CURRICULUM VITAE (September 2017) CLAIRE M. GERMAIN OFFICE Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center Fredric G. Levin College of Law University of Florida P.O. Box 117628 Gainesville, FL 32611-7628/U.S.A. Voice: (352) 273-0703 Fax: 352-392-5093 [email protected] POSITIONS HELD Associate Dean for Legal Information & Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law, Frederic G. Levin College of Law, University of Florida, August 2011- . Professor Emerita, Cornell Law School, 2011- . Edward Cornell Law Librarian and Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, July 1993- 2011 . Director, Dual Degree Programs, Paris & Berlin, Cornell Law School, 2002- 2011 Duke University School of Law Library, Acting Director, Jan.-July 1991; Associate Director, 1989-93 ; Assistant Librarian & Senior Lecturer in Comparative Law, 1984-89; Head, Reference Dept., 1982-84; Senior Reference Librarian: Lecturer in Legal Research; Academic Adviser to Foreign Students, 1980-82. Research Fellow and Guest Librarian, Max-Planck-Institute for Foreign and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany, Spring 1980. German Instructor, Montreuil High School, Montreuil, France, September 1972-June 1974. Research Assistant (Library), O.E.C.D. (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), Paris, Summer 1970. EDUCATION M.L.L. (Master of Law Librarianship), University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, August 1977. Beta Phi Mu. M.C.L., Louisiana State University School of Law, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 1975. Special fellowship. Thesis: Redhibition and Consumer Protection. Comparative study of the French, Louisiana and common law (UCC) legal systems. Licence-en-Droit (LL.B), University of Paris XII, France, June 1974. Licence-ès-Lettres, Mention Allemand (B.A. German), Cum Laude, University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, June 1971. Germanistic Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, Sept.1969-March 1970. HONORS Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Knight, French Legion of Honor, Paris, July 2007. Ceremony : Claire M. Germain Légion d'Honneur 17 July 2007. https://youtu.be/sIHkTIV- 4tA 1992 Joseph L. Andrews Award, for Germain's Transnational Law Research. Elected to International Academy of Comparative Law, 2013. ORAL HISTORIES “Claire M. Germain,” interviewed by Pat Kehoe. Oral History of Law Librarianship. Hein Oral Histories Series. March 26, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi-aiM6P3UQ "Claire M. Germain," interviewed by Peter Martin. Cornell University Law School Heritage Project. Video 14. May 2016. http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/lawschool_heritage/14 LANGUAGES Fluent in French, English, and German. CONSULTATIONS International Invited Participant, Access to Foreign Law Project. Joint Conference of European Commission and the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Brussels, Belgium, February 2012. Consultant, United Nations Permanent International Criminal Court Library, The Hague, The Netherlands, February 2011 Consultant, Supreme Court of Puerto Rico Library, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2010 Consultant, United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Arusha, Tanzania. June-July 2009 Expert witness on French law. American Association of Law Schools (AALS), Site Visit, CUNY Law School, March 2007. American Bar Association/American Association of Law Schools. Site Evaluation Visits 2 Upcoming: University of Maryland, February 2018. University of Utah. April 2016 Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law. November 2013 University of California Irvine, Irvine, Cal. Nov. 2012 University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., May 2011 Notre Dame Law School, February 2002. Washington and Lee Law School, Lexington, Va., March 2001. Hastings Law School, San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 1999. PUBLICATIONS Multimedia Projects MOOC Introduction to U.S. Law. UF Law Project. History of the Common Law/Civil Law; the U.S Criminal Jury. 2014. Reactivated in 2015. Comparative Courtroom Practices: French and U.S. Criminal Trial (2005). http://legal1.cit.cornell.edu/court_trials/index.htm (Username: frenchtrials; Password: greffier) French Law in Action (2004). http://legal1.cit.cornell.edu/frenchlaw/ Books Germain's Transnational Law Research: A Guide for Attorneys (Ardsley-on-Hudson: Transnational Publishers, 1991- to date. May 2006 Supp.). 1992 Joseph L. Andrews Award Winner. Guide to Foreign Legal Materials: French (with Charles Szladits) (Dobbs Ferry: Published for the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia School of Law by Oceana Publications, 2d rev. ed. 1985). Book Chapters “CISG Language and Translation Issues,” Chapter 2, International Sales Law: Contract, Principles & Practice 21 (Larry A. DiMatteo; André Janssen; Ulrich Magnus & Reiner Schulze, eds.Nomos Verlag, 2016). “CISG Translation Issues: Reducing Legal Babelism.” International Sales Law: A Global Challenge 51 (Larry DiMatteo, eds., Cambridge University Press 2014). “Digitizing the World’s Laws,” in IALL International Handbook of Legal Information Management 181 (Richard Danner & Jules Winterton eds, Ashgate 2011). 3 “Louisiana, America, and France: Retracing Historical Milestones and Enhancing Legal Dialogue,”in Liber Amicorum in honor of Professor Saúl Litvinoff, 2008. “Approaches to Statutory Interpretation and Legislative History in France,” 13 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 195-206 (2003); reprinted in Comparative Legal Traditions : Text, Materials, and Cases on Western Law by Mary Ann Glendon, Paolo G. Carozza, & Colin B. Picker. 3rd ed. St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, 2007. “Web Mirror Sites: Creating the Research Library of the Future, and More,” in Law Library Collection Development in the Digital Age 87-104 (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Information Press, Michael Chiorazzi & Gordon Russell, eds. 2002) (Co-published simultaneously as 21 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 2-4 (2002)). www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/Faculty_Services/facbib/clairemirror.html (February 2001). “Rediscovering Rare Books in an Electronic Age,” in Public Services Issues with Rare and Archival Law Materials 93-98 (Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, Michael Widener, ed. 2001); co-published as 20 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 93-98 (2001). “France,” in Information Sources in Law 177-99 (London: Bowker-Saur, Jules Winterton and Elizabeth M. Moys, eds. 2d ed. 1997). “The North American Free Trade Agreement: Research Issues and Legal Literature,” in Introduction to International Organizations 525-62 (New York: Oceana Publications, Jeanne Korman and Lyonette Louis-Jacques, eds. 1996). “The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its Impact on the European Community: Research Issues and Legal Literature,” in Catalonia, Spain, Europe, and Latin America: Regional Legal Systems and Their Literature 201-251 (Buffalo, NY: Hein, Jürgen C. Gödan & Bernard D. Reams, Jr., eds. 1995). “The French Legal System: Sources of Law, Authorities and Research Methods,” in Introduction to Foreign Legal Systems 57-78 (Dobbs-Ferry: Oceana Publications, Richard A. Danner & Marie-Louise H. Bernal, eds. 1994). “U.S. Perspectives on the Training of Law Librarians with International and Foreign Law Expertise,” in Bibliothek und Recht--International/Libraries and Law--International. Festschrift Ralph Lansky 59-75 (Hamburg: Heuser, Jürgen Gödan & Holger Knudsen, eds. 1991). Articles “Lay Participation in the Criminal Jury: France and Belgium,” RCSL. Research Committee on Sociology of Law 7 (Winter 2017). http://rcsl.iscte.pt/rcsl_nl_2017_1_.pdf “Worldwide Access to Foreign Law: International and National Developments Toward Digital Authentication,” 9 Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific- Journal de Droit Comparé du Pacifique 185 (2013), http://www.victoria.ac.nz/law/nzacl/publications.aspx “CISG Translation Issues: Reducing Legal Babelism.” 2012. http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/329 4 “The French Jury at a Crossroads” (with Valerie P. Hans), 74 Chicago-Kent Law Review 101 (2011). Beyond the Expected: Creating and Sustaining Relationships for your Institution,” AALL Spectrum 10-15 (March 2010). http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp1003/pub_sp1003_Beyond.pdf “Legal Information Management in a Global and Digital World: Revolution and Tradition,” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=983197, in 35 International Journal of Legal Information 134 (2007) “Exciting Education Summit News; 70th Anniversary Celebration of the Federal Register,” 10 AALL Spectrum 4, 7 (June 2006). http://www.aall.org/products/pub_sp0606/pub_sp0606_Pres.pdf “Visit to Puerto Rico,” 10 AALL Spectrum 4, 37 (May 2006) http://www.aall.org/products/pub_sp0605/pub_sp0605_Pres.pdf “Partnering with Decision Makers, 10 AALL Spectrum 4 (March 2006). http://www.aall.org/products/pub_sp0603/pub_sp0603_Pres.pdfhttp://www.aall.org/prod ucts/pub_sp0603/pub_sp0603_Pres.pdf AALL’s National Advocacy Efforts,” 10 AALL Spectrum 4, 41 (Feb. 2006) http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0602/pub_sp0602_Pres.pdf “Enhancing the Visibility of Law Librarians,” 10 AALL Spectrum 4, 26 (Nov. 2005) http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0511/pub_sp0511_Pres.pdf “Pioneering Change in the Centennial Year,” 10 AALL Spectrum 4, 22 (Sept. 2005). http://www.aall.org/products/pub_sp0509/pub_sp0509_Pres.pdf“ Le Projet GPO visant conserver l'ensemble des données juridiques publiques américaines (Nov. 3, 2004) http://lsr.nellco.org/cornell/clsops/papers/17/.ea “Approaches to Statutory Interpretation and Legislative History in France,” 13 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 195-206