GlobaLex January/February 2026 Issue is Live

[Lucie Olejnikova - GlobaLex]

EXCUSE DUPLICATION

Dear Colleagues, 

The January/February 2026 issue of GlobaLex is live, featuring one new article and six updates: Benin (English and French), Japan, New Zealand, Introduction to Sources of Treaty Research, International Trademark Law, and Introduction to Public International Law Research. I am happy to highlight that Benin now marks the third article, along with Togo and the Ivory Coast, available in both English and French. Webmasters and content managers, please update your pages. We thank all our authors (new and established) 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.

Introduction au Système Juridique et Judiciaire du Bénin Par le Dr Gérard AÏVO et Lazard H. HOUNSA at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/benin1.html.

Introduction to the Legal and Judicial System of Benin by Dr. Gérard AÏVO and Lazard H. HOUNSA at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/benin1_eng.html.

 

Gérard Aïvo est Agrégé des Facultés de droit, Professeur en droit public, Chef du Département de droit public, Enseignant- Chercheur à la faculté de droit et de science politique de l’Université d’Abomey Calavi du Bénin. | Gérard Aïvo is an Associate Professor of Law, Professor of Public Law, Head of the Department of Public Law, and Lecturer-Researcher at the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin.

Lazard Hounsa est Juriste et chercheur, Président de l’association des Jeunes juristes du Bénin, membre du Centre de droit constitutionnel. | Lazard Hounsa is a Lawyer and Researcher, President of the Association of Young Lawyers of Benin, and a member of the Constitutional Law Center.

Researching Japanese Law by Keiko Okuhara at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/japan1.html.

Keiko Okuhara is a librarian at the University of Hawaii at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law Library.

Researching the New Zealand Law by Julius Hattingh and Mia Petrovic at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/new_zealand1.html.

Julius Hattingh graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, with a BA/LLB (Hons) in 2019. He practiced Intellectual Property and Technology Law at Bell Gully and Hudson Gavin Martin in New Zealand for 4 years. Julius completed his LL.M. at Yale Law School in 2025. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Yale Law School, focusing on issues in legal theory and technology.

Mia Petrovic graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, with a BA/LLB in 2019. She clerked at Russell McVeagh before finding her niche in Family Law at Simpson Western, New Zealand, where she practiced from 2019 to 2024. Recently, Mia has worked as an Estates and Family Law Paralegal in Connecticut, U.S. Mia has a particular interest in court administration and improving access to justice for family law and related civil matters.

An Introduction to Sources for Treaty Research by Mark Engsberg and Isa Elfers at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/treaty_research1.html.

Mark Engsberg is the Director of Library Services and Professor of Practice at the Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library at Emory University School of Law. Before coming to Emory Law, he worked at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School for 8 years, where he served as the international and foreign law reference librarian and head of reference. Professor Engsberg is active in professional legal and law librarianship organizations. From 2005 to 2022, he served as editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Legal Information, published by the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL). He became president of IALL in 2022 and recently began serving his second three-year term in that role. Engsberg received his M.S.L.I.S. degree, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds a J.D. from Willamette University College of Law in Salem, OR, and a B.A. from Drury University in Springfield, MO.

Isa Elfers is a Law Librarian for Research Services at the Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library at Emory University School of Law. She holds an M.L.I.S. from Louisiana State University, a J.D. from the University of California College of Law, San Francisco (UC Law SF, formerly UC Hastings), and a B.A. in literature and creative writing from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

International Trademark Law – The Madrid System by Vicenç Feliú at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/international_trademark_law1.html.

Introduction to Public International Law Research by Vicenç Feliú at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/public_international_law_research1.html.

Vicenç Feliú is the Associate Dean, Professor of Law, and Director of the Intellectual Property Concentration at Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law. He graduated from Franklin Pierce School of Law, Concord, NH, with a JD and an LLM in Intellectual Property and from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, with an MLIS with an emphasis in Law Librarianship. He is the author of several articles on the Civil Law in Louisiana, Intellectual Property Law, and Legal Research Pedagogy. His articles are published in the Journal of Legal Education, the Louisiana Law Review, the International Journal of Legal Information, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, the Ohio Northern University Law Review, the Villanova Law Review, the John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law, the Rutgers Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. Along with Professor Alain Levasseur, he is the co-author of Louis Moreau Lislet: The Man behind the Code of 1808, a book on the life and work of the writer of the Louisiana Civil Code.

For more articles, visit https://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/index.html. 

Warm Regards, 

Lucie 

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