IALL ARCHIVES
Courses on International Law Librarianship: 1966-to Date
Courses on topics of international law librarianship and legal information have been a primary feature of IALL's educational program since 1966. The courses have been held at prominent institutions throughout the world at intervals of one to three years, and have been offered annually since 1993. Throughout its history, the International Journal of Legal Information has published advance information and reports on the courses, as well as selected papers. Since 1994, full proceedings from the courses have usually been published in the Journal. Proceedings from some courses, as well as from other IALL meetings and programs, have been published separately.(1) Listed below are the titles, locations and dates for the twenty-one courses offered through 2002:
"Course in Law Librarianship and Legal Bibliography with Special Reference to European Law"
University of Comparative Sciences
Luxembourg
25 September-1 October 1966
"Course in Law Librarianship and Legal Bibliography of Common Law, with Special Reference to English Law"
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
25-29 March 1969
3d Course: "Law and Legal Literature in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland"
Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Heidelberg, Germany
7-10 September 1970
4th Course: "The Unification of Private Law and Law and Legal Literature in Italy"
International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)
Rome, Italy
4-8 September 1972
5th Course: "The Legal Literature of the United States"
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C. USA
11-15 November 1974
6th Course: "The Legal System, Its Materials and Documentation in the Socialist Countries"
Hungarian Library of Parliament
Budapest, Hungary
16-20 August 1977
7th Course: "Japanese Law: Its Structure and Materials"
National Diet Library
Tokyo, Japan
4-8 September 1978
8th Course: "Australian and South Pacific Law: Structure and Materials"
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
10-15 May 1981
9th Course: "Crossroads in Comparative Constitutional Law Development"
George Washington University
Washington, D.C., USA
28 June - 2 July 1987
10th Course:"Legal Aspects of East-West Trade and the Law Librarian"
Hungarian Library of Parliament
Budapest, Hungary
5-10 June 1988
11th Course: "Legal Information Sources and Changing Times in Europe"
Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Heidelberg, Germany
8-11 September 1991
12th Course: "Catalonia, Spain, Europe, and Latin America - Regional Legal Systems and Their Literature"
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Barcelona, Spain
17-21 August 1993
13th Course: "International (Commercial) Arbitration and Law Libraries: A View from the Hague"
Peace Palace
The Hague, The Netherlands
26-29 September 1994
14th Course: "Current Trends in International Law: A Challenge for Law Librarians"
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
18-21 September 1995
15th Course: "Legal Developments and Legal Information on the Pacific Rim"
Sutton Place Hotel
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
29 September-3 October 1996
16th Course: "Human Rights Law: Global Issues and Information Services"
University of Lund
Lund, Sweden
24-28 August 1997
17th Course: "Unification of Private Law and the Italian Legal System"
International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)
Rome, Italy
20-24 September 1998
18th Course: "Australasian Law and Librarianship"
Old Treasury Building
Melbourne, Australia
12-16 September 1999
19th Course: "A Common Law for Europe: Legal Systems and Legal Information"
Dublin International Arbitration Centre of the Bar Council of Ireland
Dublin, Ireland
20-24 August 2000
20th Course: "Comparative and International Law in a Multilingual Environment: Current Issues and Information Resources"
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law
Lausanne, Switzerland
23-26 September 2001
21st Course: "Order from Chaos: Contexts for Global Legal Information"
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
20-23 October 2002
22nd Course: "New Rights - New Laws: Legal Information in a Changing World"
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
21-25 September 2003
23rd Course: "Protecting the Environment: a Challenge Across Borders - Legal Issues and Information Resources in Finland and Estonia"
University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
National Library of Estonia
Tallinn, Estonia
15th - 19th August, 2004
24th Course: "The European Union in the 21st Century: new challenges in law and legal information"
European University Institute
Badia Fiesolana, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy
4th - 8th September, 2005
25th Course: "The New Russia: Law and Legal Information"
St.Petersburg State University
at St.Petersburg, Russia
10th-14th September 2006
26th Course: "Global Challenges and the Indian Legal System"
National Centre for the Performing Arts
Mumbai, India
1st - 5th December 2007
27th Course: "Puerto Rico & The Caribbean: Legal Information in Multiple Legal Systems"
San Juan, Puerto Rico
30th November - 3rd December 2008
28th Course: "Turkey in a Global Context: Law and Legal Information"
Istanbul Bilgi University
11th - 15th October 2009
Footnote
(1) Information about the IALL courses and other educational offerings can be found in Adolf Sprudzs, "The International Association of Law Libraries and its Twenty-Five Years of Activities," 15 Law Librarian 50 (1984) and Adolf Sprudzs, "Thirty-Five Years of International Other Links: The Case of the IALL," 16 Law Librarian 321 (1995).