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International Association of Law Libraries
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MEMBERS' NEWS 
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NEWS from IALL MEMBERS
IALL notes with sadness the passing of
Professor Igor Kavass on April 6,
2008. As many of you know, Igor was the
President of IALL from1976-83. Arno Liivak, a
former IALL Treasurer and editor of IJLI,
commented that “IALL as a true international
association would not have occurred without
someone of Igor’s personality and class.” Igor
spoke fluently Spanish, Russian, German, English,
and Latvian, and knew French and other
languages. He had a vision of what an
organization might do, drawing on his own
international background and cross-cultural
experiences, from Australia to the United States
and his European heritage. He could reach out to
law librarians as well as to professors of law,
substantive law experts, and people in
government, to organize conferences and publish
in IJLI. Igor could talk about any topic, he had
a wide range of interests and he remained an
inquisitive student all his life. In his later
career, he was instrumental in bringing Ukraine to the WTO.
More in
Law Librarian Blog and
The Tennessean Obituary.
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