Leitner Center for International Law and Justice at Fordham Law has launched its new visual overview of the international criminal tribunals, in which it provid[es] an introduction to the work of the international tribunals and the conflicts which led to their establishment. … This new 90-page report, providing analysis and information through written summaries and detailed [...]
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Via beSpecific, a new Australasian Colonial Legal History Library launched online. This Library includes databases of Australasian legal history accessible via AustLII. Catalog and Websearch enables browsing of Australasian legal history related materials on other websites as does Law on Google. Databases are divided into New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, New Zealand, and Law Journals and Legal Scholarship. Further, researchers [...]
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It is the time again to let you all know about the new additions the library has recently acquired for our Law In Film Collection, which is located on the main floor of the library. All patrons with borrowing privileges may check any of those movies out for up to five (5) days and for free. [...]
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War Crimes Research Office compiled a report titled Expediting Proceedings at the International Criminal Court as part of the International Criminal Court Legal Analysis and Education Project of June 2011. In its less than one decade of existence, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has achieved a great deal, opening formal investigations into six situations involving some of the most serious [...]
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The World Top Incomes Database, … aims to providing convenient on line access to all the existent series. This is an ongoing endeavour, and we will progressively update the base with new observations, as authors extend the series forwards and backwards. Despite the database’s name, we will also add information on the distribution of earnings [...]
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This week, from May 23rd-27th, 2011, the Working Group III is holding its second session on online dispute resolution (ODR) at the UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law). A panel of leading private and public experts are meeting to report on work, initiatives, and exchange of information related to ODR. Annotated provisional agenda [...]
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Posted in International Law, Law Students on May 11th, 2011
On May 6, 2011, ASIL (American Society of International Law) Teaching International Law Interest Group and Pace Law School hosted a conference titled Teaching International Law Beyond Classroom: Engaging Students in Experiential Learning, in Web 2.0, and in Historical and Empirical Research, which was held at the New York State Judicial Institute at Pace Law School. [...]
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From the National Archives, the International research portal for records related to Nazi-era cultural property is available online. The International Research Portal is a collaboration of national and other archival institutions with records that pertain to Nazi-Era cultural property. These archival institutions, along with expert national and international organizations, are working together to extend public access [...]
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Posted in Criminal Law, International Law on May 2nd, 2011
Via Technorati, The Government of Kosovo decided to establish an institute for the investigation on war crimes. The war crimes institute will have the status of a public agency, which will work under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Kosovo. Its main focus will be to keep evidence of crimes and damages committed by Serbia in Kosovo [...]
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Posted in International Law on Feb 1st, 2011
Ms. Ufuoma Lamikanra, the Head of Readers’ Services Section at the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, at the University of Lagos in Nigeria, gave an excellent presentation titled Conflict of Laws in a Federation: The Nigerian Experience at the 2010 annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in Denver, Colorado, as part [...]
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