Gain an international perspective on law library practices and precedents! Because law librarianship is an increasingly international field, working and learning abroad can enrich you culturally and professionally. Whether you visit for a few weeks or move halfway across the world for a year or more, Law Librarians Abroad gives you information about exchange programs, tips for adapting to a different culture, and ideas on how to make the most of a life-changing experience. Law Librarians Abroad explains a number of types of work you may find in other countries: US Information Agency or UN library programs informal visits formal exchange programs teaching clients or colleagues to use new technologies temporary library positions combining personal research with library work Some of the contributors to this exciting volume visited completely different cultures. Their new experiences included seeing snow for the first time and scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef. One went home to Korea after 25 years in the United States. Law Librarians Abroad offers practical suggestions as well: pitfalls and pleasures of living in a foreign country how to set up an exchange or plan a visiting librarian program how to build friendships with librarians abroad before you go In countries from Canada to Zimbabwe, on every continent except Antarctica, the authors of Law Librarians Abroad combined work and travel--and you can too!
This text for library and information science courses on law librarianship introduces students to the rapidly evolving world of law librarianship.
This International Handbook addresses the policy and strategic issues with which legal information managers and law librarians need to engage in the context of the diverse legal environments in which they work.
In 1968, a task force appointed by President Lyndon Johnson recommended that companies with a greater than 15 per cent market share be forced to divest a portion of their assets to smaller competitors (Posner 1976, 101–17; Reback 2009, ...
During my time with the Netherlands MFA , I was responsible for international criminal law , international humanitarian law , and terrorism . In 2006 , after five years at the MFA , I was offered a position as the International ...
For this study, seven recent law review articles were selected at random: Stephen R. Barnett, “The Right to One's Own Image”: Publicity and Privacy Rights in the United States and Spain, 47 Am. J. Comp. L. 555 (1999).
European Law Libraries Guide
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource.
... 319 Brooks, Robin, 46 Brown, Ben, 32 Brown, Christopher C., 373 Brownridge, Heather, 415 Bruce, Christine S., 77, ... Melvina Azar, 47 D'Aniello, Charles A., 377 Daniels, Wes, 427 Davis, Harry, 48 Davis, Kaetrena D., 142 Davis, ...
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource.
Introduction to legal systems. Chapters include: The common law from a civil lawyer's perspective, by Philippo Bruno; Comparative law: academic perspectives and practical legal realities, by Daniel L. Wade; Introduction...