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Foreign & Int'l: New Publication by YLS Alumnus on International Law

em383 — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:08:49 +0000

Hot off the press is Necessity and National Emergency Clauses: Sovereignty in Modern Treaty Interpretation authored by Diane Desierto, LLM 2009 and JSD 2011. The publication, based on the author's JSD dissertation, examines how states have invoked the necessity defense and national emergency clauses in relation to treaty compliance.

From the abstract of her book:

Necessity and National Emergency Clauses is the first to trace the doctrine’s genealogy from medieval Christian and Islamic religious history to post-Westphalian practices, the International Law Commission’s codifications, and modern treaty formulations. Recognizing the doctrine’s thematic linkage with the State’s sovereign right to delimit international obligation, the volume proposes analytical criteria to assess the lawfulness and legitimacy of interpretations of necessity and national emergency clauses within specialized treaty regimes.

Rare Books: New on the shelves: Brazil's first constitution

Mike Widener — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:54:00 +0000

We have just acquired an early printing of Brazil's first constitution, Constituição politica do imperio do Brazil (Lisboa: Na impressão de João Nunes Esteves, 1826). Measuring only 10 cm. tall, it still retains its original printed wrappers; a remarkable survival. From the dealer's description (quoted by permission):

"First edition to appear in Portugal? There are several editions with the same imprint; priority has not been established. Originally published Rio de Janeiro, 1824, this constitution was written in large part by the Emperor D. Pedro I. It served, with some modifications, until the end of the Brazilian Empire in 1889. Similar to the Portuguese Carta Constitucional, the second Portuguese constitution, written and promulagated in Rio de Janeiro in 1826 by D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, in his capacity as D. Pedro IV, King of Portugal, it is no accident that the Brazilian constitution also appeared in Lisbon that year. Though liberal in its day, it was more conservative than the constitution the Brazilians would have had if D. Pedro had not intervened and their constitutional convention had had its way." -- Richard C. Ramer Old & Rare Books (Jan. 2012).

MIKE WIDENER
Rare Book Librarian

Foreign & Int'l: Putin Calls for Stricter Migrant Registration Rules

bo5 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:20:24 +0000

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

MOSCOW, January 23

Russia should have stricter registration rules for internal migrants and introduce criminal responsibility for violation of migration laws, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in an article on modern problems of multiethnic Russia for the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily. The article is the presidential candidate’s second publication as part of his election program.

Noting the internal migration in Russia has been actively underway in recent years, the premier said migrants should respect the customs and traditions of regions they come to live in, and that any aggressive or disrespectful behavior should be properly addressed by authorities.

He said “registration regulations, as well as sanctions for their violations should be toughened” but that the constitutional rights of citizens to choose the place to live inside the country should not be infringed.

The premier proposed making exams in Russian, history and the basics of Russian law mandatory for immigrants from 2013.

That, he said, will help them to adapt in society.

Russian parliamentary speaker Sergei Naryshkin said legislation would probably be passed to put Putin’s proposals into force.

“We will definitely consider the proposals given by the premier in his article, and will decide which of them need to be introduced as laws,” Naryshkin said.

Putin served two terms as Russia’s president between 2000 and 2008, but was barred from standing for a third consecutive term by the constitution. He became prime minister after his handpicked successor, Dmitry Medvedev, became president.

Foreign & Int'l: Russia Gains WTO Membership

bo5 — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:04:51 +0000

December,19, 2011

The World Trade Organization officially welcomed Russia as a member Friday, bringing the country's 18-year accession process to an end. Russia now has 220 days to ratify official WTO documents, and will become a full-fledged member 30 days after ratification. Russia's final hurdle to membership was removed last month when it resolved its dispute with Georgia (which was blocking Russia's entry into the organization) over monitoring trade on the borders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Another major barrier that had long hampered Russia's accession to the WTO was intellectual property violations, with pirated software and DVDs being available in kiosks and marketplaces across the country and via the Internet. With its accession to the WTO, Russia must combat web sites with domestically located servers that distribute content illegally and "investigate and prosecute companies that illegally distribute objects of copyright or related rights," the WTO said on its web site last month. Medvedev promised cooperation on intellectual property and other trade issues, and lauded the country's accession to the WTO "[as] a result of long, difficult negotiations" that will be beneficial for both Russia and other member states. Among other things, Russia's entry into the WTO opens up the country's economy of almost $2 trillion to foreign companies and is widely expected to boost the country's economic growth and attract investment.

Rare Books: Our Montebuono manuscript is published!

Mike Widener — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:25:00 +0000

Our 15th-century manuscript of the statutes of Montebuono, Italy, is now available in a full-color facsimile edition, along with a full transcription and three scholarly studies. Lo Statuto di Montebuono in Sabina del 1437 (Rome: Viella Libreria Editrice, 2011) is available for purchase from the publisher's website. It includes an introductory essay by Mario Ascheri, the leading scholar of Italian statuti, as well as a history of medieval Montebuono by Tersilio Leggio, and a detailed study of the Montebuono statutes by legal historian Sandro Notari. In addition, Alda Spotti of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma provided a transcript of the Latin manuscript.

I was honored to speak at a symposium marking the publication of the volume on November 23 at the Biblioteca del Senato della Repubblica in Rome. Other speakers included Mario Ascheri (Università di Roma 3), Sandro Notari, Sandro Bulgarelli (director, Biblioteca del Senato della Repubblica), Maria Teresa Caciorgna (Università di Roma 3), the Hon. Dario Santori (mayor, Comune di Montebuono), and Yale's own Professor Anders Winroth. Following is an excerpt from my talk:

My library's involvement with the Statuto di Montebuono began in 1946. In that year Samuel Thorne was appointed as the head librarian of the Yale Law Library. Thorne was not a librarian by training. He was a legal historian, one of the outstanding historians of medieval English law in the 20th century. However, Thorne had a librarian's instincts. With the help of a large endowment, he began a ten-year campaign of buying rare books and manuscripts. He put the Yale Law Library into the first rank of historical law collections in the United States.

In his first annual report, for 1946, Thorne wrote: "The outstanding acquisition of the year was the notable collection of Italian statuta, numbering almost nine hundred volumes, purchased from a learned Italian lawyer who had brought it, over a period of fifty years, to its present completeness. It contained fifty-two manuscripts of the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, nine incunabula, and many sixteenth-century editions."

With this single purchase, the Yale Law Library acquired what is still the largest collection of Italian statuti in the Americas. Among these nine hundred volumes was the 15th century manuscript of the Statuto di Montebuono.

In 2007, Professor Anders Winroth brought his medieval legal history seminar into our Rare Book Collection. One of his doctoral students, Ms. Oriana Bleecher, chose the Statuto di Montebuono for her research project.

Ms. Bleecher was perhaps the key catalyst in the project that led to the book we are celebrating today. She asked me if the Law Library could acquire a book that the Fondazione Gabriele Berionne had just published, Montebuono e il suo territorio. The Fondazione refused to sell us the book. Instead, Renata Ferraro insisted on donating this beautiful book to my library, on behalf of the Fondazione. As a token of gratitude, I sent Sig.ra Ferraro a copy of Ms. Bleecher's seminar paper.

Soon after, Sig.ra Ferraro sent me a full-page article from the newspaper, Montebuono Spazio Comune, about our Montebuono manuscript and Ms. Bleecher's research. In 2008, my library featured the Statuto di Montebuono in the inaugural exhibit in our new exhibit gallery. The title of the exhibit was "The Flowering of Civil Law: Early Italian City Statutes in the Yale Law Library."

At Sig.ra Ferraro's request, we digitized the Statuto di Montebuono, and then I put her in touch with Mario Ascheri, the world's leading scholar of early Italian statutes. The result of their collaboration, Lo Statuto di Montebuono in Sabina del 1437 (Rome: Viella Libreria Editrice, 2011) is before us today. The Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, and I are deeply, deeply honored to have played a part in making this publication a reality.

I learned that my Italian colleagues consider the Montebuono statutes to be particularly significant: medieval municipal statutes from the Sabina region are generally rare, and especially such sophisticated statutes from a small rural community.

MIKE WIDENER
Rare Book Librarian

Biblioteca del Senato della Repubblica, Rome, 23 Nov. 2011. L-R: Prof. Maria Teresa Caciorgna (Università di Roma 3), Sandro Notari, Prof. Mario Ascheri (Università di Roma 3), Prof. Anders Winroth (Yale University), Mike Widener.

Foreign & Int'l: Election Observation and International Legal Standards

mv284 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:31:06 +0000

Last week's Russian Duma elections were roundly criticized by domestic and international election observers. The elections, in which United Russia received almost 50% of the vote amid accusations of ballot stuffing and fraud - and prompting massive demontrations over the weekend -- have been described by election observers as "slanted" and lacking independence. Besides shining a light on unsavory electoral practices, international election observers generate a rich collection of both secondary sources on foreign election law and analyses of international standards for conducting democratic elections.

Who Are the Observers?

Where permitted, domestic political parties and regional and non-governmental organizations supply the bulk of election observers. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) issued the report on the recent Russian elections referenced above. To compare, the OSCE found "recurring deficiencies in the electoral framework" of the 2010 US mid-term elections, but concluded that the Dutch had it all figured out in their 2010 early Parliamentary elections. Wij houden van Oranje! Other organizations involved in the observation of elections include the African Union, Carter Center, Commonwealth Secretariat, Council of Europe, European Union, and the Organization of American States.

Sources of Foreign Election Law

The reports issued by organizations like the OSCE can contain a valuable mix of foreign election law and references to international legal standards for the conduct of democratic elections. In the OSCE reports mentioned above you'll find a survey of the monitored nation's election laws and a comprehensive description of election procedures. The state's laws and processes are also evaluated in light of the state's obligations and international standards.

What International Standards?

Election monitors often refer to international standards when evaluating the quality of a state's electoral processes. The Carter Center has created a database of sources of international standards collected from treaties, judicial decisions, decisions and recommendations of treaty supervisory committees, and handbooks and manuals. Selective collections of standards can also be found in the EU's Compendium of International Standards for Elections and from the OSCE.

Foreign & Int'l: Human Rights Day 2011

em383 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:55:59 +0000

This coming Saturday will be Human Rights Day 2011. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the milestone document which spells out the fundamental human rights to be universally protected, was adopted 63 years ago on December 10th, 1948, by the United Nations General Assembly. Since then it has been translated into some 380 languages and dialects. Under the theme "Celebrate Human Rights", Human Rights Day events at the UN this year include a special social media campaign built around the important document in the history of human rights.

Currently on display in the Foreign and International Law Collection on L1 of the Law Library are selective works by our faculty, alumni and affiliates on a variety of topics relating to global human rights issues. Here is a sampling of their works:

McDougal, Lasswell and Chen, Human Rights and World Public Order: the Basic Policies of an International Law of Human Dignity

Eichensehr and Reisman, Stopping Wars and Making Peace: Studies in International Intervention

Koh and Slye, Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights

Koh and Hathaway, Foundations of International Law and Politics

Shapiro and Brilmayor, Global Justice

Hess and Post, Human Rights in Political Transitions: Gettysburg to Bosnia

Resnik and Benhabib, Migrations and Mobilities: Citizenship, Borders, and Gender

Popkin and Silk, Civil patrols and their legacy : overcoming militarization and polarization in the Guatemalan countryside

Wildhaber, European Court of Human Rights, 1998-2006 : history, achievements, reform

Abrams, Kampuchea, after the worst : a report on current violations of human rights

Guinier, Lift every voice : turning a civil rights setback into a new vision of social justice

Danner, Stripping bare the body : politics, violence, war

Kiernan, Blood and soil

Shattuck, Freedom on Fire

Schell, Mandate of heaven : a new generation of entrepreneurs, dissidents, bohemians, and technocrats lays claim to China's future

Foreign & Int'l: LexisNexis names us one of the top 25 Foreign & International Law Blogs

je47 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:06:48 +0000

We are pleased to announce that LexisNexis has named this blog as one of the top 25 Foreign and International Law Blogs of 2011.

The 25 blogs span a great number of topics and areas, and we are proud to be part of this list.

Thanks to everyone who supports the site.

Foreign & Int'l: Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law

bo5 — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:01:42 +0000

This research handbook affords an excellent introduction to the history of international law and an understanding of its theory from a historical perspective. It is one of the handbooks in Edward Elgar’s series on Research Handbooks in International Law. The Yale Law Library comprehensively collects the titles in this series which bear on international human rights, international environmental law, international financial regulation, and international criminal law among other topics.

The work covers the period from the origins of international law until now. The editor intends the work “as a useful starting point for identifying and examining the relevant issues of theory and history,” recognizing the multiplicity of legal theories, the myriad detail of international legal history, and the richness of approaches and methods. The work is divided into three parts, 1) The Essence and Developments of International Legal Theory, focusing on major theoretical developments, 2) Thematic Aspects of International Legal Theory, including international human rights, international criminal law, international law and EU law, and international law and international politics, and 3) the History of International Law, covering from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.

The editor, Alexander Orakhelashvili, Lecturer at the University of Birmingham http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/law/staff/profile.aspx?ReferenceId=3817 , has also authored four of the volume’s seventeen articles. Philip Allott, Professor Emeritus of Trinity College, the University of Cambridge, http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php?pageid=1057 has written the foreward, and one of the articles is intriguingly entitled “ ‘The holiness of the heart’s affection’: Philip Allot’s Theory of Social Idealism.” The work was inspired by the editor having participated in Professor Allott and James Crawford’s LLM course “the History and Theory of International Law” during the 2000/2001 academic year.

Most of the other contributors have English or Continental academic affiliations. The work ends with an index.

Dan Wade

Foreign & Int'l: Secretary Clinton to Visit Myanmar (Burma)

lak49 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:22:03 +0000

The New York Times has reported that The National League for Democracy, headed by Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi, is going to return to the political system in Myanmar after an absence of more than two decades. Information on Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy can be found in Justin Wintle’s biography, Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Prisoner of Conscience. The announcement coincides with the news that Secretary Clinton would be visiting Myanmar, the first visit by a Secretary of State in over 50 years.

There are several books in the Foreign and International Law collection that deal with the political and transnational changes that have arisen in Myanmar in the last few years, including Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability by John G. Dale and a collection of essays entitled Myanmar/Burma: Inside Challenges, Outside Interests, including pieces that address the role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which Myanmar will chair in 2014. Both catalog records contain links to the Google Books preview that provides access to the table of contents and images.

The essay collection's title "Myanmar/Burma" reveals an interesting debate as to which name should be used. The New York Times article previously mentioned clearly references “Myanmar” but President Obama is quoted using “Burma,” the colloquial word for Myanmar which has been used since British colonial rule of the country. Other news sources have similar disparity. BBC News refers to the country as Burma “because most of its audience is familiar with that name rather than Myanmar” but many speakers/writers choose Burma for political purposes: they do not accept the legitimacy of the Military Junta, which changed the name of the country to Myanmar in 1989.

The name choice is relevant to scholars, as many items will be described using one term or the other. A search for Myanmar as a keyword might yield far fewer titles or articles than are actually available. The Library of Congress classification system, for example, still refers to the country as Burma, so use that term when searching subject headings.

Foreign & Int'l: Dispute Over Right-Hand Drive Cars

bo5 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:26:42 +0000

Poland will face legal action at the European Court of Justice for refusing to register right-hand drive vehicles, a stance that has brought it into conflict with the European Commission.

Polish law requires that the steering wheel is placed on the left-hand side of the vehicle. This means that in practice right-hand drive cars, both new and used, cannot be registered in Poland. According to the European Commission, these restrictions constitute a disproportionate barrier to the importation of such vehicles from other EU member states, for example by citizens returning to Poland after having worked in Britain. In September last year the Commission requested the Polish authorities to put an end to these restrictions, but they are still in place.

In the Commission’s view, if a motor vehicle meets EU requirements, it can be driven safely in all member states irrespective of whether it is left- or right-hand drive. Therefore, the Commission believes that a total ban on the registration of right-hand drive vehicles is disproportionate to the legitimate public policy objective of ensuring road safety.

As far as new cars are concerned, the Commission believes that the obstacles to the registration of right-hand vehicles are contrary to Directive 70/311/EEC on type-approval of steering equipment and framework Directive 2007/46/EC on EC type-approval of motor vehicles. Regarding used cars, the Commission insists that Poland is breaching EU rules on the free movement of goods (Article 34 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union).

Before taking Poland to the European Court of Justice, the European Commission exchanged correspondence with the Polish government concerning the issue. The Commission refused to accept the Polish government’s argument that the ban was for safety reasons. The Commission called on Poland to change the regulations, but to no avail. If the European Court of Justice upholds the Commission’s position, Poland will have to either lift the ban or face a multimillion-euro fine.

Poland is one of 26 EU countries with street traffic on the right, but the only one that prohibits the registration of right-hand drive vehicles.

Foreign & Int'l: Finding English Cases

ct286 — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 21:34:42 +0000

The Yale Law School Library features a variety of online resources for research on English cases. Online resources can be accessed through the Yale Law School Library’s online research guides page on finding English cases, as well as the legal databases page.

In general, English case reporting can be divided into two main periods: prior to 1865 and after 1865. The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting (ICLR) for England & Wales has compiled most of the pre-1866 cases into the English Reports. Post-1865 cases are contained in the ICLR's own Law Reports. However, there are various other reporters throughout both time periods.

For a listing of the various case reporters and where to find them both in print and online, please visit our Finding English Cases Timeline. In addition, you may wish to consult the The Digest, which provides access to cases by name and subject.

Rare Books: Track our rare book acquisitions via RSS feed

Mike Widener — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:20:00 +0000

The Yale Law Library's online catalog, MORRIS, now provides an easy, automated way to learn about our recent rare book collections. You can subscribe to an RSS feed, "New Additions to Yale Law Library's Rare Book Collection," by adding this link, http://morris.law.yale.edu/feeds/rarebooks.xml, to your favorite RSS feed reader, such as Google Reader or Live Bookmarks. A list of all the available RSS feeds from MORRIS can be found here.

The feed reports the most recently cataloged rare book acquisitions, such as Clarence Darrow's The Skeleton in the Closet (Riverside, Conn.: F.C. Bursch, 1914). We purchased this little booklet from Meyer Boswell Books, who described it as "The first separate issuance of the first of Darrow's 'two major attempts at literature', long to underpin his philosophical view of life as 'a never-ending school [teaching us] to turn from [its] ... dire defeats to the mastery of ourselves'."

Thanks to Mary Jane Kelsey, our Associate Librarian for Technical Services, for making this possible.

MIKE WIDENER
Rare Book Librarian

Rare Books: New book on a Yale Law Library manuscript: "A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes"

Mike Widener — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:57:00 +0000

The Law Library is always delighted when research on materials in our collection is published. An entire monograph on a single one of our manuscripts is a rare privilege and honor.

Such an honor has been bestowed on us by Rosemarie McGerr. Her latest book, A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes: The Yale Law School New Statutes of England (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), is an in-depth study of one our most important medieval manuscripts, the Nova Statuta Angliae (ca. 1450s-1470s). In the course of her study, McGerr rejects the previous description of the manuscript as a wedding gift from King Henry VI of England to his consort Margaret of Anjou. Instead, she argues that it was commissioned by Queen Margaret for their son, Edward the Prince of Wales. As described by the publisher:

This seminal study addresses one of the most beautifully decorated 15th-century copies of the New Statutes of England, uncovering how the manuscript’s unique interweaving of legal, religious, and literary discourses frames the reader’s perception of the work. Taking internal and external evidence into account, Rosemarie McGerr suggests that the manuscript was made for Prince Edward of Lancaster, transforming a legal reference work into a book of instruction in kingship, as well as a means of celebrating the Lancastrians’ rightful claim to the English throne during the Wars of the Roses. A Lancastrian Mirror for Princes also explores the role played by the manuscript as a commentary on royal justice and grace for its later owners and offers modern readers a fascinating example of the long-lasting influence of medieval manuscripts on subsequent readers.

Rosemarie McGerr is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Medieval Studies Institute at Indiana University.

More information on the book is available from the Indiana University Press website.

MIKE WIDENER
Rare Book Librarian

Rare Books: "Justice as a Sign of the Law" exhibit goes online

Mike Widener — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:46:00 +0000

Our current exhibit, "The Remarkable Run of a Political Icon: Justice as a Sign of the Law", is now available online. Up to now, you've been able to view the Rare Book Collection's exhibits online via this blog. While the blog has been a great way to provide access to our exhibits, it has a problem as well: since the exhibits are posted to the blog in installments, the viewer sees them in reverse order.

The new stand-alone exhibit allows the viewer to see the exhibit in its original intended order. In addition, the "Contents" links on the left side of the screen enables the viewer to skip around the exhibit.

A big thank-you to Jason Eiseman, our Librarian for Emerging Technologies, who built the new stand-alone exhibit site.

In the next several weeks, we will add online versions of all the exhibits that have appeared on the Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog. I will continue to post our future exhibits to the Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog, but now the same exhibits will also be available on their own websites, where the viewer can see them as they were intended to be seen.

For those of you, my readers, who can visit our exhibits physically, there's nothing like the real thing. I'm a huge fan of digital access, but it remains virtually impossible to communicate the size, scale, and dimensionality of the objects on display. Please come visit!

MIKE WIDENER
Rare Book Librarian

Rare Books: New Flickr gallery: Bookplates

Mike Widener — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:52:00 +0000

The latest addition to the Rare Book Collection's Flickr galleries is a set dedicated to bookplates. The Bookplates set is a project of Drew Adan, Library Services Assistant in our Collections & Access department. He will be adding more images of bookplates in the coming weeks and months.

The set includes bookplates of the famous, such as the bookplate of Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780), author of Commentaries of the Laws of England, the most influential book in the history of Anglo-American common law. His bookplate is in a copy of John Locke's Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (4th ed.; London 1700), which we recently acquired for our Blackstone Collection:

We will also seek help in identifying bookplates, such as this colorful one found in the Summa aurea of Hostiensis (Lyon 1556):

MIKE WIDENER
Rare Book Librarian

Rare Books: New on the shelves: Pocket edition of the Institutes

Mike Widener — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:03:00 +0000

One of my favorite recent acquisitions is a tiny pocket edition of Justinian's Institutes, printed in 1510 by Jean Petit. It measures only 3.375 inches tall (9.5 centimetres). Our copy is bound in gilt tooled vellum over pasteboards, with much of the gold gilt rubbed off. The flyleaf bears an early owner's inscription: "Ad usum Innocensi de Rosso", and there are handwritten marginal notes throughout.

The Institutes is perhaps the most long-lived student textbook in history, used by students of Roman law for well over a millenium. It was originally promulgated as the authorized textbook of Roman law by the emperor Justinian in 533 A.D., and was still being used by law students in the 18th century.

To fit the Institutes in a pocket format, the publisher of the 1510 edition stripped away the medieval gloss that usually surrounded Justinian's text. The full title, Institutio[n]es imperiales : sine [qui]bus legum humanarum sacrorum[que] canonum amator mancus est, could be roughly translated as "The Imperial Institutes, a book no law student should be without."

At the foot of the title page are three maxims. "Cum bonis ambula" ("Keep company with good people") is from Cato. "Mors peccatorum pessima" ("The death of sinners is hard") is from Psalms 34:21. "Sic utere tuo ut alieno non egeas" means something along the lines of "Do not steal." These maxims also appeared on the title pages of other books printed in Paris in the early 16th century. Were they intended for the student's moral edification, or perhaps to discourage book thieves? [Thanks to Susan Karpuk, the Law Library's head cataloger, for help with the Latin translations.]

This is a very rare little book. The only other copy I could locate is at the Austrian National Library.

It is also, possibly, the earliest pocket edition of the Institutes. If someone can cite an earlier example, please let me know.

MIKE WIDENER
Rare Book Librarian

Rare Books: Justice as a Sign of the Law: Further Reading

Mike Widener — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:10:00 +0000

Judith Resnik & Dennis Curtis, Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011). "By mapping the remarkable run of the icon of Justice, a woman with scales and sword, and by tracing the development of public spaces dedicated to justice—courthouses—the authors explore the evolution of adjudication into its modern form as well as the intimate relationship between the courts and democracy." In addition, the Representing Justice page, in the Lillian Goldman Law Library's Document Collection Center, brings together image collections, articles, and videos relating to the book.
Fondo Antico - Immagini della Giustizia, a website prepared by the library of the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, is a well organized and thorough examination of how the image of Justice is employed in early printed books. It includes a lengthy bibliography.
The Digital Collections page of the Rechtshistorie website includes annotated lists of useful links under the headings "Databases for legal iconography" and "Thematic image collections".
Rechtshistorie's editor, Otto Vervaart, also writes a companion blog, Rechtsgeschiedenis. He has written several thoughtful and informative posts on the topic of legal iconography, dealing with their importance for legal history and the challenges in locating online resources. See, for example, "The face of justice" (Dec. 19, 2010) and click the Legal iconography tag to see the others.
Justitia: Iconography of Justice is a Flickr gallery that as of September 2011 contained 133 images of Justice taken from volumes in the Rare Book Collection, Lillian Goldman Law Library. See also the related gallery, Justitia - headpieces. Headpieces are ornaments used as decoration at the head of a chapter or division of a book.

"The Remarkable Run of a Political Icon: Justice as a Sign of the Law" is curated by Judith Resnik, Dennis Curtis, Allison Tait, and Mike Widener, and is on display Sept. 19-Dec. 16, 2011, in the Rare Book Exhibition Gallery, Level L2, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School.

Rare Books: Justice as a Sign of the Law: Acknowledgments

Mike Widener — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:48:00 +0000

Thanks to the following individuals and institutions for their assistance in preparing this exhibit:

Kathryn James
Curator for Early Modern Books and Manuscripts,
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Nicholas Salazar
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Yale University

Shana Jackson
Lillian Goldman Law Library

Drew Adan
Lillian Goldman Law Library

Image:Frontispiece from Maximae juris celebriores, deductae ex jure canonico, civili, glossa (Tyrnaviae: Typis Academicis, S. Jesu, 1742). Lillian Goldman Law Library.

Rare Books: Justice as a Sign of the Law: Conclusion

Mike Widener — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:18:00 +0000

This glimpse at the imagery of Justice makes plain the richness of its history and signification. Didactic emblems addressed fears of corruption, of irrational authority, and an absence of even-handedness. Blindfolds, double-headed Justices, and handless judges captured some of these stresses.

Yet recall that Justice iconography was once far more varied. Within a century after Ripa, his seven Justices had been distilled into one stock figure identified by scales and sword. And Ripa's mention of a blindfold as a marker of the obligation that Justice not be "tempted away from using reason" came to be an expected accoutrement.

The images in this exhibit are a testament to the normative enterprise that built public courts of law and sought to elaborate the import and obligations of law. The movement away from public adjudication is a problem for democracies because adjudication has important contributions to make to democracy. Adjudication is itself a democratic process, which reconfigures power as it obliges disputants and judges to treat each other as equals. The scales, the attribute of Justice with the longest history (dating back to Babylonia and Egypt), evoke the evenhandedness to which judges aspire today.

Our excursion into Justice iconography aims to appreciate but not to romanticize the roots of the didactic practices surrounding adjudication. While old images remain legible, courts in today's democracies are new inventions -- benefits of political and social movements insistent on equality, dignity, and fairness for all. But these aspirations have yet to be realized, just as a visual vocabulary to match those ideas remains under-developed. Whether political will exists to support both the infrastructure of courts and access for all those now eligible to use courts is in question, and hence, the ability of courts to provide active sites of public exchange before independent judges cannot be taken for granted.

Image: Decorative headpiece from Johann Stephan Pütter, Patriotische Abbildung des heutigen Zustandes beyler höchsten Reichsgerichte (Frankfurt & Leipzig, 1756). Lillian Goldman Law Library (German Law Collection of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York).

Rare Books: Justice as a Sign of the Law: Justice and Peace

Mike Widener — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:03:00 +0000

Dumont, Jean. Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens (8 vols.; Amsterdam: P. Brunel [etc.], 1726-31), vol 1. Lillian Goldman Law Library.

Jean Dumont's Corps universel diplomatique du droit des gens (The Universal Diplomacy of the Laws of Men) is a compilation of European treaties beginning in the time of Charlemagne in the tenth century. The engraved frontispiece, entitled "Traitez de Paix" (Peace Treaties), is by Bernard Picart (1673-1733), who was considered a "magnificent engraver." In the background, the Virtues Justice and Peace (both clear-eyed half-naked women) embrace. They are seated on a pedestal and surrounded by other Virtues, all labeled and including Fortitude, Wisdom, Natural Law, and Truth.

The French text below the engraving explains that the two male figures at the center are kings "swearing an alliance" that is confirmed through a handshake above a chalice-shaped urn in which a fire burns. Each of the men bears a palm, symbolizing peace, and ministers and counselors surround each. At the bottom, War is enchaining Ambition, Discord, Fraud, and Impiety. At the top of the frame, the eye of Providence looks down from thundering clouds from which harpies emerge.

The picture of two persons clasping hands over a fire occurs often in diplomatic imagery of this era and signifies "bona fides" (good faith) or "pacta sunt servanda" (promises must be kept). The depiction's iconic weight resulted in variations being used in seventeenth-century wedding poems, with husband and wife clasping hands to symbolize their union.

A simplified version of the Picart image made its way into the logo of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, established in 1907 at the Hague. A facsimile of the logo used by the Court until 2007 shows the artistic borrowing.

Rare Books: Justice as a Sign of the Law: Justice and Punishment

Mike Widener — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:57:00 +0000

A clear-sighted Justice is at the center of the frontispiece to a 1788 German edition of Cesare Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishment, first published in 1764. Beccaria was an eighteenth-century Italian jurist, philosopher, and politician. His well-known treatise, condemning torture and the death penalty, remains a foundation for theories of punishment. Beccaria's premises of reason, utility, and deterrence resulted in his rejection of executions.

Depicted is a Justice turning her eyes away, with scales, entangled with tools used in farming and industry, dangling by her side. She refuses the offering of a severed head by an executioner. Her posture enacts the position adopted today by those seeking to abolish the death penalty. The illustration was based on a sketch drawn by Beccaria himself.

Beccaria, Cesare. Von Verbrechen und Strafen (Breslau: Johann Friedrich Korn, 1788). Lillian Goldman Law Library.

Rare Books: Justice as a Sign of the Law: The Icon in the Courtroom

Mike Widener — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:49:00 +0000

The engraved title page of Bernard van Zutphen's Practycke der nederlansche rechten van de daghelijcksche soo civile als criminele (Dutch Law and Practice in Civil and Criminal Matters) depicts a crowded and lively courtroom scene. At the center, the presiding jurist is seated behind a table and beneath a small statue of Justice, who holds scales and a sword; her thin blindfold is dimly visible. The densely populated courtroom, with seats filled by men, includes some spectators focusing on the court proceedings and others chatting -- with dogs at their feet.

With minor variations, this same image can be found in several other volumes of that era, all illustrating how seventeenth-century town halls served as public gathering places, and court proceedings were ordinary events.

Zutphen, Bernhard van. Practycke der nederlansche rechten van de daghelijcksche soo civile als criminele questien (Leeuwarden: G. Sijbes, 1655). Lillian Goldman Law Library.

Rare Books: Justice as a Sign of the Law: Justice Without Her Blindfold

Mike Widener — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:42:00 +0000

By the sixteenth century, the blindfold had come to be seen as a potentially positive constraint on earthly Justice, seen to be at risk of corruption or of misplaced passion. But Justices without blindfolds remained commonplace, as seen in the 1669 edition of the Republic of Genoa's criminal statutes. The engraving is by Giuseppe Maria Testana (d. 1679), a printmaker and engraver whose works included allegorical images and portraits of popes, cardinals, and other public figures.

Genoa (Republic). Criminalium iurium serenissimae reipublicae Genuensis, libri duo (Genoa: Giovanni Battista Tiboldi, 1669). Lillian Goldman Law Library.

Rare Books: Justice as a Sign of the Law: Damhoudere's Portrait of Worldly Justice

Mike Widener — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:29:00 +0000

A rare and intriguing portrayal of a two-faced Justice, titled "A Portrait of Worldly Justice," comes from a popular sixteenth-century guide to civil procedure by the Flemish jurist Joost de Damhoudere. One face is sighted and the other has blindfolded eyes. The face of the sighted Justice looks toward her large sword, held upright in her right hand, while the face of the blindfolded Justice turns toward tipped scales in her left hand.

The sighted face has the well-to-do on its side, while the blindfolded face is turned toward the side with more needy-looking individuals, children included. Those on the sighted side of Justice personify largely negative qualities, such as the two labeled Argentum (Money) and Favor (Favor). Blindfolded Justice faces figures labeled Despectus (Contempt), Miseria (Misery), and Paupertas (Poverty). The legend below suggests the children (one of whom is disabled) are Innocentia (Innocence) and Veritas (Truth).

This imagery is accompanied by more than a dozen explanatory pages, beginning with a quote from Cicero: "Justice is the virtue, by which is granted to each what is his own." Through this mélange of images and text, Damhoudere detailed his views on both divine and human justice. He explained that many turn to Justice, who is "repeatedly blind and deaf" to just causes." Justice is "two-faced" -- acting in a manner that appears even-handed but dissembling. Where she is "bound by a blindfold," her eyes are shut to "clemency." But the text has some ambiguity, for Damhoudere also commented that a "two-faced" Justice signified that she must "attend to each of the parties equally."

Damhoudere, Joost de. Practique iudiciaire et causes civiles (Antwerp: Iean Bellere, 1572). Lillian Goldman Law Library.

Damhoudere, Joost de. Practycke in civile sacken (Rotterdam: Pieter van Waesberghe, 1660). Lillian Goldman Law Library.

Reference: The Two Faces of American Freedom

ct286 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:17:00 +0000

There is a new video available at the law library, a discussion with Aziz Rana '06 on his new book, " The Two Faces of American Freedom," with commentary by Professor Bruce Ackerman. The video is available here, and the book is available at the Law Library.

"The Two Faces of American Freedom" boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of race relations, immigration, and presidentialism in the context of shifting notions of empire and citizenship. Today, while the U.S. enjoys tremendous military and economic power, citizens are increasingly insulated from everyday decision-making. This was not always the case. Aziz Rana argues that America began as a settler society grounded in an ideal of freedom as the exercise of continuous self-rule-one that joined direct political participation with economic independence. However, this vision of freedom was politically bound to the subordination of marginalized groups, especially slaves, Native Americans, and women. These practices of liberty and exclusion were not separate currents, but rather two sides of the same coin.However, at crucial moments, social movements sought to imagine freedom without either subordination or empire. By the mid-twentieth century, these efforts failed, resulting in the rise of hierarchical state and corporate institutions. This new framework presented national and economic security as societyrsquo;s guiding commitments and nurtured a continual extension of Americarsquo;s global reach. Rana envisions a democratic society that revives settler ideals, but combines them with meaningful inclusion for those currently at the margins of American life.

Reference: US Code adds a new Title!!!

John Nann — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:41:00 +0000

Coming soon: Title 51 Space Law! More here.

Reference: Yale Finding Aids now in Connecticut Archives Online

ct286 — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:54:00 +0000

Finding aids from Yale's special collections repositories are now discoverable through Connecticut Archives Online (CAO, ). CAO is a union index of finding aids from repositories across Connecticut, developed and hosted by Western Connecticut State University. Users can cross search finding aids from Western Connecticut, UConn, Yale and other repositories. After discovering a finding aid in CAO, the user will be redirected back to the Yale Finding Aid Database to view the actual finding aid.

Reference: Obama Signs Executive Order on Controlled Unclassified Information

ct286 — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:27:00 +0000

On November 4th, President Obama signed an executive order requiring agencies to use one term only -- “Controlled Unclassified Information,” (CUI) -- to mark documents that they believe should be protected, but not designated as “classified.” The order establishes a program for managing this information that emphasizes the openness and uniformity of Government-wide practice. Prior to the order, several federal agencies used their own system of approximately 120 different markings in order to categorize and protect information. These agency-specific policies led to unclear and sometimes unnecessarily restrictive dissemination policies, and created impediments to authorized information sharing.

The order can be viewed here.

Reference: Lexis Webcast: Adding Legal Experience to Your Resume

ct286 — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:16:00 +0000

On Tuesday November 9th LexisNexis will host a webcast entitled Alternative and Pro Bono Career Exploration. In this webcast you will:

Learn about Pro Bono opportunities from Esther F. Lardent, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pro Bono Institute.
Learn more about the Pro Bono Institute here.
Hear from Edward Adams, the Editor and Publisher of the ABA Journal about various legal career paths.

Register now here - the first 1,000 students to register and attend the November 9th webcast will receive a free law student membership to the ABA valued at $25. You will also receive 200 LexisNexis Reward points for attending.

There is no cost for this short webcast, you only need a computer and an internet connection to attend.

Reference: Bloomberg Database Training

ct286 — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:33:00 +0000

On Tuesday, October 5th, a representative from Bloomberg will provide a basic overview of how to use the system, followed by advanced training on searching court dockets. Basic training will be from 2:30pm-3:00pm and repeat 3:00pm-3:30pm. Docket training will take place from 2:00-2:30 and repeat 3:30pm-4:00pm. To register for basic training, see here. To register for dockets training, see here. Bloomberg law is a real-time legal research system that integrates innovative search technology, comprehensive legal content, company and client information and proprietary news all in one place.

Reference: Judiciary Approves Pilot Project for Cameras in District Courts

ct286 — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:41:00 +0000

The Judicial Conference of the United States recently approved a three-year pilot project to evaluate the effect of cameras in federal district courtrooms, video recordings of proceedings and the public release of digital video recordings of some civil proceedings. For more information, see here.

Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 53 prohibits electronic media coverage of criminal proceedings in federal courts. However, the Judicial Conference allows each appellate court discretion to permit broadcasting of oral arguments. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals allow such coverage.

Reference: WestlawNext comes to Yale Law

ryan.harrington — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:57:00 +0000

Yale law students and faculty currently have a new option when they log into their Westlaw accounts: WestlawNext. The database provides most of the content you are familiar with, but the interface has changed dramatically in an effort to make searching easier. We will be offering many training sessions throughout the course of the semester. There are some glitches as the database has not yet been widely released, so you retain access to Westlaw's traditional platform. Of important note: you CANNOT currently print to the Westlaw printer from WestlawNext. To use the Westlaw printer, you must use the traditional platform.

Reference: President Obama Announces Nomination for new Public Printer

ct286 — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:23:00 +0000

Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate William J. Boarman as Public Printer of the United States. The announcement, as well as a description of Mr. Boarman's background, is available here. The Public Printer is the official head of the Government Printing Office (GPO), which is responsible for printing federal government documents including the Supreme Court's U.S. Reports, Congressional materials, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register and other documents from the Executive Office of the President.

Reference: LexisNexis Communities open

ct286 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:02:00 +0000

The NEW version of the open web LexisNexis Communities went live yesterday. Containing news, blogs, podcasts and videocasts and analysis of top cases, LexisNexis Communities allow students and professors to stay on top of emerging issues by connecting with practitioners and other legal professionals in certain practice areas. Practice areas include:
· Bankruptcy
· Copyright and Trademark
· Corporations and Securities
· Estates and Elder Law
· Environmental Law and Climate Change
· Insurance Law
· International and Foreign Law
· Patent Law
· Real Estate Law
· Tax Law
· Torts
· UCC and Commercial Law
· Workers’ Compensation

Reference: WestlawNext

John Nann — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:49:00 +0000

So, West is coming out with a new research system. It will be rolled out next week (February 1). When will we see it? Not sure yet. But, a few law librarians have seen it and are letting us know about it. First, our own Jason Eiseman (along with former YLS librarian Tom Boone. Greg Lambert, and Jason Wilson) discuss WestlawNext. Next, Betsy McKenzie gives a thoughtful analysis of WestlawNext and what it means for researching and what to do with those old skills.

We'll have more news about WestlawNext (and the new Lexis and Bloomberg) as we learn about them.

Reference: Obama Administration Launches Comprehensive Open Government Plan

ct286 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:48:00 +0000

Today, U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra launched the Administration’s comprehensive Open Government Plan, furthering the President’s commitment to increasing transparency and accountability in Washington and ensuring greater access to information. You can view the directive, which instructs the agencies to take specific actions to open their operations to the public here.

Reference: Keeping Current

John Nann — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:07:00 +0000

Below please find the text of an email that was sent to YLS students regarding current awareness tools.

Today, I thought that I would let you know about a few tools that can help you keep current. These tools can help you keep current with the law in particular fields or scholarship in particular fields, by particular authors, or that appear in particular journals.

There are several methods that you can use to stay current with new events in particular areas of law. I expect that you are already familiar with Lexis' and Westlaw's saved searches (if not, contact a reference librarian or the Lexis or Westlaw representative for instruction). Those tools allow you to receive new results from searches that you have constructed. There are, however, better tools.

Two publishers have specialized in a form of legal publishing called "looseleafs". Looseleafs pull together all primary source material on a legal topic as well as analysis and current awareness information (the name hearkens back to their print past). Today, these publishes still produce these research tools and they are still very useful and they produce excellent current awareness tools.

Commerce Clearinghouse is one of these publishers. CCH has pulled many of their looseleafs together into one online platform that you can access from the Law Library Databases page (under the name CCH Online Networks). After a short registration process you will have access to information on a wide variety of legal topics. You can also sign up to receive "tracker" newsletters from CCH (either in your email of via your rss reader) on over 70 legal topics. Just click on the "tracker News" link in the upper left.

Another looseleaf publisher, the Bureau of National Affairs also produces material on a large number of legal topics and produces newsletters on over 100 legal topics. You can see a list of the newsletters here: http://www.law.yale.edu/library/research/bna-email.asp. These newsletters will come to you by email. If you are interested in receiving any BNA newsletters, please send an email with your name, your Yale email address, and the name(s) of the newsletters that you would like to receive to john dot nann at yale dot edu. Please note that it will take several days for your BNA subscription to become active.

There are several tools that you can use to track legal scholarship. I expect that you know about the "New Acquisition" lists that the law library publishes, http://www.law.yale.edu/library/acquisitions.asp, but did you know that you can find out, on a weekly basis, what new books we've recieved on any topic that you choose? To do that, set up a preferred search and have new results sent to you. To set up a preferred search, conduct a search in MORRIS (a subject search is a good one) and, on the results screen, click on the "Save as preferred search" button. Log in and follow the prompts and from then on, you'll receive notice of any new books that we receive that match your search. By the way, for broader coverage, you can also do the same at worldcat.org.

There are a couple of good tools for keeping up with legal periodical articles. Washington and Lee Law Library's Law Journal Content tool allows you to set up an rss feed for new journal tables of contents (http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/index.aspx) (there is actually a lot more that you can do with the content, you can see their information page for more: http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/explanation.aspx).

The Current Index to Legal Periodicals is another contents tool. CILP is available to you by a variety of means. First, it exists as a database on Westlaw (database identifier is CILP) and the usual Westlaw saved searches work on it. Second, you can sign up to get the tables of contents of selected journals and/or information about articles classified under selected subjects. To set up a CILP search, go to http://lib.law.washington.edu/cilp/scilp.html and set up a profile. First, however, you will need YLS's code. You can get that in the Library databases link on the Inside site (https://inside.law.yale.edu/Research/305/default.aspx - this should work if you sign in). And third, you can go to CILP and read it in html, Word or PDF at: http://cilp.nellco.org/cilp/index.cfm.

Also, some journal publishers provide table of content or other current awareness tools for their stable of titles (see Sage Journals Online for example) and other, non-law, indexes allow you to save searches. If you are interested in any of these, stop by and see a reference librarian or contact one of us and set up a meeting (http://www.law.yale.edu/library/reference.asp).

Also, don't forget that we can help with your other research issues. You can stop by or, for more complex probnlems, contact us and set up a meeting.

Thank you!

John

--
John B. Nann
Associate Librarian for Reference and Instructional Services,
Bibliographer for EU and UK Law, and Lecturer in Legal Research
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208215
New Haven, CT 06520-8215
203.432.1259
john dot nann at yale dot edu

Reference: Yale ISP Celebrates Open Access Week

John Nann — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:54:00 +0000

Just received this press release from the YLS Information Society Project:

Yale ISP Celebrates Open Access Week with New Research

The Information Society Project at Yale Law School (Yale ISP) today launched three new reports on the state of access to knowledge in comparative national perspective. The new works feature research on challenges of intellectual property and innovation in three developing countries. The launch is timed to coincide with the first-ever international celebration of Open Access Week, October 19-23, 2009.

Open Access Week seeks to raise awareness of the importance of open access to research. In today's world, proper use of digital publication platforms and open copyright licenses can greatly facilitate the spread and impact of academic research. Consistent with these values, the research launched this week carries Creative Commons licenses and is available for free download at the Yale ISP website.

In developing the reports, the Yale ISP partnered with academic institutions abroad at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Addis Abeba, and the University of Cape Town. Research teams within these and other institutions have joined with the Yale ISP to form the A2K Global Academy, a network of academic centers dedicated to research, education, and policy analysis promoting access to knowledge.

The project has already resulted in two books, both forthcoming from the open access publishing imprint Bloomsbury Academic this winter: Access to Knowledge in Brazil: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development, and Access to Knowledge in Egypt: New Research on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Development.

Research examining related topics in India and China was launched in August 2009. The newest installment, featuring insights into the state of access to knowledge in Argentina, Ethiopia, and South Africa, completes the series of seven reports. Topics addressed by the research include: open source software, alternative business models for cultural production, exceptions and limitations to copyright, ICT for development, access to medicines, open educational resources, technological standards, and biotechnology.

The three-year research project was supported with funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, as part of an initiative supporting international academic collaboration on access to knowledge challenges and opportunities.

“Innovation is the basis for economic growth and finding solutions to pressing problems,” said Lea Shaver, director of the ISP’s research program in access to knowledge. “But law and policy do not always support innovation optimally, nor ensure that new knowledge spreads as widely as it could. This research offers important guidance to policymakers, particularly in the context of developing countries.”

Continuing its academic work in this area, the Yale ISP will host a major conference on access to knowledge and human rights on February 12-13, 2010 at Yale Law School.

The Yale Information Society Project is an intellectual center at Yale Law School that studies the implications of new information technologies for law and society, guided by values of democracy, human rights, and innovation. For more information, visit isp.law.yale.edu.

Reference: European Union Case Law

ct286 — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:45:00 +0000

The Law Library has a variety of case law materials in print from the European Union, including:

Proceedings of the Court of Justice and of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities

Reports of Cases Before the Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance, usually referred to as European Court Reports (ECR)

Common Market Law Reports (CML) and European Union Law Reporter

European Commercial Cases

International Law Reports

Case law is also available online from the EU, as well as on LexisNexis Law School and Westlaw.