21st Century International, Foreign and Comparative Law Research Issues

Earlier I wrote about Lee Peoples’s article, “The Use of Foreign Law by the Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the European Communities.”  Lee’s article is part of a great symposium issue that arrived in today’s mail, with contributions from many law librarians.  Here are the details:

Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce

Volume 35, issue No. 2, Spring 2008

Symposium: 21st Century International, Foreign and Comparative Law Research Issues.

Introduction

Minding the Gap: 21st Century International, Foreign and Comparative Law Research Issues, by Thomas R. French

Articles

Gaps in International Legal Literature, by Lyonette Louis-Jacques

Tyranny of the Available: Under-represented Topics, Approaches, and Viewpoints, by Marci Hoffman and Katherine Topulos

Gauging the Impact of Online Legal Information on International Law: Two Tests, by Mary Rumsey

The Use of Foreign Law by the Advocates General of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, by Lee Faircloth Peoples

Perferably in English: Surfing the Pacific in Search of Law in Translation, by Mary Sexton

A Brief History of Brazilian Biofuels Legislation, by Juscelino F. Colares

Codes and Hypertext: The Intertextuality of International and Comparative Law, by Marylin J. Raisch

Following Deskaheh’s Legacy: Reclaiming the Cayuga Indian Nation’s Land Rights at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, by Carrie E. Garrow

Gaps in International Legal LIterature: A Skeptical Reppaisal, by Lyonette Louis-Jacques

 

We are cataloging this important issue as a monograph.

The Google Dilemma

“The Google Dilemma”

New York Law School Law Review, Forthcoming
NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08/09#2

Web search is critical to our ability to use the Internet. Whoever controls search engines has enormous influence on all of us; whoever controls the search engines, perhaps, controls the Internet itself. This short essay (based on talks given in January and April 2008 ) uses the stories of five famous search queries to illustrate the conflicts over search and the enormous power Google wields in choosing whose voices are heard on the Internet.

 

Source: LSN Young Scholars Law APS Vol. 5 No. 36,  08/04/2008

JAMES GRIMMELMANN, New York Law School