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L Newsetter October 2020
FOREIGN, COMPARATIVE, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW SPECIAL INTEREST SECTION
From the Chair 2
FCIL Librarians Re-
spond to the COVlD
-19 Pandemic
Report on Covid-19
Response in Ireland
2020 Business
Meeting Minutes
Committee and
Interest Group
Reports
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Recent Member 25
Publications
AALS Annual Meeting,
The Power of Words,
January 5-9, 2021
(Virtual).
ALA Midwinter Meeting
& Exhibits, January 22-
26, 2021 (Virtual).
ASIL Annual Meeting,
Reconceiving Interna-
tional Law: Creativity in
Times of Crisis, March
24-27, 2021 in Washing-
ton, DC.
Alison Shea
One of the most wonderful aspects of be-
ing part of the foreign, comparative, and
international law (FCIL) librarian communi-
ty is our incredible enthusiasm to dissemi-
nate information from all over the world.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020
has cancelled all of the in-person gatherings
which many of us look forward to each
year, the members of the FCIL-SIS have
not sat idly by. From the very start of the
pandemic, many of our members have en-
gaged in a project which aims to gather in-
formation on how different countries have
responded to the pandemic.
This article is intended to memorialize the
development of this project, which will
hopefully serve as a historical point of refer-
ence for future FCIL-SIS members. It will
also serve as an introduction to the Europe-
an Law IG's series of reports, with the first
report on Ireland directly following the con-
clusion of this article.
After ensuring the health and safety of our
families and loved ones, and, for most of
us, establishing a new work-from-home
routine, some of our FCIL-SIS members
embarked on a new initiative to track vari-
ous countries' responses to COVID-19.
This initiative can be credited to Marcelo
Rodriguez, Research and Training Librarian
at the US Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit. In his DzpLawMatic Dialogues blog
post of March 30, 2020, Marcelo stated that
the impetus for tracking responses to
COVID-19 came not only from his concern
for family, friends and colleagues in Latin
America, but also from the desire to high-
light what was happening outside of our
own country. I'd like to think that we
have the expertise and the network to strive
for a more comprehensive and nuanced
understanding either right away or in the
future, Marcelo said, I hope this project
achieves that and more.1
Beginning almost at the very start of the
COVID lockdown, the FCIL-SIS Latin
American Law Interest Group and Latino
Caucus started recruiting authors to moni-
tor COVID-19 legal responses in the Latin
America and Caribbean region. The first
report covering Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru
was released on March 27, 2020; six more
biweekly reports were posted on DkLaw-
Matic Dialogues covering additional coun-
tries.2
In July 2020, the project switched from blog
posts to new, stand-alone reports published
on a dedicated website. These new reports
feature collaborations between FCIL-SIS
members and librarians working in the vari-
ous Latin American countries; as of Octo-
ber 2020 there have been ten reports issued
covering Bolivia, Brazil, Haiti, Martinique
and Guadalupe, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad
and Tobago, as well as regional overviews
in some topics.
1 Marelo Rodriguez, Updates on CO VIl-19 in Latin America
and the Caribbean: Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, DIPLAWMATci
DiALOCUES (Mar. 30, 2020), https:
i ilsis.xx udpresni/3 o 0uds--Cn i19-i-
latin-amrica- and-dh-caribban-bolixa-paraua-pcru/
[https://perma.cc/F9NL-T6Q7].
2 See Biweekl Reports: hups:
lawlibrariansmoniuxingc> eidl9.n/o3/202 e/U /t3 /cxampc-
pOst-3/ [https://perma.cc/BQ9-XBF8].
3 See COVID-19 Reports on Latin America and the Carib-
bean ht is:/
lawlibrariimsmonioin'er idl9.eo2n/3 /e e/ 3 /cnamplc-
pst-3 / [https://perma.cc/BJQ9-XBF8].
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