT-LAW list on Box 208215 contributions to listserv@vm 1.spcs.umn.edu-a quick, 127VWal1 Street electronic means of exchanging information New 'Haven~CT 06520 with foreign law librarians and others Te. (203P) 432-1606 worldwide. Fax. (203) 432-9692 Some of the ongoing traditions which have Bitnet:::: rudodif@yalevm made the SIS so wonderful to be part of :.Internet [email protected] include joining other FCIL SIS members at reserved tables at the President's Luncheon on Copy Wdion Carmen Valero Monday during the Annual Meeting (started by May 1995 FCIL Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter Dan Wade), the Adopt-a-Flag program (started Institute I Foreign Legal Systems by Mila Rush)-look for the flags at the FCIL (February 1993) SIS table in the Exhibit Hall-and the Institute II International Organizations reception for attendees from abroad. The (July 1993) reception, started by Jon Pratter, is a great Institute III Transnational Legal opportunity to welcome and meet librarians Transactions (July 1994) from overseas who are attending the Annual Institute IV International Business Law: Meeting. It is a very special event that I hope Legal Transactions in a all FCIL SIS members at the meeting are able Global Economy (July to attend. 1995) These traditions continue, and some new Institute V Public International Law (July ones are beginning. Thanks to Ken Rudolf, 1996) Mark Folmsbee, Washburn University Law School, and others, the FCIL Newsletter is now The sequence is almost completed, but luckily on the World Wide Web! The URL (Uniform for those who missed the previous institutes, Resource Locator) is: papers based on each institute are being published by Oceana! http://www.law.wuacc/fcil/newsl.html All in all, a wonderful year and a bright Internet access will broaden the exposure future! I appointed a Nominations Committee worldwide to the work of our SIS as well as comprising Tim Kearley (chair), Dan Wade, provide ready access to the contents of the and Mila Rush to select a Vice-Chair/Chair- FCIL Newsletter when the paper copy is not Elect and a Secretary/Treasurer for the FCIL available. In addition to improved access, the SIS. They selected two members who have FCIL Newsletter now has columnists to report contributed greatly to the SIS-Margareta on news of our members' professional Horiba and Radu Popa. I thank the activities and technical processing issues. Nominations Committee for their work. And I Thank you Mila Rush and Aaron Kuperman! look forward to working with Francisco Besides publicity for our SIS via our quality Avalos, 1995-96 FCIL SIS Chair, and the new Newsletter, we also continued to report on leadership of the SIS in the future. And I thank FCIL SIS activities in the Special Interest everyone else who has worked to make the Section News column of the AALL Newsletter, FCIL SIS such a great SIS! thanks to Grace Mills. Contributions to this I look forward to seeing you all at the column are important in order for the FCIL Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh. This is your SIS to share information with the general chance to become involved and meet everyone membership of AALL, and to make them in person! Attend the FCIL SIS programs, aware that the FCIL SIS is a resource for them subcommittee and working group meetings, the in their work. business meeting and reception-they are And we continue to have very good wonderful ways to participate in the SIS educational programs presented at the AALL (chance meetings in hallways and impromptu Annual Meeting. I would like to thank Marci lunches and whatnots are pretty fun too!). Hoffman and Jolande Goldberg for their work Below is the schedule of meetings for the on getting FCIL SIS proposed programs FCIL SIS. See you there! Arrivederci! accepted by the AALL Education Committee See y'all in Pittsburgh! for the 1995 Pittsburgh meeting. And AALL and Oceana for their continuing support of the five sequenced institutes to train foreign and international law librarians: FCIL Newsletter May 1995

I d?'ttstuwh idalenda

Sunday, July 16, 1996 Monday, July 17

7:30-8:15 Processing Issues Group 8:30-10:00 C-5 Global Lawyers, Global Librarians 7:30-9:00 Subcommittees Con-current Meetings 1:45-3:15 E-3 Global Information * Clearinghouse for Superhighway?: The Open Internships and Inter-national Road, Speed Bumps, and Personnel Exchanges Dangerous Curves . Education/Program Committee Tuesday, July 18, 1995 . Publications Committee); Newsletter 10:15-11:45 Connected for Justice: . Special Committee on Chinese Law-The Past, Materials for Third-World Present, and Future Libraries 0 Special Committee on 4:30-5:15 Latin American Law Working Self-Instructional Materials Group 0 Special Committee to Design a Model Curriculum 5:15-6:00 African Law Working Group for Librarians in Developing Countries 6:00-7:00 Asian Law Working Group

8:00-8:45 Teaching Foreign and 7:30 Asian American Law International Legal Research Librarians Caucus Dinner

9:15-11:15 A-i Building the Global Law 8:30-10:00 International Association of Library Law Libraries Reception

2:45-3:45 B-2 International Justice: Wednesday, July 19 How Courts Worldwide Disseminate Information 8:30-10:00 K-4 Jewish and Islamic Law: A Comparative Perspective 3:00-3:45 Electronic Issues Group of Religious Legal Systems (Part 1) 3:50-4:35 International Issues Group 10:15-11:45 J-4 Jewish and Islamic Law: 4:40-5:25 CIS & East European Law A Comparative Perspective of Religious Legal Systems 5:30-7:30 FCIL SIS Business Meeting (Part 2) and Reception for Attendees From Abroad May 1995 M~L Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter Nominees for FCIL Offices U.S. has been spent at the New York by Timothy Kearley University Law School Library where he University of Wyoming Law Library started as a library assistant and has served in several other positions, including that of This year's Nominating Committee (Tim international and foreign law librarian. In 1994 Kearley, Mila Rush, and Dan Wade) was he was named associate director for global pleased to be able to follow in the tradition of library services at the NYU Law School. its predecessors by finding highly qualified Radu has written several works of nominees for our SIS offices. The nominee for literature in Rumanian, as well as many book Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect is out-going Secretary/ reviews, bibliographies, and articles in English Treasurer Margareta Horiba of the Tulane Law on legal and law librarianship topics. In School, while the nominee to replace her as addition, he writes two columns for Tax Notes Secretary/Treasurer is New York University Internationaland is an associate editor for Law School's Radu Popa. SEEL: Survey of East European Law. FCIL Margareta has been active in the FCIL SIS SIS members also will be familiar with Radu since its inception. In addition to her recent by virtue of his participation in several SIS service as Secretary/Treasurer, Margareta programs and activities. Among other things, served the SIS as chair of the Nominating he chaired the CIS and East European Law Committee in 1987 and of the Clearinghouse Working Group; coordinated and spoke at a for Internships and International Personnel program on Eastern Europe and the former Exchanges from 1990 to 1993. She also has Soviet Union at the 1993 Boston Annual been active in FCIL SIS program planning, Meeting; and will be a faculty member and most recently moderating and speaking on an speaker at our 1995 Philadelphia Institute on SIS-sponsored panel about comparative law at International Business Law. the San Francisco Annual Meeting. Margareta earned her B.A. from Uppsala University in Sweden and her M.L.S. from the FCIL People in the News: University of Minnesota. She has worked in Val Bolen Retires cataloging or acquisitions at Purdue University, By Mila Rush the University of Minnesota and at the Tulane University of Minnesota Law Library Law School where she has been Head of Acquisitions since 1984. Among Margareta's Val Bolen, foreign and international law writings are many book reviews and a chapter librarian at the Ohio State University College on acquiring foreign legal materials in the of Law Library, retires at the end of June. Val AALL-sponsored Introduction to Foreign ends eighteen years at Ohio State, associated Legal Systems (Oceana, 1994). Margareta's with the Department of Slavic Languages for work is greatly facilitated by her mastery of the first eight and with the Law Library for the five languages in addition to English. last ten. Radu Popa, our candidate for Secretary/ Val does not have definite plans on what Treasurer, is likewise well qualified for FCIL to do after June, except to do some traveling SIS office. Radu received his M.A. in with his wife Gilda. They plan to go to Canada Romance language and literature from the soon and later take a trip to Europe. He is University of Bucharest and his M.L.S. from looking forward to enjoying his retirement Columbia University. He worked as an editor years in Columbus. and served as editorial director at the Tribuna Our best wishes to you, Val! We will miss Romaniei in Bucharest for eleven years before you. coming to the U.S. His entire career in the MCL Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter May 1995 PITTSBURGH ANNUAL MEETING PREVIEW

WORKING GROUP MEETINGS comparative, and international legal research. Please bring twenty copies of your most recent Processing Issues Group syllabus or twenty copies of a research exercise Sunday, June 16, 7:30 a.m. using Internet for exchange and questions or Sandra Beehler comments for discussion of this valuable and Cornell University Law Library popular resource. Finally, we will be discussing problems in The meeting of the Processing Issues teaching the Internet, such as lack of Group is set for Sunday, July 16, from 7:30 to equipment or outdated equipment, and lack of 9:00 a.m. The group was formed in 1992 to appropriate classroom space. discuss cataloging and acquisitions issues relating to foreign and international materials. International Issues Group In 1992/93 we completed a survey of libraries Sunday, July 16, 3:50 p.m. with collections of materials from international Ellen Schaffer organizations to assist Jolande Goldberg Georgetown University Law Library (Library of Congress) in developing the new class schedules. Last year we heard a report The International Issues Group will be from Jolande about the new cataloger's desktop meeting on Sunday, July 16, 1995, from 3:50 and also proposed a new column on technical to 4:35 p.m. and would like to encourage processing for the FCIL Newsletter. We are a interested parties to attend our meeting. growing interest group with plenty of oppor- Jolande Goldberg of the Library of Congress tunities for new members to get involved. will make a brief presentation on the draft LC schedules for International Relations and Teaching Foreign and Inter- Diplomacy. She would like to encourage our national Legal Research input and discussion regarding materials that Working are presently slated for inclusion in the Inter- Group national Relations and Diplomacy JZ class, but Sunday, July 16, 8:00 a.m. currently reside in classes D and F (Political Christine A. Corcos History). There will be an opportunity to CWRU Law School discuss IGO documentation in the new JZ schedule as well (UN, OAS, and EC). This year we will be discussing the We hope to see you there. addition of course syllabi to the CWRU Law School World Wide Web server and path- Asian American finders to Washburn University Law School's Law Librarians Web server. We will also be examining the Caucus role of the Web in teaching FCIL research, Tuesday, July 18, 4:30 p.m. trading war stories and ideas for using these Dan Wade resources, and discussing what other resources Yale Law School Library we should be putting on the Web next, and who should do it. For those interested in Asian law, the We will also be discussing the uses of Asian American Law Librarians Caucus Internet resources generally in teaching foreign, (AALLC) has planned a very full day on Tuesday, July 18: May 1995 FCIL Newsleter MayI 1995 FCIL Newsletter 0 10:15-11:45 a.m.: Program "Connected for evaluate the potential of government, NGOs, Justice: Chinese Law--the Past, Present, and and individual institutions to coordinate these Future" with Bob Berting, Paul Fu, and efforts and survey current projects in the non- Dorothy Li (see description, p. 9). commercial sector. " 4:30-5:30 p.m.: AALLC Business Meeting. " 5:30-6:00 p.m.: a short presentation by B-2 International Justice: How Professor Pat Chew, University of Pittsburgh Courts Worldwide Disseminate Law School, on recent developments relating to Asian American civil rights. Information & 6:00-7:00 p.m.: Asian Law Working Sunday, July 16, 2:45 p.m. Marci Hoffman, coordinator Group, an informal discussion of collection of Minnesota Law Library development of Asian legal materials and University related issues. 0 7:30 p.m.: Fabulous 21-item dinner Electronic technologies are being utilized including crispy honey walnut jelly fish at by courts worldwide to increase the availability Mandarin Gourmet Restaurant, 305 Wood St., of legal information. This trend is evident in (ground floor of Downtown YWCA), Pitts- the way national and supranational courts are burgh. The restaurant is within fifteen minutes disseminating, using, and accessing information walking distance. We'll leave from the AALL through the Internet, electronic bulletin boards, convention message board area at 7:15 p.m. databases, CD-ROMs, and other methods. sharp. To secure a reservation, send a check "International Justice: How Courts Worldwide for $20 made payable to Wendy Hu, AALLC Disseminate Information," sponsored by the Secretary/Treasurer, c/o 277 Sayre Drive, FCIL SIS, will explore the ways in which Princeton, NJ 08540. The deadline is June 15, courts are making information available to the 1995. (If you send your check later, please call legal community and to the public in Germany, Wendy at 212-791-8880.) the European Union, and the United States. The speakers are Renate Weidinger from the PROGRAMS University of Konstanz in Germany (well- known to those of you on INT-LAW and EURO-LEX) and Michael Greenwood from the A-1 Building the Global Law Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. The Library speakers will address 1) the kinds of informa- Sunday, July 16, 9:15 a.m. tion delivered (opinions and decisions, filing Kathie Price, coordinator information, court rules, etc.); 2) the ways in New York University Law Library which information is disseminated, accessed, and used; 3) the innovative approaches being Building the global electronic law library implemented by each court; 4) the reasons for will require massive resources and cooperation selecting these approaches; and 5) the problems to digitize current collections. Speakers in this encountered, such as linguistic and technolog- program-Win Shin Chiang (Research ical constraints. Mr. Greenwood will discuss Libraries Group), Nick Finke (University of how these issues are confronted and handled in Cincinnati Law Library), and Marybeth Peters U.S. federal courts. Ms. Weidinger will address (Register of Copyrights, Library of these issues as they relate to what is going on Congress)--will discuss the creation of inter- in German and European Union courts. Time institutional collection development and sharing will be allotted for questions. Please plan on partnerships, technological requirements, and attending this program and supporting the SIS intellectual property mechanisms required to and our guest speakers. encourage collection sharing. They will also FCIL Newsletter may 1995 FCIL Newsletter May 1995 C-5 Global Lawyers, Global What are governments worldwide doing to get everyone connected to the nets? What Librarians obstacles exist to achieving universal a.m. Monday, July 17, 8:30-10:00 connectivity-costs, language differences, lack Claire Germain, coordinator of equipment? And once you're on the road, Cornell Law Library what are some possible obstacles or impediments to getting to the information resource How the global world economy is you want-inability to send or read non-ASCII changing the legal profession, both abroad and texts easily (for example, texts in foreign in the United States, and the role librarians languages); inability to decode encoded should play in the development of a worldwide messages or to understand systems or libraries discussed by legal profession are topics to be you come across because of lack of uniform John Berger of Kluwer Law International, Raul interfaces, awkward interfaces, or language Valdes-Fauli, lawyer and mayor of Coral limitations; limits in times of operation and Gables, Florida, and Renate Weidinger, law number of users; charges for accessing the librarian at the University of Konstanz, information; legal restrictions such as encryp- Germany. Guiding principles will be set out, as tion and publication bans that might curtail or well as current efforts, successes, and projects chill cross-border communications and worldwide legal to provide access to exchange of legal information via the Internet; information sources in print and electronic fears of breaches of privacy, security, and the needed foreign and formats, to provide copyright; or criminal abuses? skills to librarians, and to international research In sum, the program will describe what prepare law students, lawyers, educate and kinds of access to the Internet and other and other legal researchers for a global judges, electronic networks people worldwide have law practice. (which countries are represented on the nets, which aren't, why they aren't, and what E-3 Global Information initiatives exist to get them on), how access Superhighway?: The Open abroad compares to that in the U.S. in terms of Road, Speed Bumps, and costs and the types of information available, Dangerous Curves and some factors to consider in making sure that the highway to sources of legal informa- Monday, July 17, 1:45-3:15 p.m. tion on the nets is clear of speed bumps, traffic Lyonette Louis-Jacques, coordinator jams, and dangerous curves. University of Chicago Law Library The speakers, Bruce McConnell from the U.S. government and Chris Mellor from Information policies and practices in the Commerce Clearing House, will cover United States and abroad can have a direct government and industry viewpoints on the impact on the American legal researcher. This issues. How local laws, conditions, standards, program will examine electronic "information language skills, etc., can have an impact on superhighway" proposals in the U.S., the ease of access to legal information in electronic European Union, Canada, Japan, etc., and format will be covered, followed by questions discuss the ways in which these proposals and and comments from the audience. established infrastructures might facilitate or hinder access to legal information in electronic Support your FCIL SIS in Pittsburgh format. Obstacles to achieving universal Attend FCIL Programs! connectivity, impediments to accessing needed information, and issues of censorship, privacy, security, and copyright will be discussed. May 1995 FCIL Newslefter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter J-4/K-4 Jewish and Islamic 1987 as a member of the U.S. People to People Law: A Comparative Law Librarians delegation to China. Dorothy Li, John Marshall Law School, will end the Perspective of Religious Legal program with a brief discussion of her biblio- Systems graphy of written and electronic sources, Wed., July 18, 8:30 and 10:15 a.m. emphasizing China's trade laws. Mon Yin Mark Bernstein, coordinator Lung, who will moderate the meeting, will also Duke Law School Library provide a list of internet sites for Chinese law. Jay Shuman, coordinator This program should be appreciated by all New York University Law Library those who enjoy Bob Bering and/or have an interest in China. We hope that many of those The first session of this program on Jewish who attend the program will be able to join us and Islamic law will provide a survey of for a gourmet Chinese dinner in the evening comparative law, including a summary of (see pp. 6-7). religious legal systems. Experts on Talmudic and Islamic law will provide overviews of FCIL Flag Collection these systems. The second session will feature by Mila Rush a dialog between specialists in Islamic and University of Minnesota Law Library Talmudic law. Hypotheticals focusing on specific areas of law will be used to compare The FCIL SIS Flag Collection is the result and contrast the two legal systems. The of the Adopt-a-Flag Project two years ago. The program will conclude with a presentation on project solicited donors, who for their resources available in Talmudic and Islamic donations would select a country's flag (or law. Bibliographies will be available for those several) to form the nucleus of the Flag attending the program. Collection. The appeal was made to the membership of the FCIL SIS, and we went to H-4 Connected for Justice: Boston with thirty-six flags. The collection Chinese Law-The Past, attracted some attention in Boston and we Present, and Future received offers for more adoptions. The Tuesday, July 18, 10:15 a.m. collection stands at forty. No further efforts at Dan Wade, coordinator solicitation have been made since the initial Yale Law School Library appeal. Mon Yin Lung, coordinator While the visual objective of the collection University of Kansas Law Library was to brighten and lighten the SIS's table at the CONELL Marketplace and the AALL Intended as a sequel to the 1994 program Annual Meeting Activities Area, the project in Japanese legal history, this program was was also another vehicle for membership originally conceived as a way for Bob Berring involvement. Other uses found have been to to share his course in Chinese law at Berkeley grace the podium at the SIS Business Meeting with law librarians, and his presentation with and Reception, and the SIS tables during the its focus on Chinese legal history will be the President's luncheon. A use that has yet to be main stage. In addition, Paul Fu, Supreme exploited is educational: e.g., identifying/ Court of Ohio Law Library, will discuss the naming the countries represented, learning current Chinese legal system, basing his more about those countries. remarks on discussions with Chinese Ministry With from one to five adopted flags each, of Justice officials, judges, lawyers, and law the Flag Collection donors are: Dorothy Clark, professors, some of whom he met personally in Pam Deemer, Claire Germain, Mary Cooper FCIL Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter May 1995 Gilliam, Areta Halibey, Mary McCormick, Sara Brian Striman, Dan Wade, and Telle Zoller. O'Neill, Rosemary Noonan, Jon Pratter, I am assured by the SIS Chair that the Barbara Rainwater, Ken Rudolf, Mila Rush, flags will be flying in Pittsburgh. Please visit Ellen Schaffer, Janice Selberg, Amber Smith, the SIS table in the Activities Area.

IALL Course in Vienna Set for September by Bridget Reischer, Program Chair Harvard Law School Library

The International Association of Law Tuesday, September 19 (Bratislava) Libraries will hold its 14th Annual Course on 0 A Legal History of Czechoslovakia: From International Law Librarianship in Vienna, Its Creation to a Peaceful Separation Austria, Sept. 18-21, 1995. Entitled "Current " Developments in Slovakian Law Trends in International Law: A Challenge for " Sources of Eastern European Law Law Librarians," the course will feature * Tour of Slovakian Parliament and speakers who are practicing attorneys, Parliamentary Library academics, and law librarians. The preliminary program below will give an idea of the topics Wednesday, September 20 (Vienna) to be covered. * Internet Sources for Law Documentation Registration fee will be US$225 for " European Developments on the Internet members, US$265 for non-members, and $135 " UN Crime and Justice Information for accompanying persons. IALL members will Network be receiving registration forms directly and " Internet Demonstrations other interested persons should contact: " Tours of the Austrian National Library and Roberta Shaffer, Library Director, Covington & UN Libraries Burling, 1201 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., 0 Course Dinner Washington, DC 20044. Fax: 202-662-6291. Thursday, September 21 (Danube Valley) Preliminary Program 0 Visit to Stift Melk, a recently restored Benedictine Abbey and Library with its Monday, September 18 (Vienna) collection of rare books and incunabula 0 New Developments in the Law of the * Durnstein (where Richard the Lionheart European Union: Harmonization and the was imprisoned) Austrian Experience 0 Talk on Hostage Taking in International • The OSCE and International Law: Law Legal Problems in the Reunification of Germany Friday, September 22 • Vienna Convention on Sale of Goods • IALL Board Meeting (9:00-17:00) The UN and International Crime Prevention Read FCIL Newsletter Developments in International Atomic Energy Law on the WWW: • IALL General Meeting and Welcoming http://Iaw.wuacc.edu/fcil/newsl.html Reception May 1995 MCL Newsleter SCALL 23rd Annual Institute in Riverside by June F. MacLeod Gray Cory Ware & Freidenrich, San Diego

The Southern California Association of understanding the complexities of the problems Law Libraries 23rd Annual Institute convened in dealing with such diverse cultures. Mr. Del at the Mission Inn in Riverside on February 24 Duca gave an example of the tuna embargo in and 25, 1995. which the United States is most concerned The topic of the institute was Free Trade, about dolphin-safe tuna. However, Mexico Mexico, and California: Creating a Seamless apparently does not have such strict regulations Border. Approximately one hundred librarians in fishing for tuna. The end product is the attended this institute to learn about NAFTA same (tuna in a can) but the regulations by and its effects on, not only the trade market, which tuna are caught is so different between but also the environment. the two nations that there is difficulty in Topics discussed included NAFTA agreeing on rules of trade in that product. information sources available on Lexis and According to the speakers, another problem Westlaw and the regulation of financial that NAFTA has created is the amount of services under NAFTA, presented by Antonio paperwork involved in the transportation of Mendoza, who is an associate professor at the products between the three countries. The Pepperdine University School of Law. amount of receipts necessary for a shipper to Boris Kozolchyk, who is president and physically move products from Canada to director of the National Center for Inter- Mexico can become an administrative American Free Trade, presented a discussion nightmare. In some cases, truckloads of on NAFTA and how it affects the transpor- products must be transferred at the borders on tation industry between Canada, the United to other trucks so that the shipments can States, and Mexico. complete their route. David Gantz, director of graduate studies at Much of the discussion also centered on the University of Arizona and associate what mechanism will be used when there are director of the National Center for Inter- disagreements between the three nations and American Free Trade, spoke about trade lawsuits are filed. One speaker recommended dispute resolutions under NAFTA. that it would be much easier to take an action Patrick Del Duca, who is a partner at to an arbitral commission, instead of federal Kelley, Dry & Warren, spoke on NAFTA and court, thereby resolving the dispute in a more the environment. timely manner. One of the arbitral courts sits Attendees at the seminar learned of the in Montreal, Canada, which makes it seem various online resources available for NAFTA almost ineffective, since many of the disputes information, as well as fax "hotlines" for trade arise at the Mexico-U.S. border. and NAIFTA data. The speakers presented the Another consideration is that NAFTA will various aspects of NAFTA, including the type eventually extend down through many of the of documents that comprise the North Latin American countries. Many of the American Free Trade Agreement. This includes institute's speakers believe that Chile may be the relationship between what constitutes an one of the first Latin American countries to international agreement as well as a treaty, and adopt NAFTA. what the political aspects of NAFTA, both A wonderful bibliography prepared by two direct and indirect, have been on all three members of SCALL provided the attendees nations (Canada, the United States, and with resources available under the various Mexico). Further discussion included aspects of NAFTA (legislative history, general FCIL Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter May 1995 background, copyright and intellectual property information on the ever-evolving topic of the dispute resolutions, and environmental matters), North American Free Trade Agreement. as well as resources available online and The law librarians who attended this through the Internet. Law librarians will have seminar left with a better understanding of the to have knowledge of where to locate issues involving NAFTA.

Copy Cataloging and Cooperative Cataloging by Aaron W. Kuperman Library of Congress

Over 100 years ago, libraries realized that can't be integrated into an LCSH data base. it would be more efficient to copy another Most American research libraries use the LC library's cataloging than to catalog a book classification, and most American law libraries "originally." At first, this meant copying a use the LC classification for American law. A catalog record from a published book catalog, general library's copy catalogers, or those in a and for most of the 20th century it meant (for law library that is primarily collecting an American library) using Library of Congress American materials (i.e., most of the law catalog cards. For the last 20 years, "copy libraries in the United States), can expect to cataloging" has usually involved downloading find a usable class number when searching for a record from an online bibliographic utility. cataloging data. Many (perhaps most) of the The utilities offered both LC records as well as very strong foreign law collections do not use records contributed by other libraries; while LC classification for foreign law, in part non-LC cataloging data might not always be as because LC was several generations late in good as LC data, it might occasionally be publishing its yet to be finished K schedules, better, and it would certainly be available and many of the major research libraries sooner. developed local classification systems. There has been close cooperation among "Cooperative cataloging" in its current Anglo-American libraries in developing form became possible once the use of on-line descriptive cataloging rules, and since World systems allowed libraries to access each other's War II this cooperation has become global. bibliographic records. Presumably, libraries Thus the rules governing the descriptive part of with similar cataloging standards and similar a bibliographic record (describing the physical collections could cooperate by splitting their item and its creators) are virtually identical in cataloging workload and sharing the records. the "Anglo-American" cultural area, and very As applied to the Library of Congress, similar in other countries. Law libraries have "cooperation" means libraries other than the been influential in drafting international Library of Congress producing cataloging data cataloging rules, and they tend to be which is compatible in terms of quality to that reasonably good from our perspective. of the Library of Congress, thereby relieving While the Library of Congress Subject the workload for the Library of Congress and Headings are used by most American law getting more records into the national pool of libraries and some non-American law libraries, catalog records from which libraries can base they are generally not used in non-English their copy cataloging. speaking countries. Other systems for keyword Most non-law libraries traditionally copied access with controlled vocabulary are used in Library of Congress cataloging without many countries. Non-LC subject terms may be question. Non-LC catalog records usually very useful to users and subject catalogers, but required a higher degree of scrutiny, and the May 1995 MCL Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter "bottom line" of cooperative cataloging is that won't even address non-common law systems, a "coop" record can be put into the faster and which are even more alien to most American cheaper track since it can be treated as LC law librarians). Language expertise will rarely rather than non-LC cataloging. translate into law cataloging expertise, so even Law libraries were never able to use LC if a research library has a specialist in Hebraica data as easily as non-law libraries. The lack of cataloging, that doesn't mean they can cope LC classification for law required the with subject cataloging complexities of Israel's intervention of a professional cataloger, and hybrid legal system. While most American law still does for a library not using LC's K libraries have substantial experience in schedules (or for an area of law not yet cataloging United States law, only the largest covered by K schedules). Many law libraries collect enough foreign materials to develop often make some additional modifications similar expertise for any other jurisdiction (and which better serve their users, but reduce the many of those don't use a "standard" value to an outside library copying their classification system). catalog records. These factors affect foreign If a library has the expertise to deal with law materials more than American law. foreign law, there is a greater chance that When the option of copying non-LC national standards (de facto, LC's practices) cataloging became available, the world got will be disregarded. Often this represents a more complicated, especially for law libraries, desire to do better than LC, or to meet local and particularly for law libraries with strong needs. Non-law libraries often put books in collections of foreign and international law. All non-law numbers to better serve local research libraries have to deal with the possibility that needs. Many libraries with small collections of the record found through a utility will represent foreign legal materials rationally prefer less less than acceptable cataloging, especially if than LC style detail in cataloging foreign law the cataloging library lacks familiarity with the (e.g. if you only have one book on Italian law, type of book being cataloged. For law libraries, and are adding an average of one a decade, a law book cataloged by a non-law library has you don't need LC's KKH schedule with its an excellent chance of having serious faults in 5000 number span). These sorts of variations terms of classification and subject analysis, and do not suggest incompetence, and in fact a good chance of having serious faults in the represent a praiseworthy sensitivity of the descriptive cataloging (especially if the book is catalog to meet local needs, though they reduce other than a simple monographic treatise). Law the usability of the record when copied by cataloging is different, and probably more other libraries. difficult, than general cataloging. Cooperative programs in theory result in Foreign legal materials are even harder. many records being done up to LC standards, Just as all law libraries have to be wary of which include full authority control. In one cataloging from non-law libraries, libraries part of the cooperative cataloging program, have to be wary of cataloging from libraries libraries contribute fully cataloged records whose collections don't afford them substantial which LC accepts as if they had been experience with a specific language or cataloged in-house, and which outside libraries jurisdiction. For example, expertise in dealing can copy with the same degree of confidence with American law's neat distinction between as if they were fully cataloged LC records. statutes (legislative enactments) and regulations Only one law library currently participates in (administrative acts authorized by statutes) will this program (and while they do excellent not prepare a cataloger for a British Order in work, and have tackled some priceless special Council or the equivalent from jurisdictions collections, they aren't big enough to have a that were part of the former British Empire (I major quantitative impact on the cataloging of FCIL Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter May 1995 foreign and international legal materials). One manually retyping the data. In the future it may factor is that much of LC's recruiting for such be possible to directly transfer the data through programs has focused on the general libraries some form of tape exchange or using the rather than the fiercely independent law Z39.50 server (which allows different libraries. Another problem is that LC has bibliographic systems to exchange data), wanted libraries using national classification thereby allowing foreign bibliographic data to numbers, and many of the best law libraries be integrated into American cataloging data use local systems for foreign law. More law bases. libraries participating in both the name Law libraries with a strong interest in authority and bibliographic record wings of the foreign and international law may be the cooperative programs would help all law biggest winners of increasing cooperation. Our libraries, but especially the major research users demand access to foreign materials libraries specializing in non-U.S. law (unlike some "scholars" who naively believe (including the Library of Congress). that anything of importance is published in A remaining problem is that for many America or at least in English). Original materials, no copy is available. It appears that cataloging is very expensive cataloging, and many foreign books are acquired by at most high quality cataloging (the only type serious one American law library. Most of these books users have a need for) is the most expensive have been cataloged by libraries in the country sort of cataloging. Therefore, techniques that of origin, and "out there" are excellent allow for high quality alternatives to original bibliographic records that are very similar to cataloging are critical to us in keeping those produced by American libraries. With cataloging affordable. Internet, it is easy to locate those records, which can contain valuable information as to authorship, series, and subject. For the most This represents the author's opinion, and is not an part it is impossible to "copy" them without official statement from the Library of Congress.

WHAT'S NEW ON INT-LAW? by Janice Selberg Wayne State University Law Library

I've found it more and more difficult to presents the IANWeb, a comprehensive choose just a few deserving questions, answers hypertext guide to the worldwide network- and issues for this column. In this issue in accessible resources available to scholars in the particular, there were many items I was hard study of International Affairs. The IANWeb pressed to delete. For all of you who find INT- provides scholars, students and professionals in LAW an indispensable tool, keep sending those International Affairs with "one-stop" access to messages! all resources, contacts, and other information relevant to International Affairs and available on the Internet. The IANWeb is part of the Introducing the IANWeb Virtual Library project and is itself linked with many other WWW-based information resources Casey Palowitch, IANWeb, 1 March worldwide... 1995: The International Affairs Network ...The International Affairs Network Web may 1995 MCL Newsletter May. 1995 FCIL Newsletter is a hypertext resource in support of the Treaty Information #1 mission of the International Affairs Network (IAN) (http://www.pitt.edu/-ian), a project Wiltrud Harms, University of California designed to enhance the institutional capacity Boalt Hall, 22 March 1995: The following is of schools of International Affairs in East and for those who do not have access to LEXIS Central Europe and the Newly Independent and who are novices in multilateral treaty States. It is a collaborative venture involving research (and who want alternatives to treaty the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School searching on the Internet): of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) I find the annual index (always contained and its International Management Development in the November issue of the paper version) of Institute (IMDI), the Association of Profes- the ILM very easy to use. It only takes a sional Schools of International Affairs minute to be directed to the ILM issue that (APSIA), and selected institutions in the contains the wanted treaty text (if it was region. In addition to Research Resource reprinted). If I know the date when an guides, the IANWeb is also the home of "important" multilateral (sometimes even information about the project and partner bilateral) treaty was adopted, then I can assume schools, and project-specific pages on the that the ILM will have the text reprinted activities of the International Affairs Network. usually 2-6 months later. If I have no idea at These hypertext documents can be viewed all in which decade the treaty was adopted, using WWW browsing software such as the then I usually consult the key word indexes of free Mosaic package for Macintosh, X- Multilateral Treaties: Index and Current Windows, and MSWindows, available from the Status, or the U.N.'s Multilateral Treaties National Center for Supercomputing Appli- Deposited with the Secretary General, or the cations, or other browsers such as OmniWeb table of contents (Part 2) of the US Department for NeXTSTEP, and the character-mode of State's Treaties in Force. These lead me to browser Lynx. treaty entries which supply the needed date The International Affairs Network is (and a source for the text-which helps if the funded by a grant from The Pew Charitable ILM did not reprint the treaty after all). Trusts. For further information, contact (in USA): Wolfgang Schloer ([email protected]) or Treaty Information #2 Casey Palowitch ([email protected]). Fay Henexson, California Department of International Affairs Network Justice, 22 March 1995: Maybe someone out IMDJ/GSPIA, 3J22 Forbes Quad there can help verify that the following treaty University of Pittsburgh is still in force and has not been amended. Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA I have checked my Jan. 1, 1994, edition of Treaties in Force. The attorney has a copy and just wants to make sure that no recent changes Web Site for Constitutions have been made. It is a treaty with Mexico: Treaty on the execution of penal sentences; Elliott Chabot, U.S. House of Represen- signed 11/25/76; entered into force 11/30/77. tatives, 2 March 1995: Copies of the constitu- I already tried Lexis and the treaty tions of several nations, as well as the database has a big hole from the mid-1960's to constitutions of several of the states of the the 80's, so that was no help. United States, are available on the Internet at http://www.pls.com:8001 William Walker, Vanderbilt University, FCIL Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter May 1995 23 March 1995: Probably the easiest and most INT-LAW FAQs accurate way to verify that the treaty is still in force and unmodified since the last issue of Lyonette Louis-Jacques, University of Treaties in Force is to call the Treaty Office at Chicago, 13 May 1995: As you know, I've the State Department, 202-647-2044. been maintaining the INT-LAW FAQ (answers to frequently-asked-questions about the INT- LAW list). The most recent version is 15K Treaty Information #3 (about 5-6 pages long) and is dated 22 April 1995. This version answers general questions Caren Doyle, Baker & McKenzie (San about INT-LAW including how to unsubscribe Francisco), 15 May 1995: I need to find the and how to subscribe. It is available via the full text of the 1985 US-Israeli Free Trade World Wide Web at the following Agreement, including annexes and imple- URL:http://www.lib.uchicago.edu- menting legislation. Most of the treaty appears /-llou/intlawfaq.html in ILM but not the full text. I've requested a You can get at it if you have a Web copy from the Treaty Office, but I may go browser such as Lynx, Netscape, Mosaic, or gray(er) waiting for the document. Cello. You can also get at it if you have telnet capability (as you can with all resources that Esther Snyder, Bar Ian University have a URL--gopher://, telnet://, ftp://, http://, (Israel), 16 May 1995: You might be able to mailto://, news://). To do so, go to a site that find the agreement on the Israel Ministry of enables public access to its Lynx Web browser Foreign Affairs gopher, israel-info.gov.il. If such as Cornell, Chicago-Kent, or Indiana law not, it is in the Israel Treaty Series-Kitvei schools: amana; but it's probably faster to find in US telnet www.law.cornell.edu, login: www materials. telnet www.law.indiana.edu, login: www telnet www.kentlaw.edu, login: www Once at these sites, you can go to any other Treaty Information #4 Internet address that you have the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for, by entering g Randall J. Snyder, Department of State: (for "Go to"). This will open a command line The Office of Treaty Affairs in the Office of that will prompt you to enter the URL you the Legal Adviser here at the Department of want to go to. In this case, enter: State publishes the TIAS prints (along with http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/intlawfaq. UST and Treaties in Force). They may be html contacted at 202-647-2044 and will provide And you'll be right at the INT-LAW FAQ! copies. More recent agreements may also be P.S. I can also e-mail a copy of the INT- found on Lexis and Westlaw, and it is always LAW FAQ to any interested person. Plus, I worth checking InternationalLegal Materials, hope to HTML-ize the FAQ, so that it'll have the American Society of International Law hypertext links, and it would be possible to publication. jump to the sections you're interested in and e- The Office of Treaty Affairs is currently mail or save to a file just that section. working on an electronic BBS, which would contain new agreements and treaty status information. Details to be provided when they Chinese Human Rights Database are available. Also, I am available to help as well. Lyonette Louis-Jacques, University of Chicago, 13 May 1995: I'm forwarding this May 1995 MCL Newsletter MayJ 1995 FCIL Newsletter post with permission to INT-LAW... According to the guides, these databases You will need to access via a guest contain "full-text translations of pertinent law account, using the account name guest and the and regulation governing environmental, password guest. So if you web over to occupational health and safety (EHS), and http://lawhk.hku.hk, you'll get a message hazardous materials transportation activities for saying access without authorization denied, but numerous international jurisdictions. it will retry, and say "Enter username for Law- Researched by regional EHS regulatory experts On-Project at lawhk.hku.hk:". Enter guest. and translated by highly skilled technical Then it'll ask for your password. Enter guest. translators, this data is a key tool for any And you're there! industry doing business in another country." These files are supposed to be updated Chan Chi Ming, University of Hong monthly. Kong, 12 May 1995: I am happy to inform you that the Law-On-Line Project of the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Classics Back in Print Kong has already set up a database of Chinese laws and regulations. This database contains Shotaro Hamamoto, Kyoto University the full text of Chinese laws and administrative (Japan), 16 May 1995: I heard that The regulations since 1949 and it is updated every Classics of InternationalLaw, originally month. It contains the full text of each docu- published by the Carnegie Institution in 1911, ment. However, only the Chinese version (in had just been reprinted (in 1995). Would you B5) code is currently available. The English tell me which publisher reprinted The Classics? version will be opened in July. All data is The celebrated series of classical works provided by the Legislative Affairs Bureau of include: Grotius, Vattel, Pufendorf, Belli, the State Council of the PRC. Subscription will Ayala, etc. be required for using this database. Please feel free to contact me should you Tooru Umeda, Reitaku University have any questions. (Japan), 17 May 1995: The reprint of The Classics was published by Slatkine Reprints-Henry Duant Institute, Geneva in Foreign Environmental Law on LEXIS 1986. It includes the whole works you mentioned. The original was published in 1916, Sally Kelley, University of Arkansas, 13 wasn't it? Hoping to be of help. May 1995: A few weeks ago there were postings about a new database of Mexican environmental law on Lexis which was not United Nations Documentation available to educational subscribers. I noticed this morning that this database and others from Sara Carter, University of Kent (UK), 16 the ERM Computer Services are now on the May 1995: In this Library we currently have a Lexis educational subscription menu in the subscription to UN Mimeographed Documents ENVIRN library! class I-IV, which cover General Assembly, These databases include environmental, Economic and Social Council, Security Council health, and safety laws and regulations for and Disarmament Commission, and Trusteeship eight countries (Brazil, France, European Council. Union, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and the These are a nightmare to maintain, as well United Kingdom) and regulations for all fifty as to search. I am considering recommending states! that we discontinue our subscription in favour FCIL Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter May 1995 of using online access via the UN server. General Assembly/ Security Council, etc.... I have found it difficult navigating my way If there is not enough manpower available, through the UN documents on the Internet, and then libraries will probably have no other wonder whether the UNBIS CD-ROM would alternative than subscribing to UN documents help me. on fiche (although I personally hate to do Does anyone have any advice or research with fiche) and also acquire indexes comments? on CD-ROMs that provide access to the fiche. I am afraid that the UNDP gopher server is J.P. Grant, University of Glasgow (UK), in no way an alternative at the present time for 17 May 1995: I received a trial version of a UN documents collection in paper or on UNBIS CD-ROM last month. I and a group of fiche. The UNDP gopher provides great current senior International Law students conducted an information through all its press releases but its evaluation and concluded that the information selection of documents is extremely limited available was all available elsewhere, that the (with the exception of conference documents system was not user-friendly (being DOS and resolution texts of the main organs). Also, based) and that it was too expensive for what it the documents are often very difficult to locate is. We have decided not to take it. and the arrangement and organization leaves much to be desired. The gopher server is not at Wiltrud Harms, University of California all intended to replace documents collections Boalt Hall, 23 May 1995: Several days ago, but it is a unique source for current Sarah Carter mentioned the nightmare to information on UN activities and in general an maintain UN mimeographed documents and extra tool to find a few selected "hot" asked whether one could use UN documents documents earlier than the paper copy would made available on the UNDP gopher server as appear. an alternative - and whether the new UNBIS In regards to UNBIS Plus, the new UN Plus CD-ROM could serve as a navigating CD-ROM which offers all of its bibliographic tool. tools online: I experimented with it last Friday Much could be said about the difficulties for an hour at another library and liked it very of maintaining UN working documents but I much. I am used to searching for UN only have the time to make the following documents in UNDOC: CurrentIndex and in comment in this regard: if a library is the RLIN database and found the UNBIS Plus subscribing to UN mimeos, then it also must comparatively easy to use. It will not enable be prepared to allocate considerable time to you to find UN documents posted on the UN library assistants and reference staff to gopher but it should greatly facilitate access to maintain these thousands of documents UN documents collections. I am sure that received annually - and to familiarize sometime soon more list members (myself themselves with the UN organization and its included) will comment in detail on UNBIS documents system. Plus. Both are interesting but very complex and, I think, even the smartest person needs quite some time to gain a thorough understanding of South American Free Trade both. The few UN bibliographic and reference tools, especially the UN Yearbook and Laura Kinkle, Dewey Ballantine UNDOC: Current Index are great tools but, (Washington, DC), 16 May 1995: In again, it takes time to learn to really utilize all December 1991, the Act of Barahona was their special features and those of the other signed by the presidents of the Andean Pact tools such as Index to Proceedings of the nations. This act provided for the establishment May 1995 FMI Newsletter MayI 1995 FCIL Newsletter of a free trade area between Venezuela, Material on Russia's copyright law can be Colombia, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. I need to found at: find a copy of this act. http://www.spb.su/rulesreg/3-/indintl.html The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency Marylin Raisch, Columbia University, 16 can be reached at: http://cancopy.com May 1995: The Acta de Barahona can be found in a journal we have here at Columbia European Damage Awards called Integraci6n Latinoamericanain vol. 17 at p. 62, the issue for January/February 1992, David Selden, Orr & Reno (Concord, Spanish only. NH), 24 May 1995: I am trying to locate information about versions of European law that require one litigant to lose some portion of Intellectual Property its fee award if its damages turn out to be less than its demand. I have seen mention of Swiss Lyonette Louis-Jacques, University of Law or rule that has this effect. Could you tell Chicago, 17 May 1995: A short note that me where I can find such information? beginning with January 1995, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has Margaret Aycock, University of merges its two monthly reviews, Copyright and Houston, 24 May 1995: For a general Industrial Property, into one journal: Industrial discussion you could consult the International Property and Copyright. I've used the two Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, Vol. XI journals in the past to get really current texts Torts, "The Apportionment of Damages" at (they're monthly) in English or English pages 121-126. For a discussion of Swiss law translation of foreign statutes and international where damages may be reduced because facts agreements related to patents, trademarks, for which the party is responsible have copyrights (including the protection of contributed to create or increase the damage or computer software/programs), trade secrets, etc. to aggravate the position of the debtor, read page 134. Perhaps you might find some law May 17, 1995: I'm posting this for a review articles concerning the award of colleague not on this list. He's looking for a damages in the Index to Foreign Legal site on the net where intellectual property laws Periodicals. from outside the US are available in English. It would be great to find a site that has many (or several), but if there are sites with individual Preparing Defense in Human Rights Cases countries' laws, he'll be delighted to know about them as well. Alan Edwards, University of Otago (New Zealand), 25 May 1995: I wish to identify Elliot Chabot, U.S. House of Represen- cases on Article 14(3)(b) of the International tatives, 18 May 1995: I would start with Convention on Civil and Political Rights (or material at: the equivalent Article 6(3)(b) of the European http://www.pls.com:800 1-/his/105.htm Convention on Human Rights or equivalents in which includes material on the laws of Canada national legislation) in which the point at issue and several other countries. was NOT access to counsel or adequate time to Information on the copyright law of prepare a defence, but any other aspects of Norway can be found at: having access to facilities for preparing a http://www.oslonett.no/home/kopinor/ defence. KOPINOR.html MCL Newsletter May 1995 FCIL Newsletter May 1995 Andrew Byrnes, University of Hong We have been experiencing technical Kong, 25 May 1995: There have been a difficulties uploading files to the gopher. We number of cases on art 1 1(2)(b) of Hong are painfully aware of the lack of currency in Kong's Bill of Rights, which is in identical REFWORLD, but as soon as these problems terms to art 14(3)(b) of the ICCPR (and is are ironed out, we hope to maintain a regular expressly intended to enact that provision). update schedule. Please bear with us! They touch on matters such as disclosure of unused material, access to a computer to analyse records and other matters. ASIL NEWSLETTER Available They are all noted in our Bill of Rights Bulletin and reported in the Hong Kong Public on Subscription Law Reports (HKU Press). I am happy to send you further details if this would help. The ASIL Newsletter is now available on a subscription basis for $20 a year in the U.S. A year's subscription consists of five issues and REFWORLD includes ASIL Insights, with the latest one being a piece by Arvonne S. Fraser on the Elisa Mason, UNCHR, 30 May 1995: Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Recently, there have been a number of requests Discrimination against Women). The ASIL posted for electronic copies of various Newsletter really covers a lot of information of multitreaties and/or UN declarations. While a interest to FCIL SIS members. Orders may be number of people have already responded to placed by e-mail to: these requests, and have in fact already pointed cray@asil l.mhs.compuserve.com. researchers to REFWORLD ("http://www. unicc.org/unhcrcdr" for Web browsers or go to "gopher.unicc.org" and select RefWorld from the menu), I wanted to take a few minutes of FCIL Election Results your time to let you know what conventions you can expect to find once in the A record fifty ballots were returned in UNHCR/CDR gopher. the recent FCIL SIS election. The From the main menu of the gopher, select nominees for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect and "Legal Information." Then select REFINT Secretary/Treasurer were both elected (international instruments). You'll be presented without dissenting votes. (See biographies with a list of titles that are available. REFINT of the two nominees on p. 5.) includes the full-text of conventions and The Executive Committee for 1995/96 treaties that relate to refugee and human rights consists of: issues. Reservations and lists of states parties Chair: Francisco Avalos, University of are also included where relevant. Moreover, the Arizona texts are available in both French and Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Margareta Horiba, English... Tulane University One thing to keep in mind is that REFINT Secretary/Treasurer: Radu Popa, New York tends to include conventions, or multilateral University treaties that enter into force upon receipt of the Immediate Past Chair: Lyonette Louis- requisite number of signatures. Some Jacques, University of Chicago exceptions are made with the inclusion of "non-binding" declarations (e.g., the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)...