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--Towards the Human Rights Protection of Minority Languages in Africa by Innocent Maja
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Innocent Maja is the Senior Partner of a Zimbabwean law firm styled Maja and Associates Legal Practitioners. He is also the Executive Director of Centre for Minority Rights and Development, a Legal Director of the Anti-Piracy Organization of Zimbabwe and sits on various Boards as a Trustee including Centre for Human Rights and Development Swaziland, Domboshawa Theological College Trust, Glory Givers International, The Mozambiquan Community in Zimbabwe Trust and Shiloah Zimbabwe Trust. He holds a Bachelor of Laws Honors Degree from the University of Zimbabwe and a Master of Laws in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria and is currently pursuing an LLD. He is also a Lecturer in the Private Law Department with the University of Zimbabwe’s Faculty of Law.
-- Guide to Estonian Legal System and Legal Research by Jannu Kuusik and Kart Miil
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Jannu Kuusik is enrolled in a master degree program at the Universiy of Tartu Faculty of Law and works in Tallinn City Government as a legal adviser.
Kart Miil is a librarian at Tartu University Library.
-- UPDATE: Researching Ghanaian Law by Victor Essien
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Victor Essien holds LL.B.(Hons), LL.M. (Ghana), LL.M. (Int’l), and J.S.D. ( NYU) degrees. He is International Law Librarian and Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he teaches International Investment Law, Multinational Corporations Law and International and Foreign Legal Research. He was formerly Law Lecturer (on National Service) at the University of Ghana, Legon and the University of Jos, Nigeria. He was also a Consultant to the UNCTC in New York and a Legal Assistant to the Iran-US Claims Tribunal at The Hague, the Netherlands. He was admitted to the Ghana Bar in 1977. He is currently a Member of the Bars of New York State, United States District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and The United States Court of Appeals, Second and Third Circuits.
-- UPDATE: A Basic Guide to International Environmental Legal Research by Heidi Frostestad Kuehl
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Heidi Frostestad Kuehl is Research and Instructional Services Librarian at Pritzker Legal Research Center, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL. She holds a Law degree from Valparaiso University School of Law with a specialization in International Trade and Development and a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Iowa.
-- UPDATE: The Bulgarian Legal System and Legal Research by Angel Panayotov, Venelin Dimitrov, and Blagomir Minov
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Angel Panayotov practices law in Sofia; he was admitted to the Sofia Bar in 2005. He now works for the law firm Tsvetkova Bebov & Partners (Landwell Bulgaria). He graduated as an LLM student from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ochridski” in 2004. His area of legal practice is law of corporations and law of contracts.
Venelin Dimitrov practices law in Sofia; he was admitted to the Pleven Bar in 2003. He works for the law firm Tsvetkova Bebov & Partners (Landwell Bulgaria). He is a LLM graduate from the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ochridski” in 2002. Venelin Dimitrov is focused mostly on acquisitions, commercial transactions and collaterals.
Blagomir Minov practices law in Sofia; he was admitted to the Sofia Bar in 2004. He now works for the law firm Tsvetkova Bebov & Partners (Landwell Bulgaria). He graduated as an LLM student from the Sofia University St. Kliment Ochridski in 2003. His area of legal practice is real estate law, construction law and law of contracts.
-- UPDATE: A Research Guide to Ukrainian Law by Alexander Biryukov & Myroslava Kryvonos
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Alexander Biryukov is an Associate Professor of Law at the Institute of International Law of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University. He holds a Master of Arts in Law (Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University, 1984) and a PhD in Law / Candidate of Science (Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University, 1999). He co-authored a book called Law and Legal System of Ukraine, recently published at Juris Publishing Inc. He also wrote a number of books and more than 110 articles and notes on legal reform in Ukraine, including scholar articles for Ukrainian Law Encyclopedia and those published in American and European journals. Alexander Biryukov spent the 2000/2001 academic year at the New York University School of Law on the Fulbright Program. As a law professor he teaches civil and commercial law, including bankruptcy, investment law, securities and stock exchanges regulation, and private international law.
Myroslava Kryvonos has been a librarian at the Legal Library of the Ukrainian Legal Foundation in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2002 she received a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), U.S. Department of State under the Freedom Support Act (FSA) and completed a four months fellowship at the New York University Law Library. In 1971 she graduated from the Kyiv State University and holds the diploma of a specialist in the automatic processing of language information from this University.
More articles on international, comparative, and foreign law research at: http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html
Mirela Roznovschi
Editor
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