GlobaLex November/December 2023 issue is live featuring seven updates: Algeria, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Liberia, North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia), Sierra Leone, and Human Right to Water. Webmasters and content managers, please update your pages and please note that North Macedonia has a new URL to reflect the name change. We thank all our wonderful authors, new and established, for their excellent contributions and commitment to open access authorship!
UPDATE: Algerian Legal Research by Vincent Ramette at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Vincent Ramette is a specialist in real estate collective investment (REIT) and financial law. He oversees financial regulatory compliance, risk management, and personal data protection in an investment management company in France. He was the director of the internet customer department for a major international publisher and worked as the director of knowledge management at a global law firm. He is a former independent expert in business and corporate law and worked as a senior expert in business performance and legal databases for the European Commission (Algiers, Eastern European countries, and Moscow). He wrote numerous articles on legal information and was involved in continuous education for lawyers. Vincent holds an MA in Business Law and a bachelor’s degree in education sciences. He is an expert in lean management.
UPDATE: The Legal System of the Peoples’ Republic of Bangladesh by Mohammad Ershadul Karim at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Dr. Mohammad Ershadul Karim is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and a non-practicing lawyer enrolled with Bangladesh Supreme Court.
UPDATE: Researching the Legal System of the Kingdom of Bhutan by Pema Needup and Dr Mohammad Ershadul Karim at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Pema Needup is currently the Director General of the Bhutan National Legal Institute in Thimphu, Bhutan.
Dr Mohammad Ershadul Karim is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia and a non-practicing lawyer enrolled with the Bangladesh Supreme Court.
UPDATE: Introducing the Legal System of North Macedonia by Servaas Feiertag, LL.M. at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Mr. Servaas Feiertag is an independent consultant and senior international expert at Servaas Feiertag Consultancy in the areas of the rule of law, justice reform, good governance, integrity & anti-corruption mechanisms, and organizational development in South Eastern Europe (since 2020, notably in the Republic of North Macedonia with public institutions and civil society), Sub Saharan Africa, and the MENA region. Over the last 25 years he has held various senior expert and management positions at the international level such as program manager, principal legal counsel, senior legal consultant/team leader, and project leader.
UPDATE: Liberian Legal System and Legal Research by Hanatu Kabbah at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
UPDATE: Sierra Leone Legal System and Legal Research by Hanatu Kabbah at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Hanatu Kabbah holds an LL.B. (Hons.) and an LL.M. (Public Service Law) degree from NYU. She is a senior legal consultant and researcher, public interest practitioner with extensive experience working on access to justice in the formal and informal justice sector. She has considerable expertise in human rights, rule of law and governance with broad work experience in conflict, fragile and post conflict & transitional societies. She has researched widely on rule of law issues and developed tools for legal and non-legal advocates. She taught at the Faculty of Law, University of the Gambia and was the Director of the Law Clinic of the UTG. She received her Bachelor of Laws Degree with Honours (LL.B. HONS.) from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone and a Degree of Utter Barrister at the Sierra Leone Law School. She was admitted to the Sierra Leone Bar in 1999. She holds a Diploma in the Equal Status and Human Rights of Women in 2002 from the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Lund University in Sweden. She has also studied at the Rene Cassin International Institute for Human Rights in Strasbourg, France and at the OMCT (World Organization against Torture), Special Procedures Seminar, “Addressing the Economic, Social and Cultural Root Causes of Violence through the UN Special Procedures System” held in Geneva, Switzerland. She is also a Transitional Justice Fellow after studying at the Transitional Justice Fellowship Programme organized by the International Centre for Transitional Justice and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town, South Africa in 2007. She is the author of ‘A Training Manual on Women’s Rights in Sierra Leone’.
UPDATE: Researching the Human Right to Water with an Annotated Bibliography by Jootaek Lee at https://www.nyulawglobal.org/
Jootaek Lee is an associate professor and FCIL librarian at Rutgers Law School (Newark). Professor Lee is also an adjunct professor and an affiliated faculty for the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) at the Northeastern University School of Law. He is also a Massachusetts attorney. Professor Lee, a prolific scholar and author, has been published in prestigious journals, including Northwestern Journal of Human Rights, Georgetown Environmental Law Review, Law Library Journal, International Journal of Legal Information, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Korea University Law Review, and GlobaLex by New York University Law School. His research focuses on artificial intelligence and human rights, human rights to land, water and education, Asian practice of international law, especially human rights and international criminal law, legal informatics, Korean law and legal education, and pedagogy in law. He made numerous presentations at national and international conferences. He is active with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the American Society of International Law (ASIL), having served on AALL’s Annual Meeting Program Committee, Diversity Committee, CONELL Committee, and Awards Committee. He is the former Co-Chair of International Legal Research Interest Group of the ASIL (2012-2015) and the former president of Asian American Law Librarians Caucus of AALL (2013-2014).
