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36 FCIL Newsl. 1 (2021-2022)

handle is hein.lbr/aafcnlt0036 and id is 1 raw text is: FCIL Volume 36, Issue 1 FCL Newsletter October 2021 FOREIGN, COMPARATIVE, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW SPECIAL INTEREST SECTION From the Chair 2 Have a Wonderful Retirement, Marylin! 2021 Business Meeting Minutes Committee and Interest Group Reports Resource Reviews: EU Legal Materials in Westlaw and Lexis Resource Reviews: Mechanism for the International Court of Justice Case Database Fake Law: The Truth about justice in an Age of Lies Recent Member Publications 3 4 6 17 18 19 AALS Annual Meeting, Freedom, Equality, and the Common Good, January 5-9, 2022 (Virtual). ALA Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits, January 21- 24, 2022 (Virtual). ASIL Annual Meeting, Personalizing Interna- tional Law, April 6-9, 2022 in Washington, DC. Mabel Shaw, Heather Casey, and Charles Bjork Have you ever played six degrees of sepa- ration with friends? And have you met Marylin Raisch? This means that you are within two degrees of Queen Elizabeth II! Marylin met the Queen while getting her masters of English at Oxford. This is just one of many entertaining facts I learned about Marylin in the years we worked to- gether at Georgetown Law Library. Heather, Charles, and I would like to share our memories of working with Marylin. Have a wonderful retirement, Marylin! Marylin is well known in our FCIL commu- nity for her contributions to the profession and she serves as a role model for many people. Her deep knowledge of FCIL sources and vendors along with her profes- sional connections to librarians around the globe are invaluable and irreplaceable. Marylin has boundless energy for profes- sional activities. It was common for her to be chairing an SIS subcommittee, moderat- ing an AALL program, planning a group dinner out with colleagues, and attending training sessions to further her own knowledge - all at the same time. I wanted to write about some of our adven- tures while working together at Georgetown. Marylin came to Georgetown in February of 2004 when we were sched- uled to move the entire FCIL collection to a separate library in a new building six months later. She arrived in the thick of our planning and jumped right in. We had many long days, long meetings, and long laughs about how crazy our world was at the time. There was the professor who showed up in the middle of the move and asked if we could look on the truck for the book he needed. Or how we spent part of the move wearing hard hats until the official certificate of occupancy came through. Or how we hired a new FCIL librarian whose first day was the exact first day of the move. I'll also never forget being at the AALL West party and looking over to see Marylin smiling and dancing to Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer. Good times! As Marylin moves on to her next adventure in life, we extend our very best wishes for her new chapter. Always the learner, she is pursuing a degree of Doctor of Liberal Studies, and true to form, she has already mapped out her thesis topic. My advice to her fellow classmates: make friends with Marylin, since she takes the most detailed and meticulous notes! We could always rely on her meeting notes for specific details on what was discussed and decided even years later. This was very useful because we have lots of meetings at Georgetown. I used to tease her that she must have been super popular in law school! Marylin was always very supportive of her staff. I remember, when interviewing for my current position here at Georgetown, she asked me to name a database I would use to look for a particular piece of infor- mation. Caught off-guard, I listed a couple of different places and admitted I wasn't sure they were what she was looking for. Without belittling me, she was able to ex- plain why the databases I'd mentioned weren't the most efficient ones to use and she laid out which database she would use in the situation. That's one thing I've always admired about Marylin; she's very willing to share her continued on page 3

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