Posted in International Law on Jul 27th, 2010
JusticeUpdated is a blog available on the Worldcourts.com website. The stated purpose of the blog is “to keep those interested in ICL and ‘universal jurisdiction’ up-to-date by providing summary information about new developments in these fields.” JusticeUpdated began in March 2010, and has proven to be a good resource if you are looking to keep [...]
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Posted in International Law on Jul 7th, 2010
The Foreign, Comparative & International Law (FCIL) SIS invites you to attend a 2010 Annual Meeting event: FCIL-SIS Executive Committee Presents Conflict of Laws in a Federation: The Nigerian Experience This year’s presenter is Ufuoma Lamikanra, recipient of the 2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians. She is the Readers’ Services Librarian at the [...]
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has online legal office called FAOLEX. A multilingual team summarizes and in many cases translates laws and regulations on topics falling within FAO’s mandate – agriculture, cultivated plants, environment, fisheries, food, forestry, land and soil, livestock, water and wild species and ecosystems. Legal information is received by [...]
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The Pace Law Library published another resource guide. Check out our newest addition, International Legal Research Guide. This is a guide to international public and private law, with an emphasis on international public law. This guide presents print, digital, subscription and free online resources to international legal research. It is organized by the type of [...]
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Posted in International Law on Jun 1st, 2009
Pace Law Library has compiled another research guide, this time it is International Commercial Law. This research guide is to assist students with research in the areas of International Commercial Law, International Trade, International Commercial Arbitration, and Foreign Domestic Commercial Law. This guide was originally created to assist Pace Law School students attendeding an International [...]
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Posted in Legal Research & Writing on Mar 27th, 2009
From the Library of Congress Military Legal Resources website: This reference work, published by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), is intended to serve both the university community and law practitioners, and broadly reaches out to students and faculties in law, journalism and political science, as well as members of the judiciary. It [...]
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Posted in International Law on Dec 9th, 2008
Dec. 10, 2008 is the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN General Assembly, which is celebrated as Human Rights Day. The UDHR is not a treaty or international agreement, but the first global statement proclaiming the importance of basic human rights to the world community. It [...]
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Posted in International Law on Oct 30th, 2008
The United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law is a new website which includes a collection of lectures “on virtually every subject of international law given by leading international law scholars and practitioners from different regions, legal systems, cultures and sectors of the legal profession.” The site is easy to navigate, and I was able [...]
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