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A trophy of the War of 1812

Earlier this week -- August 19, to be exact -- was the 200th anniversary of one of the U.S. Navy's most famous battles, the victory of the U.S.S. Constitution over the H.M.S. Guerriere in the War of 1812. A trophy from that battle resides in the Yale Law Library's Rare Book Collection. The trophy...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 08-24-2012
World AIDS Day - December 1

December 1 st marks World AIDS Day , commemorated annually since 1988. Events will take place around the world . The day is seen as one promoting human rights, and the campaign slogan is universal access and human rights . There is a major rights campaign under the banner of Light for Rights . According...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 11-30-2010
The European Convention on Human Rights turns 60

The European Convention on Human rights turned 60 this month. In celebration of this event, the European Court of Human Rights has devoted a page to demonstrating the Convention in video and pictures. The page even has illustrations of the specific articles of the convention, such as the right to a fair...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 11-18-2010
Finding cases from the United Kingdom

Cases from the UK are published in many reporters, both official and unofficial, and online in several databases. The new Bluebook (19th ed.) gives the names of the reporters considered authoritative and a list of acceptable online services. In fact, for cases after 2001, a neutral citation from BAILII...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 11-01-2010
Database trials for International Law, Human Rights, Tax, Tax Treaties, and eBooks

We have free trials right now for: Brill International Law & Human Rights / eBooks bundle – through November 19 - IP Access Trade Law Guide – through October - IP Access BNA Tax Treaties – through October - IP Access IBFD - International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (foreign and...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 10-06-2010
Raoul Wallenberg Day

October 5 th marks Raoul Wallenberg Day . This is the day he was awarded United States citizenship in 1981, posthumously. (The second person to receive this honor after Winston Churchill) . Part of 15th Street, SW in Washington, D.C., the section where the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is located...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 10-05-2010
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights files first sexual orientation-based discrimination case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

The Inter-American Commission on Human Right s has filed the first sexual orientation-based discrimination case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The IACHR published the following press release : IACHR TAKES CASE INVOLVING CHILE TO THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT Washington, D.C., September 20...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 10-04-2010
New International Law Research Guides

We have just created two new research guides for those of you interested in foreign and international law research; one on International Arbitration and another on International Investment Law . You will find tabs for treatises, journals, awards and decisions, treaties, institutions, and current awareness...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 09-23-2010
Trade Law Guide - trial subscription!

The Yale Law Library has obtained a trial subscription for the next month or so to the Trade Law Guide . This database is a new WTO research product. It is the only database on WTO law that enables the user to "note up" WTO law. "Noting up" refers to examining the judicial treatment...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 09-21-2010
THIS WEEK: Live Hearings from ITLOS, Hamburg, Germany

Beginning today, Tuesday, September 14, 2010, and for the next three days, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea will be transmitting live hearings from Tribunal on their website: http://www.itlos.org/procedings/video/live_en.shtml . The subject of the hearings is a Request for an Advisory...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Foreign and International Blog (Weblog) by Teresa Miguel on 09-14-2010

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