Special Topics: International
Documents
LIS 730 -- Winter Term
2005
Instructor: Dr. Samuel E. Trosow
Time & Place Friday 1:30-4:20 p.m.
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 7th & 14th
Course Overview (no class Jan
14th, make-up session to be scheduled in February)
Review of Useful Resources
Finding Exercise #1 assigned
Week 3: January 21st
Finding Exercise #1 Due
Overview of Treaty Research
Overview of United Nations
Week 4:
January 28th
United Nations
Finding Exercise #2 assigned
Week 5:
February 4th
United Nations
Week 6: February 11th
Finding Exercise #2 due
European Union
Week 7:
February 18th
OECD, NATO, NAFTA & the
FTAA
No Class February 25th
Week 8: March 4th
Quiz (covering through week
7)
Resources in Foreign &
Comparative Law
Week 9:
March 11th
World Trade Organization
& UNCTAD
Week 10: March 18th
Other UN Commissions,
Agencies, Programmes, Funds & Related Organizations
Team Presentations
Week 11: March
25th: NO CLASS
Week 12: April 1st
Private International Law
Week 13: April 8th
Individual
Pathfinder Presentations
Week 14: April 15th
Individual
Pathfinder Presentations
Pathfinders Due
Evaluation
Criteria
Finding Exercise #1 10% (due January 21st)
Finding Exercise #2 10% (due February 11th)
Quiz 15% (March 4th , closed book, 75 minutes)
Team Project: 20% (due March 18th)
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 4th
Class presentations: April 8th
& 15th
Written pathfinder due: In class April 15th
Class participation: 10%