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Double Jeopardy!

Put your image here. Double Jeopardy!. AALL, Boston, July 2004. Cooperative Initiatives. The Fourth Dimension. Foreign Law Collections. Foreign Law Specialists. “Old” Languages and Laws. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 600. 600. 600. 600. 600. 800. 800.

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Double Jeopardy!

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  1. Put your image here. Double Jeopardy! AALL, Boston, July 2004

  2. Cooperative Initiatives The Fourth Dimension Foreign Law Collections Foreign Law Specialists “Old” Languages and Laws 200 200 200 200 200 400 400 400 400 400 600 600 600 600 600 800 800 800 800 800 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000

  3. Cooperative Initiatives 200 Points Established in 1983, this East Coast network facilitates resource-sharing and licensing database contracts for foreign law (such as the Chinese isinolaw database) .

  4. Cooperative Initiatives 200 Points What is the New England Law Library Consortium or NELLCO?

  5. Cooperative Initiatives 400 Points Headed by Jerry Dupont, this cooperative project has microform collections of major French, German, Italian, and Spanish civil law works.

  6. Cooperative Initiatives 400 Points What is the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC)?

  7. Cooperative Initiatives 600 Points The Research Libraries Group (RLG) developed this system of collecting levels, including for foreign law.

  8. Cooperative Initiatives 600 Points What is the RLG Conspectus?

  9. Cooperative Initiatives 800 Points This project with a patriotic name is an Internet-based union list of foreign, international and comparative law holdings; it is a successful initiative of the UK consortium of academic law libraries called FLARE.

  10. Cooperative Initiatives 800 Points What is the Foreign Law Guide or FLAG?

  11. Cooperative Initiatives 1000 Points This is the union catalog of holdings of these eight law school libraries with major foreign law collections: Boalt Hall (University of California at Berkeley), Columbia, Fordham, New York University, Pennsylvania, Texas, University of Washington, and Yale.

  12. Cooperative Initiatives 1000 Points What is Access Law?

  13. The Fourth Dimension 200 Points This is the time differential between Boston, USA and Paris, France.

  14. The Fourth Dimension 200 Points What is 6 hours?

  15. The Fourth Dimension 400 Points It tells you what time it is in Mumbai when it’s 10 a.m. in Boston.

  16. The Fourth Dimension 400 Points What is the World Clock?

  17. The Fourth Dimension 600 Points The time and day in Sydney, Australia when it’s 10 a.m. on Wednesday in Boston.

  18. The Fourth Dimension 600 Points What is 12 noon on Thursday in Sydney?

  19. The Fourth Dimension 800 Points You can get French, German, Japanese, and Spanish law titles fast from this Internet-based bookseller’s family of Web sites.

  20. The Fourth Dimension 800 Points What is Amazon?

  21. The Fourth Dimension 1000 Points This is the code number needed to wire transfer money directly to a bank when paying for foreign purchases in non-U.S. dollars.

  22. The Fourth Dimension 1000 Points What is the SWIFT code?

  23. Foreign Law Collections 200 Points This U.S. library has the largest East Asian Law collection of any state-supported university.

  24. Foreign Law Collections 200 Points What is the Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington in Seattle?

  25. Foreign Law Collections 400 Points This Lone Star library has a strong collection of the law of Mexico and Latin American countries.

  26. Foreign Law Collections 400 Points What is the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas at Austin?

  27. Foreign Law Collections 600 Points This Chicago-based consortium of North American institutions has collections of foreign official gazettes, foreign doctoral dissertations, and foreign newspapers.

  28. Foreign Law Collections 600 Points What is the Center for Research Libraries or CRL?

  29. Foreign Law Collections 800 Points This Hague institution has one of the world’s largest collections of international law materials (in all languages).

  30. Foreign Law Collections 800 Points What is the Peace Palace Library?

  31. Foreign Law Collections 1000 Points This East Coast institution hosts Mirela Roznovschi’s links to foreign law databases, and, like Yale, subscribes to Chinese, German, and Israeli law databases.

  32. Foreign Law Collections 1000 Points What is New York University?

  33. Foreign Law Specialists 200 Points She compiled the Directory of Foreign Law Collections in Selected Law Libraries (along with Tom Bruce) and established the Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL SIS) travel grants for non-U.S. librarians to attend the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).

  34. Foreign Law Specialists 200 Points Who is Ellen Schaffer?

  35. Foreign Law Specialists 400 Points Currently at Yale Law Library, he helped build the foreign law collection at the University of Houston, and authored a chapter on collecting foreign law in Introduction toForeign Legal Systems (1994).

  36. Foreign Law Specialists 400 Points Who is Dan Wade?

  37. Foreign Law Specialists 600 Points She is the Scandinavian law bibliographer at the University of Minnesota, with special expertise in Swedish legal materials.

  38. Foreign Law Specialists 600 Points Who is Suzanne Thorpe?

  39. Foreign Law Specialists 800 Points She is director of Cornell Law Library and author of Transnational Law Research and Guide to Foreign Legal Materials: French.

  40. Foreign Law Specialists 800 Points Who is Claire Germain?

  41. Foreign Law Specialists 1000 Points This e-mail network of foreign and international law librarians worldwide, begun in 1991 at Minnesota by Lyo Louis-Jacques and Mila Rush, is at majordomo@listhost.ciesin.org or majordomo@ciesin.columbia.edu.

  42. Foreign Law Specialists 1000 Points What is INT-LAW? (Other lists are LAW-ACQ, FCIL-SIS, and IALLMembers)

  43. “Old” Languages and Laws 200 Points This standard West reference tool includes the definitions of many Latin phrases and maxims and Roman law terms.

  44. “Old” Languages and Laws 200 Points What is Black’s Law Dictionary?

  45. “Old” Languages and Laws 400 Points Until the 17th century, most legal documents in England were written in Latin or in this language.

  46. “Old” Languages and Laws 400 Points What is “Law French”?

  47. “Old” Languages and Laws 600 Points This 17th century Dutch jurist is considered one of the founding fathers of public international law.

  48. “Old” Languages and Laws 600 Points Who was Hugo Grotius (the Latin name of Hugo de Groot, 1583-1645)?

  49. “Old” Languages and Laws 800 Points It consists of the Digest (or Pandect), the Institutes, the Codex, and the Novels.

  50. “Old” Languages and Laws 800 Points What is the Corpus Juris Civilis?

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