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9 Int'l Ass'n L. Libr. Bull. 1 (1963)

handle is hein.journals/ialibbul9 and id is 1 raw text is: Il d4h AU U MA I - .tWtCIOkW RV U 0S00 01 blVA'vUI I S BULLETIN Editor: Professor Dr. B. LANDHEER Number IX October 1963 LIBRARIAN'S REFLECTIONS ON RESEARCH ON THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMDIUfJN by Frank Lukes Law Librarian of Baker, McKenzie &-Hightower, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. I. New legal developments in any form naturally create new challenges or problems for lawyers and consequently for law librarians, be it from the legal or technical point of view. One of the develop- ments of greatest interest to the legal profession is the creation and growth of the European Economic Community. Legal material on the Community is in constant demand both in academic and in private libraries. Law librarians outside of the Community are aware of the trend toward regional, economic and legal entities. It is, therefore, necessary to sketch briefly the principles or researching and collecting material on regional communities. II. Roughly, interest in the Community has been shown by the following categories of researchers - categories which often overlap: Scholars who study the nature of the new body of supranational law as well as its consequences for municipal law and private inter- national law; students of public international law and international organizations, and attorneys for foreign enterprises wishing to expand in and into the Community. We are excluding economists, historians, market-researchers and others, who are more interested in the conse- quences of legal developments than in the legal problems themselves. Libraries are institutions of service. Their collections will, no doubt, try to fit the needs of the particular groups of their users. The burden of selection of proper material will be carried on by librarians. A. To select proper material, it is of the utmost importance to differentiate between the research on the Community and that on laws applicable in the Community. While the'first involves legal provisions of the Community,its legal nature, its organs and their functions, the latter will involve the researcher in the complexus of material which is mostly, but not all, described as foreign law. The first researcher encounters a completely new legal system with provisions not going further back than to the European Coal and Steel Community, with relatively few organs, little jurisprudence, and only recent supranational trend in the European legal history. The latter will have to research material encompassing provisions of municipal law of six Member States, each of which has an old civil law tradition. Since this simple fact, this duality of researcr, has not yet been pointed out until recently, the collecting of material has been confusing.(1) The researcher found himself eitlier lost in a virtual labyrinth of material - mostly in foreign

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