scholarly journals Laying the Foundations for Law Library Co-operation around the world

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 201-203
Author(s):  
David Gee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Information Transfer ◽  
School Library ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Law School ◽  
Global Network ◽  
New York University ◽  
Virtual Reference ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
Law Library

In October 2002 I was lucky enough to spend three stimulating days at the New York University Law School Library participating in the annual Legal Information Transfer Network workshop. The Legal Information Transfer Network (ITN) is funded by a generous grant from The Starr Foundation (established in 1955 by insurance entrepreneur Cornelius Van der Starr) and is headed by the dynamic Director of the NYU Law School Library, Professor Kathie Price. ITN aims to establish a global network of prestigious law libraries which ultimately can offer a 24/7 virtual reference service, both to its own partner libraries in the developed world and to academic legal communities in less developed countries. Previous annual workshops in such cities as Lausanne in Switzerland have given senior librarians from ITN partner libraries the opportunity to meet and make progress on issues such as providing a global virtual reference desk, sharing database access across the libraries, developing interactive legal research guides, and creating imaginative training programmes for local law librarians in China and Southern Africa (http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/itn). Between workshops the exchange of ideas is continued by email discussion. Currently the list of law library partners includes New York University, Washington University in Seattle, Toronto University in Canada, IALS Library in the UK, the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, Tilburg University in the Netherlands, Konstanz University in Germany, Cape Town University in South Africa, Melbourne University in Australia, Yerevan State University in Armenia, and Tsinghua University in China.

Retirement of the Co-Editors in Chief

1998 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 490-490
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Law School ◽  
New York University ◽  
Vanderbilt University

The AJIL Board of Editors wishes to announce the retirement of the Co-Editors in Chief, Professors Theodor Meron of the New York University School of Law and Detlev Vagts of Harvard Law School. As of the October 1998 issue, the editorial leadership will be assumed by Professors Jonathan Charney of the Vanderbilt University School of Law and W. Michael Reisman of Yale Law School.

Opening Remarks

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-167
Author(s):  
S. Blair Kauffman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
International Law ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
Yale University ◽  
Sunday Afternoon ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Law Library

The papers in this issue were presented at the IALL's 21st Annual Course on International Law Librarianship, held at Yale Law School, October 20 through October 23, 2002. The program featured several of America's great scholars in international law and drew on the rich resources of Yale University and its environs. It also introduced participants to the history of legal education in America and included excursions to America's first national law school, in Litchfield, Connecticut, and to the United Nations headquarters, in New York City. A pre-conference reception was held at the nearby Quinnipiac University School of Law Library, on Sunday afternoon, October 20th, in Hamden, Connecticut, and a post-conference institute on Islamic Law, was held on October 24th, at Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Integration Of Engineering And Business Education In A Global-Network University

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-152
Author(s):  
Harold P. Sjursen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Abu Dhabi ◽  
New York University ◽  
Liberal Arts Education ◽  
Baccalaureate Degrees

AbstractNew York University characterizes itself as a global-network university. It currently offers (or soon will) engineering and business/management curricula leading to baccalaureate degrees on campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. The programs are designed to be interoperable, i.e., students (and faculty) can move from campus to campus while staying on track in their particular course of study. This objective of interoperability raises interesting issues regarding the internationalization of engineering and technical education. Additionally, at Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, the engineering and business management programs are tightly integrated with classical, western liberal arts education. This paper will explore the variety of educational and philosophical issues of this approach. The paper will offer a favourable assessment of the approach while acknowledging the profound challenges it entails.

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 897-900
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
International Law ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Foreign Debt ◽  
International Investment ◽  
Law School ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
New York University ◽  
Customary International Law ◽  
The University

Explores topics in the economic approach to international law. Discusses the fundamentals of international law; economic analysis of international law—the essentials; sovereignty and attributes of statehood; customary international law; treaties; international institutions; state responsibility; remedies; the intersection between international law and domestic law; treatment of aliens, foreign property, and foreign debt; the use of force; the conduct of war; human rights; international criminal law; international environmental law; the law of the sea; international trade; and international investment, antitrust, and monetary law. Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Sykes is Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law.

“Over There and Over Here”: Some Observations on Recent Reader Services Developments at four Academic Legal Researh Libraries

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gee
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Yale University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Perpetual Motion ◽  
Creative Space ◽  
To Come

Every night for ten nights last May, I returned to room 128 in the Westside YMCA (West 63rd Street, New York City – just off Central Park) armed with more behind the scenes insights, professional secrets and first hand accounts of US law library operation and management than one slim A5 notebook could hope to hold. I was fortunate to be in the United States on a two-week placement at Columbia University, visiting some of America's great law libraries – the law school libraries of Columbia itself, New York University and Yale University. Each morning, after orange juice, coffee and a toasted cream cheese bagel, I would head out with the commuters to join the subway at Columbus Circle – uptown for Columbia or downtown for NYU. Every evening I would admire the energy of the mostly silver-haired athletes in brightly coloured lycra returning to the Westside “Y” after numerous circuits of the Jackie “O” reservoir on the upper east side of Central Park. The park is 843 acres of creative space bounded by impressive hotels, apartment blocks and the streets of Harlem. In May it is in perpetual motion from dawn to dusk with joggers, roller-bladers and cyclists weaving their way around the trees, fountains and numerous statues. Indeed it appears to be a huge magic garden, complete with beautiful street lamps that seem to come from C.S. Lewis's Narnia – another world, like the City itself, at once familiar and fascinatingly different.

The Legal Education of the First Chinese American Admitted to the New York Bar in the Twentieth Century and his Crusade to End Discrimination Against Ethnic Chinese in America

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-229
Author(s):  
Li Chen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Chinese American ◽  
Law School ◽  
New York University ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
American Law

AbstractThis article attempts to reveal how a typical first generation Chinese American activist set out to go to law school to learn the skill set to help fight against racial prejudice directed at the Chinese in the early twentieth century. It examines how Hua Chuen Mei, a first-generation Chinese American lawyer was educated and trained in America; it primarily traces his undergraduate and law school education at Columbia and New York University Law School from 1910–1914 to show how he overcame the odds and excelled academically to complete his undergraduate and law degree programs with flying colors. It revisits his extracurricular activities to understand what motivated early Chinese immigrants like him to seek legal education, and what issues were uppermost in the mind of a typical Chinese American law student in that era.

The Virtual Law School Library

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 615-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Pengelley
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
School Libraries ◽  
Law School ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Law Library

What do the next twenty years hold for law school libraries? How will they look in 2021? What will be in them? Who will use them? Will we still use books, or will everything be accessed through an electronic medium? These questions are canvassed in the context of a law school library that is, in 2001, uneasily poised at a junction where signposts point to alternative futures for the delivery of legal education itself.I. IntroductionWe seem, yet again, to be at one of those moments in time, so common in the last quarter of the 20th century, and likely to be continuous in the 21st, when the future appears as a melting pot of possibilities for law libraries, particularly university law libraries. This time the uncertainty is largely driven by the potential advent of Web-based learning, and the as yet largely undeveloped nature of the law school response to the possibilities of education outside of the traditional classroom model. Uncertainty is also due to the growing awareness that IT literacy is increasing rapidly among our user community, and that students in particular now prefer electronic sources of information over print – sources which, increasingly, they can access from places other than the physical law library.

A Comparison of Four Premier Academic Law Libraries in the United States and the United Kingdom: The Findings of a Valuable International Placement

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 520-534
Author(s):  
David Gee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
New York University ◽  
Central Park ◽  
Perpetual Motion ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
To Come

Every night for ten nights last May, I returned to room 128 in the Westside YMCA (West 63rd Street, New York City — just off Central Park) armed with more behind the scenes insights, professional secrets and first hand accounts of US law library operation and management than one slim A5 notebook could hope to hold. I was fortunate to be in the United States on a two-week placement at Columbia University, visiting some of America's great law libraries — the law school libraries of Columbia itself, New York University and Yale University. Each morning after an orange juice, toasted cream cheese bagel and cappuccino, I would head out with the commuters to join the subway at Columbus Circle — uptown for Columbia or downtown for NYU. Every evening I would admire the energy of the mostly silver-haired athletes in brightly colored lycra returning to the Westside “Y” after numerous circuits of the Jackie “O” reservoir on the upper east side of Central Park. The park is 843 acres of creative space bound by impressive hotels, apartment blocks and the streets of Harlem. In May it is in perpetual motion from dawn to dusk with joggers, roller-bladers and cyclists weaving their way around the trees, fountains and numerous statues. Indeed it appears to be a huge magic garden, complete with beautiful street lamps that seem to come from C.S. Lewis's Narnia — another world, like the City itself, at once familiar and fascinatingly different.

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