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![handle is hein.lbr/aafcnlt0008 and id is 1 raw text is: FCIL Newsletter
Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Section / American Association of Law Libraries
Volume 8 October 1993 Number 1
Message from the Chair
Jonathan Pratter
University of Texas Law Library
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not come.
-Francisco de Quevedo
May you live in interesting times.
--Curse pronounced in ancient China
Note that for the curse to come true, the
times do not have to be evil, though some
might think there is sufficient evil to go around
these days, in any case. Rather, the curse is
fulfilled when times are agitated, ambiguous,
DIANA VINCENT-DAVISS
With extreme sadness we report the
sudden and untimely passing of Diana Vincent-
Daviss, law librarian and professor of law at
Yale Law School, on Sept. 21, 1993. Before
coming to Yale, she had held a similar position
at New York University School of Law for eight
years. Early in her career Diana served as a
foreign and international law librarian, and as
an administrator she gave strong support to the
foreign and international collections at both
Yale and NYU. She also maintained a
scholarly interest in international human rights.
In 1993 she assumed the position of deputy
director of the Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for
International Human Rights at Yale and was
elected to the editorial advisory board for
International Legal Materials. Above all,
however, we will miss her vivacious personality
and her deep concern for the people around
her. A memorial service was held at New York
University on Oct. 12, and another is
scheduled for Yale on Nov. 6.
anxious, clouded, disturbed, doubtful, dubious,
enigmatic, incomprehensible, indefinite, in flux,
obscured, transitional, turbulent, and unsettled.
Does anyone doubt that today the curse has
come to pass? An entire political system has
passed from the scene, not to say that it has
been consigned to the ash heap of history. The
bipolar world has ended; the last remaining
superpower is suffering an identity crisis. Out
of the turmoil of the last few years several new
nations have arisen, phoenix-like. The UN
now has 180 members. New nations include:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovenia,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and
Uzbekistan. Measured only by the number and
scope of its peacekeeping actions, the UN
suddenly finds itself a major player, instead of
a talking shop. The EC meanwhile staggers
toward monetary and political union. The
observer of the world scene must feel like the
hiker who emerges from a forested trail onto a
wide vista, only to find that the landscape is
shrouded by fog.
For the members of the Foreign,
Comparative, and International Law SIS, recent
world history takes on a special significance.
By joining this SIS all of us have demonstrated
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