GlobaLex May/June 2025 Issue is Live

[Lucie Olejnikova - GlobaLex]

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Dear Colleagues, 

As GlobaLex continues to celebrate its twentieth anniversary this year, the May/June 2025 Issue brings the readers one new article: Internally Displaced Persons, and seven updates: Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, International Consumer Protection, and À la Recherche des Travaux Préparatoires. 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.

Internally Displaced Persons by Aderomola Adeola at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/internally-displaced-persons.html.

Aderomola Adeola is the Director of the Global Hub on Internal Displacement. She holds an LLM from Harvard Law School and has a PhD from the University of Pretoria. She was previously a Steinberg Fellow in International Migration Law and Policy at McGill University in Canada. She is the author of various academic works, including The Internally Displaced Person in International Law (Edward Elgar, 2020) and Development-Induced Displacement and Human Rights in Africa: The Kampala Convention (Routledge, 2020), and has provided significant expertise to governments on the protection of internally displaced persons. 

Legal Research in Norway by Rebecca J. Five Bergstrøm at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/norway1.html.

Rebecca Josefine Five Bergstrøm is an academic librarian at the Law Library of the University of Oslo. She holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Oslo and specializes in research support services. Rebecca has been instrumental in developing legal support services related to research data at the University Library. Over the past five years, she has focused on open research and its legal implications, providing guidance on copyright and data privacy. Rebecca is a published author. She is also a member of the board of directors of the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) and a member of the LIBER Copyright & Legal Matters Working Group.

Legal System and Research in Portugal by Raquel Ferreira Pedrosa Alves at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/portugal1.html.

Raquel Ferreira Pedrosa Alves is a Portuguese lawyer registered at the Portuguese Bar Association since 2005. Currently, Raquel is a Senior Legal Adviser working in the fields of administrative law, public procurement, corporate law, and compliance at Transportes Metropolitanos de Lisboa. She is responsible for managing the public road transport service in the Lisbon Metropolitan area and the technological platform integrating the ticketing and public information system, as well as for developing studies and plans and implementing accessibility, mobility, and transport policies. Previously, she worked as a Regulatory & Legal Adviser in the areas of administrative and public law, regulation, electronic communications, e-commerce, and space law at Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (ANACOM)/National Communications Authority in Portugal.

Legal Research in Romania by Anamaria Corbescu at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/romania1.html.

Anamaria Corbescu completed her J.D. at the University of Bucharest (Bucharest, 2002) and was a Fulbright scholar pursuing her LL.M. studies at Columbia University in New York (2009). Her education also includes: the EU Law Program (University of Bucharest, 2001), the American Institute on Political and Economic Systems (Georgetown University, Washington D.C./Charles University, Prague, 2001), the Academy of Economic Studies (M.Sc. Econ., Bucharest, 2004), Foundations of American Law and Legal Education Program (Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 2008).

Legal System and Legal Research in the Republic of Slovenia by Dr. Iztok Štefanec at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/slovenia1.html.

Iztok Štefanec holds a law degree (2010) and Ph.D. in Constitutional Law (2018), both from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a teaching assistant for constitutional law and currently works as an adviser to the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia.

Swedish Law and Legal Materials by Sofia Sternberg at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/sweden1.html.

Sofia Sternberg is currently the librarian at the Swedish Supreme Court in Stockholm. She has a law degree as well as a master’s degree in library and information science and has practised law for five years before becoming a librarian. Before starting at the court in 2016, she worked for many years at the Law Library of Uppsala University, Sweden, where she was mainly involved in library instruction for students and was responsible for the library’s European documentation centre.

International Law and Consumer Protection by Antonella Corradi at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/international_law_consumer_protection1.html.

Antonella Corradi earned a degree in Law from the University of Rome, “La Sapienza” (June 1991). She works at the Ministry of Culture of Italy. She has written many articles, including for example, a 2024 article titled The Regulatory Landscape of Biobanks in Europe: From Accreditation to Intellectual Property. She has also co-authored an article titled Biobank on Balance between Private Property and Commons: Patents or Open Data Sharing?, published in JLIS in 2010. She is a statutory auditor on behalf of the Ministry of Culture of Italy.

À la Recherche des Travaux Préparatoires: An Approach to Researching the Drafting History of International Agreements by Jonathan Pratter at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/travaux_preparatoires1.html.

Jonathan Pratter has been a Foreign and International Law Librarian at Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research of the University of Texas at Austin since 1985. He holds a law degree from the University of Nebraska and a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois. When not working, teaching, or writing as a law librarian, he can be found studying a new foreign language or taking a long walk.

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Warm Regards, 

Lucie 

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