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1 Newsl. Foreign Comp. Int'l L. Special Int. Sec. [i] (1987)

handle is hein.lbr/aafcnlt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section by Dan Wade Our trompetero heralds the inaugural issue of this newsletter, while the demure Japanese figure gazes in wonder at its appearance. In this issue you will find our Secretary's report of the last meeting in Washington, our Chair's comments about work in progress, and announcements about next summer's AALL meeting in Chicago, the post-meeting workshop, and the IALL pre- meeting course on international law. A special feature is the piece by Fred Chapman of Harvard on Alternative Means of Obtaining the Documents of the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal. By the grace of providence, this spring there will be at least one more issue of this newsletter, which for the moment must be considered an irregular serial. Your contributions are earnestly sought, both for the newsletter, as well as the SIS column in the AALL Newsletter. Only by your participation can our SIS reach its full potential! The editor wishes to thank all those who contributed to this first issue, as well as Robert Downie and his staff at Baker & Botts who so ably prepared the typescript. From the Chair by Linda L. Thompson This is the first issue of the SIS Newsletter since the 1986 AALL annual meeting in Washington, D.C. I would like to express my thanks to the outgoing Chair, Claire Germain, for launching this SIS and giving it the momentum to carry on. She did a fine job of establishing contacts and sorting out some administrative problems. Your officers this year are Ellen Schaffer, Vice Chair/Chair Elect, and Jeanette Yackle, Secretary/Treasurer. Jeanette is covering last summer's SIS meeting for you elsewhere in this Newsletter. Dan Wade has agreed to be the editor of this SIS Newsletter as well as to continue producing the monthly SIS column for the AALL Newsletter, so please send your newsworthy contributions to him (University of Houston Law Center Library, 4800 Calhoun, Houston, Texas 77004). Dan also produced the SIS membership directory last spring. Last spring, the SIS acquired the Special Committee on International Placements, and I appointed RobertaShaffer to be Chair for this year. See her item in this Newsletter regarding CIP information and its name change. All CIP members must now be members of this SIS, and anyone in the SIS who is interested in working on the CIP can do so without payment of additional fees. Jolande Goldberg and Malo Bernal have agreed to work on a publicity brochure for this SIS which can be displayed at the SIS Council booth next summer in Chicago. If you have any catchy ideas for logos or color or content, please contact them at the Library of Congress. I am sure they would welcome your suggestions. Last summer's meeting also produced a lot of enthusiastic volunteers who agreed to do three programs and a workshop at the 1987 meeting in Chicago. Two programs and the workshop were approved by AALL so I hope to see you in attendance. These are written up elsewhere in this Newsletter. At this time, we have 116 members. There was a mix-up regarding dues for this SIS in the invoices mailed by AALL for 1986/87, and some names of people who were members last year and who thought they were members this year do not appear on the membership list. If you know of anyone who did not receive this Newsletter who should have, please tell them to call AALL Headquarters to sort things out. The staff there are aware of the problem and have tried to help. A Nominating Committee has been appointed to select candidates for next year's officers. If you have an interest in running for office, or if you would like to take on responsibility for a special committee or project, please let me know. Some ideas were proposed at last summer's meeting for committees and projects, and they are still under consideration. Dan Wade, Editor University of Houston Law Center Library Produced by the staff of Baker & Botts, 3000 One Shell Plaza Houston, Texas 77002

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