The International Video Law Library is a fantastic place to find, listen to, and watch leading experts in the field discuss substantive international law issues.  Also within the International Video Law Library is the Human Rights Video Library.

Some of the lectures in the library include:

• Thomas Buergenthal, Judge at the International Court of Justice, speaks about reservations to treaties.

• Philippe Kirsch, President of the International Criminal Court,  for an interview in September 2005 in which he introduced himself, and went on to give the historical background of the creation of the International Criminal Court.  President Kirsch then when on to explain how the Court functions, its structure, and finally gave a status report of the Court's activites as of 2005.

• James Crawford , Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, considers his time at the UN International Law Commission as part of the Working Group on an International Criminal Court and the drafting of the 1994 Draft Statute for an International Criminal Court. The 1994 ILC Draft was source of the drafting process which ultimately lead to the 1998 Rome Diplomatic Conference and the creation of the International Criminal Court.

• Judge Navanethem Pillay, President of the International Criminal for Rwanda Tribunal (1999 - 2003) and later Judge of the International Criminal Court introduces herself and explains why the Rwanda Tribunal was established.  Judge Pillay speaks about the legacy which the ICTR will leave in respect to the evolution of international jursiprudence, and discusses the means by which the ICTR will finish its work. 

• Christine Chinkin, Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), discusses the feminist approach to international law.

There are many more.  Enjoy!

Of course the Yale Law Library has a fantastic print and electronic international law library.  For a list of our electronic international law resources, go to our webpage of Foreign, International and Transnational Law Resources.  Our international law reference books, treatises, looseleafs, and monographs are in the compact and open shelving areas and reading room on L1 as well as the Upper East Side.  The librarians are more than happy to assist you with your international legal research!

The BBC recently reported that the EU and Cuba have formally renewed ties that were severed 5 years ago following "a mass arrest of dissidents." Cuba will now receive 2 million Euros of aid for the hurricanes that swept over the island this summer; aid will increase to 30 million Euros next year.

The Yale Law Library purchases Cuban legal materials whenever possible, in both English and Spanish.  You can find Cuban materials on the Lower East Side (LES), Call No. KGN.  See, for example:

• The Role of the Judiciary in Post-Castro Cuba - KGH2545 .S26 2003
• Instrumentos internacionales sobre derechos humanos ratificados por Cuba - KGN3003 .I57 2001
• La protección del medio ambiente en Cuba - KGN3305 .A67 C66 2005

Of course we also collect interdisciplinary materials involving Cuba and the United States.  Try a Subject Heading search in our Morris catalog:

• Cuba - Foreign Relations - United States; or
• Cuba - Foreign Economic Relations - United States
• When you pull up an item record on Morris, click on any of the Subjects Headings to view other related Subject Headings.  Click again on any of the Subject Headings to find related books.
  

For a compilation of treaties involving Cuba, try another Subject Heading search: Cuba - Foreign Relations - Treaties .  Also check out the new and improved United Nations Treaty Collection database.  It's open-access and easy to search.

We also have a few Cuban DVDs:

• Lucia (1968) by Humberto Solas (one of my all-time favorites!)
• Quien Diablos es Julietta? (1967) by Carlos Marcovich
  
• Check IMDB for reviews: Lucia and Julietta
  

The Avalon Project also has documents pertaining to Cuba, specifically the Cuban Missile Crisis.