Special Topics: International Documents

LIS 730 -- Winter Term 2005

Instructor: Dr. Samuel E. Trosow

Time & Place Friday 1:30-4:20 p.m. Middlesex College - Room 15a

Office Hours: NCB 259 – Thursday 1:30-4:30 p.m. and by appointment

Telephone: (519) 661-2111 x88498

Email: strosow@uwo.ca

Preliminary Outline of Topics

Weeks 1 & 2: January 7^th & 14^th

Course Overview (no class Jan 14^th, make-up session to be scheduled in February)

Review of Useful Resources

Finding Exercise #1 assigned

Week 3: January 21^st

Finding Exercise #1 Due

Overview of Treaty Research

Overview of United Nations

Week 4: January 28^th

United Nations

Finding Exercise #2 assigned

Week 5: February 4^th

United Nations

Week 6: February 11^th

Finding Exercise #2 due

European Union

Week 7: February 18^th

OECD, NATO, NAFTA & the FTAA

No Class February 25^th

Week 8: March 4^th

Quiz (covering through week 7)

Resources in Foreign & Comparative Law

Week 9: March 11^th

World Trade Organization & UNCTAD

Week 10: March 18^th

Other UN Commissions, Agencies, Programmes, Funds & Related Organizations

Team Presentations

Week 11: March 25^th: NO CLASS

Week 12: April 1^st

Private International Law

Week 13: April 8^th

Individual Pathfinder Presentations

Week 14: April 15^th

Individual Pathfinder Presentations

Pathfinders Due

Evaluation Criteria

Finding Exercise #1 10% (due January 21^st)

Finding Exercise #2 10% (due February 11^th)

Quiz 15% (March 4^th , closed book, 75 minutes)

Team Project: 20% (due March 18^th)
Your team (2 or 3 people) will be assigned a specific commission, agency, or programme (i.e. WIPO, IMF, World Bank, WHO, UNESCO, ITU, ILO, UNHCR, UNCTAD, UNICEF, etc.) and you will prepare a mini-pathfinder as well as a 15 minute presentation on the organization.

Pathfinders: 35%
The pathfinder will be on a substantive topic of your choice relevant to some aspect of Foreign, Comparative & International Law, and selected in consultation with the instructor. It should be of usable quality in a library setting, and will be evaluated on literacy, organization, originality, and quality of research. You will be given approximately 15 minutes to present your work to the class during the last two sessions.

Topic Selection: No later than March 4^th
Class presentations: April 8^th & 15^th
Written pathfinder due: In class April 15^th

Class participation: 10%