StC on the Law Library of Congress

Standing Committee on the
Law Library of Congress

Mission

Since 1932, the Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress has served as the Association’s connection to and voice of the legal profession concerning the continued development and effective operation of the Law Library of Congress. The Law Library of Congress boasts the largest lawbook collection in the world and a growing electronic database for access to this resource. Working with other nationally recognized professional societies,the Committee facilitates efforts to increase Law Library visibility and supports the digitization of legal materials and other efforts that improve access to legal literature and resources. The Committee has continued to work toward the development of the Law Library of Congress as a national resource serving not only the Congress, but also the legal profession, universities and law schools, and the public.

The Law Library of Congress Publishes the Global Legal Monitor

For all lawyers who follow emerging legal matters world wide, a vital Internet tool is now available. The ABA's Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress is proud to announce initiation by the Law Library's staff of the GLOBAL LEGAL MONITOR ("GLM"). Updated day-to- day (hour-to-hour, if needed), GLM is now available without charge through the Library's public website, http://www.loc.gov/law/public/reports/GLM1.pdf

Encompassing materials from official national legal publications and the Library's Global Legal Information Network, GLM was first posted on May 18, 2006, sourced initially from 65 nations and international organizations. That number is expected to grow. International materials gradually to be added: information on lectures, conferences, symposia and exhibits on timely international legal topics sponsored by the Law Library.

Long regarded as the nation's foremost source of foreign, international and comparative law, the Law Library of Congress has worked with the Standing Committee for over a year to accomplish faster, wider publication of developments in those fields.

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Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress
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202/662-1694
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Division for Public Services 2007 - 2008 Clerkship

The Clerkship is a unique program designed for law students to engage in an individualized public interest legal research and writing project in Washington, DC. In concert with Division attorneys and a law school faculty reviewer, a student will develop and complete a substantive legal monograph that may be published, if of a quality acceptable by the ABA. The Clerkship is unpaid. We encourage law students to incorporate the Clerkship into an externship/internship program at their law school and/or to seek supportive law school funding where needed.

2007-2008 Clerkship Flyer

For information about the Clerkship, please call 202/662-1691 or email cccoleman@staff.abanet.org.

Also, see our ad in the September issue of the Student Lawyer magazine.