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- UPDATE: International Criminal Courts for the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone: A Guide to Online and Print Resources by Amy Burchfield
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/International_Criminal_Courts1.htm
Amy Burchfield is the Access and Faculty Services Librarian at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library. She previously worked as the International and Foreign Law Reference Librarian at the John Wolff International & Comparative Law Library at the Georgetown University Law Center. Ms. Burchfield earned her JD from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and an MLIS and MA in German translation from Kent State University. She is the author of International Sports Law.
--UPDATE: The Legal System and Research of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): An Overview by Dunia Zongwe, Francois Butedi and Clement Phebe
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Democratic_Republic_Congo1.htm
Dunia Zongwe is a fellow of the Institute for African Development at Cornell University. He holds an LL.M. from Cornell Law School (2008) and an LL.B. from the University of Namibia (2006). He recently published a paper on human rights and the exploitation of mineral resources in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Francois Butedi is a Congolese legal advisor and human rights activist with considerable experience in the courts of the DRC. The non-governmental organization (NGO) for which he works advised the government on several pieces of legislation and was actively involved in training and monitoring during the historic 2006 presidential and legislative elections in the DRC. He holds a law degree from the University of Kinshasa (2002) and is now reading for his LL.M. in Human Rights and Constitutional Practice at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Clement Phebe is assistant lecturer at the University of Kinshasa where he obtained a law degree. He also has an LL.M. in Human Rights and Democratization in Africa from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Oliver Schreiner School of Law at the University of The Witwatersrand.
---UPDATE: A Guide to Legal Research in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Mirela Rožajac-Zulčić
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Bosnia_Herzegovina1.htm
Mirela Rožajac-Zulčić graduated in comparative literature and library science from the Department of Comparative Literature and Library Science of Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). She is a postgraduate student of Gender Studies at the Center for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies at the University of Sarajevo. Since November 2003, she has worked as an Expert Counselor in the Library of Law Faculty in Sarajevo. As Expert Counselor in the Library, she edited—in co-authorship—the Bibliography of Law faculty of University in Sarajevo: monograph publications (1946-2003). In 2004, she was the scholarship holder of Stiftung für internationale rechtliche Zusammenarbeit, which gave her the opportunity to attend lectures of legal German language at the Goethe Institute in Bonn. In 2006, the International Association of Law Libraries awarded her a professional development bursary to attend the 25th Annual Course in International Law Librarianship, which
was held in St. Petersburg.
--UPDATE: Russian Federation Legal Resources in English:
Selection of Research Material by Lucy Cox
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Russia1.htm
Lucy Cox is Reference and Foreign/International Law Librarian at the Rutgers University Law School Library at Camden. Her responsibilities include maintaining the Ginsburgs Collection of Soviet and Post-Soviet Law. She holds an M.L.S. degree from Drexel University and a Ph.D. in Russian from the University of Pennsylvania. She has translated legal material from Russian to English. Ms. Cox has given presentations on sources of Soviet and post-Soviet law at conventions of the American Library Association, the American Association for Slavic Studies, and the Mid-Atlantic Slavic Association.
--UPDATE: A Guide to Legal Research in Russia by Arina Popova and Lev S. Soloviev
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Russia_Legal_Research1.htm
Arina V. Popova earned her Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) at the New York University School of Law (2006). She received her law degree (J.D.) in 2005 from St. Petersburg State University School of Law, Russia. Lev S. Soloviev earned his Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) at the New York University School of Law (2008). He holds a J.D. (2003) from St. Petersburg State University School of Law, Russia.
More articles on international, comparative, and foreign law research at: http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html
Mirela Roznovschi
Editor
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