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The Fall issue of GlobaLex continues to celebrate its twentieth anniversary and features seven articles: Colombia, Costa Rica, Korea, Spanish Autonomous Communities, Defining Terrorism, International Criminal Courts for the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone, and Understanding European Union Legal Materials. Webmasters and content managers, please update your pages. We thank all our new and established authors for their excellent contributions and their unwavering commitment to open-access scholarship! If you are interested in receiving direct updates, please subscribe to the new issue updates.

An Introduction to Colombian Governmental Institutions and Primary Legal Sources by Hernando Otero

Hernando Otero is an international arbitration and mediation attorney with experience as a counsel of record and as an international arbitrator in proceedings pursuant to multilateral and bilateral trade and investment treaties (FTAs and BITs) and commercial agreements. He is a professor of arbitration and mediation at the Washington College of Law and the International Law Institute in Washington, D.C. He is licensed to practice law in the state of New York, the District of Columbia, and the Republic of Colombia.

Legal Research in Costa Rica by Roger A. Petersen

Roger A. Petersen is an Attorney at Law and a member of both the Costa Rican Bar and Florida Bar Association. He is the author of The Legal Guide to Costa Rica and a partner with P Law Group of San Jose, Costa Rica.

Research and Bibliography for Korean Law Resources in English by Jootaek Lee

Jootaek Lee is a tenured associate professor and foreign, comparative, and international law librarian at Rutgers Law School (Newark), as well as Affiliated Faculty for the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at the Northeastern University School of Law. He is currently teaching advanced legal research, introduction to American law, international business transactions, and international legal research. He is also coaching the Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court team at the Rutgers Law School and advising Rutgers International Law and Human Rights Journal. He received a B.A. from Korea University where he also received an M.A. in international law. A native of Korea, Professor Lee completed his J.D. at Florida State University, where he was also awarded M.L.S. He has previously worked for Northeastern University School of Law and University of Miami School of Law. Professor Lee, a prolific author and scholar, has been published in prestigious journals, including Georgetown Environmental Law Review, Northwestern Journal of Human Rights, Emory International Law Review, Law Library Journal, International Journal of Legal Information, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Korea University Law Review, and GlobaLex by New York University Law School. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and human rights, human rights to land, water and education, Asian practice of international law, legal informatics, Korean law and legal education, and pedagogy in law. Professor Lee made numerous presentations at national and international conferences. He is also active with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the American Society of International Law (ASIL), having served on AALL’s Diversity Committee, CONELL Committee, Awards Committee, and Annual Meetings Programs Committee. He is the former Co-Chair of International Legal Research Interest Group of the ASIL (2012-2015) and the former president of Asian American Law Librarians Caucus of AALL (2013-2014).

Researching the Law of the Spanish Autonomous Communities by Julienne E. Grant

Julienne E. Grant serves as Instructor & Reference Librarian at the Louis L. Biro Law Library at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. She previously spent almost eighteen years as the Foreign & International Research Specialist at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Ms. Grant has contributed to published guides on Mexican and Cuban law, and she co-authored a chapter (with Teresa M. Miguel-Stearns) in Latin American Collection Concepts: Essays on Libraries, Collaborations and New Approaches (McFarland, 2019). She is a member of the FCIL-SIS of the American Association of Law Libraries and has served as Chair of its Latin American Law Interest Group. Ms. Grant earned a B.A. from Middlebury College, an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.A.L.S. from Rosary College (now Dominican University), and a J.D. from DePaul University. In 2019, Ms. Grant earned a Certificate in Editing from the Graham School at the University of Chicago, and she is currently the editor of the International Journal of Legal Information.

Defining Terrorism in International Law by Ben Saul

Professor Ben Saul is the Challis Chair of International Law at the University of Sydney, Australia and since 2023, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism. He has taught at Harvard, Oxford, The Hague, and Xiamen Academies of International Law and in Italy, India, Nepal, and Cambodia. Saul has also been a visitor at the Max Planck Institute for International Law and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights. He was previously an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London and the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism in The Hague. He has published twenty books and over a hundred refereed articles, including the books Defining Terrorism in International Law (2006), the Oxford Commentary on the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2014) (awarded a Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law), Research Handbook on International Law and Terrorism (2020), Oxford Guide to International Humanitarian Law (2020), and the Oxford Handbook on International Law in Asia and the Pacific (2019). Ben has advised United Nations entities, governments, parliaments, militaries, intelligence services, and NGOs; practiced in international courts; served on numerous professional bodies; and undertaken missions in over forty countries. He has a doctorate from Oxford and honors degrees in Arts and Law from Sydney.

International Criminal Courts for the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone – Online and Print Resources by Andrew Dorchak

Andrew Dorchak is the Head of Reference and Foreign/International Law Specialist at The Judge Ben C. Green Law Library at Case Western Reserve University’s School of Law. He has assisted law students researching international criminal law topics since 2002.

Understanding European Union Legal Materials by Janet Kearney

Janet Kearney is the Reference/Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian at the New York University Law Library. A member of the Louisiana bar, she has a J.D. with a Certificate in Civil Law from Tulane Law School and received her M.L.I.S. and B.A. in International Studies from Louisiana State University.

 

 

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