Yale Law School Blogs

HeinOnline's Blog this week has a nice entry on the Treaty of Lisbon with links to finding scholarly articles about the "Road to Lisbon" and other EU treaties. Briefly, Czech President Vaclav Klaus ratified the Treaty of Lisbon on November 3, 2009.  The Czech Republic was the final Member State to ratify the Treaty.  The ...

Directed by Pantelis Voulgaris, the award-winning and beautifully filmed Brides is set in 1922 aboard the SS King Alexander.  Niki is a mail order bride from Greece bound for her new husband in Chicago. Norman is an American photographer on his way home to a failed marriage.  Niki and Norman befriend one another and share more than a ...

  To answer the most frequently asked question of the week....     The fish are back!     right next to (but not to be confused with) the fiche, on the UES.      

Feliz Dieciocho, Chile! Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, also sends her congratulations to Chile today, on its 199th anniversary of independence.    Not only is Chile know for its wines, but it is also one of the top five legal publishers in Latin America. Our Country-by-Country page contains several Chilean legal ...

The just-released Treaties in Force 2009 publication by the U.S. Department of State will tell you what bilateral and mulitlateral treaties to which the United States is a party are currently in force.  This is an annual publication also available in print and on HeinOnline (subscription database available to Yale ...

Our very own Zachary D. Kaufman, YLS JD Candidate '09, will be giving a book talk this Friday, April 17, 2009, at 4:00pm, in the Law Library's L3 Periodical Reading Room.  Zach, an Olin Fellow and editor-in-chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review edited After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and ...

On Thursday, April 16, 2009, at 5:30 pm, Labyrinth Books and the Yale Law Library invite you to a discussion about election reform with Heather Gerken in honor of her new book, The Democracy Index.  The book talk will take place at Labyrinth Books, 290 York Street, New Haven. Despite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from ...

Our very own Zachary D. Kaufman, YLS JD Candidate '09, will be giving a book talk this Friday, April 17, 2009, at 4:00pm, in the Law Library's L3 Periodical Reading Room.  Zach, an Olin Fellow and editor-in-chief of the Yale Law & Policy Review edited After Genocide: Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and ...

The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies has released a new easy-to-use treaty index: FIT, the Flare Index to Treaties. FIT is searchable by any one or a combination of the following: keywords drawn from the official, popular and alternative titles which have been used for each treaty additional keywords relevant to ...

The State Deparment recently began publishing online the Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS).  This website is open-access and a work-in-progress. As of today there are only treaties from the years 1996 - 1998.  The treaties are available in pdf.  UPDATE: TIAS is now available up to 2001. You can find scanned pdfs ...