By Francesco Fasano On March 12th, the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee of the FCIL-SIS hosted a webinar titled “What in the World is Happening… in the Russian War against Ukraine and Global Accountability,” as part of its What in the World webinar series highlighting current global events.  Paul Moorman from USC Gould School of Law hosted the webinar. The featured speaker was Iryna Zaverukha, a legal scholar from L’viv, Ukraine, currently at USC Gould School of Law.  This was an update to last year’s webinar on the crisis in Ukraine, coming at an important and harrowing mi ..read more

By Juan-Andrés Fuentes A few days ago, a well-known and user-friendly online platform that enables people to book accommodations, including houses and rooms, around the world, updated its policy on major disruptive events.[1] Photo by Markus Spiske You might be asking, “What is a major disruptive events policy?” This type of policy regulates how this platform handles cancellations when unforeseen circumstances prevent guests from using the service/space in the manner and time outlined by the booked reservation. This policy update will only apply to events or situations in the place where the r ..read more

By Elaine Tornés Blanco Are most of the international law journals in the region available for open access, and are they published online, in print, or a combination of both? Tell us about the influence of U.S. and European scholars on the proliferation of international journals in Latin America and whether there were transnational or continental influences in your research. Were the journals copying each other in terms of themes and methodological approaches? How does the Latin American Network of International Law Journals (RELAREDI) plan to address the challenges of standardization and ind ..read more

By Jonathan Pratter When scanning the news I like to keep an eye out for stories that refer to international legal documents of note, and then see if I can find the full text of the document. I have three examples of international legal documents in the news. Photo by brotiN biswaS on Pexels.com Readers of this blog will be tuned into the fact that plastic pollution is a serious issue of international concern. According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) 400 million tons of plastic waste are produced per year, much of it single-use plastic. Also according to UNEP it is estimated that 75 to ..read more

  1. Where did you grow up? Kingston, Jamaica 2. Why did you select law librarianship as a career?  Law librarianship is a second career for me and I was drawn to it because of my love of law, research, and information organization. 3. When did you develop an interest in foreign, comparative, and/or international law?  I think I can trace the interest to two periods in my life: the first is when I took a course called Law of the Sea as a part of my master’s in international relations/government, and the second is when I started working at the United Nations Development Program ..read more

By Juan-Andrés Fuentes Migration and citizenship have become increasingly relevant topics of discussion both nationally and internationally. For instance, last February, the Albanian Congress approved a treaty with Italy allowing for the temporary accommodation of migrants in Albanian territory while their asylum requests are being processed by Italian authorities.[1] In addition, just a few days ago, the Maltese government initiated the process of revoking the citizenship of the CEO of a cyber spyware company.[2] The reason behind it  would be the development of a powerful surveillance t ..read more

By Lucie Olejnikova GlobaLex January/February 2024 issue is live featuring seven updates: Australia, Ethiopia, the African Continental Free Trade Area, Comparative Immigration Law: Australia, Canada, and the United States, Housing Rights, Indigenous Peoples International Law, and Sustainable Development Law. Webmasters and content managers, please update your pages. We thank all our wonderful authors, new and established, for their excellent contributions and commitment to open access authorship! UPDATE: Researching the Resources for the Australian Federal Legal System with Some Reference to t ..read more

Not sure what databases and books to buy to support foreign, comparative, and international law research for your law school, firm, or public law library? Join us on March 21, 2024, at 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CST for a panel on foreign, comparative, and international law collection development. The panel will feature speakers Alex Burdett (Reference/Foreign & International Law Librarian, New York University School of Law), Laura Cadra (Senior Collection Development Librarian, Loyola Marymount Law School, Los Angeles), Sherry Chen (Associate Director for Collection Strategy, Penn Law School ..read more

  1. Where did you grow up? I grew up on two Caribbean islands, overlooking El Morro de La Habana in Cuba and 15 minutes by car from El Escambrón Beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican poet exiled in Cuba, Lola Rodríguez de Tió, was not wrong when she said that “Cuba and Puerto Rico are of one bird the two wings.”  During my childhood, I also lived for two years in Santiago de Chile, Chile.   2. Why did you select law librarianship as a career?  I thought Law School was my last step, but it was just the beginning because it took me to be a Law Library Fellow ..read more

By Jonathan Pratter Our law school has a writing seminar titled Transnational Class Actions. A good number of questions come to me as the FCIL librarian from students in the seminar who are looking for reference assistance of various kinds. This semester questions have come from students looking for potential paper topics and for cases on point. This raises the question of how much the librarian should know substantively about a subject in order to provide reference assistance. In the course of several years of providing library support to the Transnational Class Actions seminar, including col ..read more