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6 FCIL Newsl. 1 (1991-1992)

handle is hein.lbr/aafcnlt0006 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 6 Number 1 October 1991 FCIL Newsletter Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section, American Association of Law Libraries LETTER FROM THE SECTION CHAIR by Amber Lee Smith There were so many things going on in New Orleans and there was so little time, that several projects which require the expertise of members of the FCIL Section must be carried out by mail and by FAX over the next few months. In this issue of the Newsletter, you will find a survey form which David McFadden and I designed, and a request from Claire Germain for volunteers to work on projects that will be carried out jointly by the FCIL SIS and the National Legal Resources Committee. These projects are the result of the Workshop and the Town Meeting on Training the Next Ceneration of Foreign Law Librarians, and they include preparing a brochure describing the preparation and work of foreign and international law librarians, gathering information on internship programs here and abroad, and working out a curriculum for a 1993 mid- winter institute on legal systems of different countries. The purpose of the survey is to gather information about librarians who currently handle any aspect of foreign and international law on a full-time or a part- time basis. This information will be used to draft a brochure for distribution to those who are interested in a career as a foreign and international law librarian. The ideas for the survey are derived, with permission, from an issue paper, The Education, Training, and Experience of Foreign and International Law Librarians Now Working in United States Law Libraries prepared by Dan Wade for the Planning Session on Training the Next Generation of Foreign and International Law Librarians held in New Orleans on July 19, 1991. Please fill out the survey (beginning on p. 15 of this Newsletter) and be sure that anyone else in your library to whom the survey applies fills it out as well. David McFadden has agreed to collate the data, which will be published in a later issue of the newsletter and given to those working on drafting the brochure. A draft of the curriculum for the 1993 mid-winter institute will be circulated for comments later in the fall. Please watch for that mailing. Thanks to the hard work of Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Chair of the Education/Program Committee, all of the program ideas from our SIS (there were at least eight) got to the AALL Education Committee on time and in great form. On a completely different note, there is a particularly lucid explanation of the problems on working with foreign law in translation beginning on page 10 of an article by Rodolfo Sacco, Legal Formants: A Dynamic Approach to Comparative Law, 39 American Journal of Comparative Law 1 (1991). I would make it required reading for every law student (and professor and attorney) who wants to know why something isn't available in English. INSIDE San Francisco 1992 ... p. 3 LC Foreign Law Schedules ... p. 4 INT-LAW Electronic Bulletin Board ... p. 5 IALL in Heidelberg ... p. 6 Reports from New Orleans ... p. 7 SIS Officers and Committees ... p. 14

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