The Leitner Center for International Law and Justice has launched a new report, “International Criminal Tribunals: A Visual Overview”.  For public interest law focus, this new 90-page report provides analysis and information through visual summaries in infographics to introduce the work of the international criminal courts and tribunals. The report also reviews the conflicts that led to the establishment of each court; their costs and funding; the crimes the courts are charging, the status of each case, and their conviction rates; sentencing; and reparations.  The report is available now for download at http://www.leitnercenter.org/files/News/International Criminal Tribunals.pdf

For more details, please read the Leitner news at http://www.leitnercenter.org/news/99/

To share ideas of outreach activities, promote interests in global UN issues and encourage the use of UN information resources, Dag Hammarskjöld Library has recently launched a Global Outreach Map.  With this map, feedback about the kind of research works related to the collection of UN documents and publications, list of promotional activities and training workshops organized by the UN Depository Libraries will be published.  Click on link to view the map now,  http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/deplib/index.html

In honor of the 60^th anniversary of the appointment of Dag Hammarskjöld  as Secretary-General, the library has recently launched a new UN Documentation Research Guide (http://research.un.org/en/docs) with expanded and updated information. Beginning in April 2013, the old guide will not be updated, with the exception of the current General Assembly and Security Council resolutions tables.  New research guides include a guide to online UN information resources (http://research.un.org/en/un-resources).  For more about what newly included, please check http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/new.htm

Safari Books Online will be down for maintenance for approximately two to three hours on Saturday April 6th and Saturday April 13th at the time below:

Saturday, April 6th:
Malaysia/China Standard Time at 14:00 for up to three hours

Saturday, April 13th:
Malaysia/China Standard Time at 14:00 for up to three hours

There will be scheduled maintenance at the vendor’s data center for March 31, 2013, 11:00 pm to April 1, 2013, 1:00 am

There will be an estimated downtime of two hours for all Alexander Street products.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

A six (6) hour maintenance window is needed to install enhancements to the ProQuest and ProQuest Dialog platforms. The window will take place from Sunday, March 10, 2013, at 11:00. During this time all databases on the two platforms will not be available.

ARTstor will be performing an upgrade to our systems beginning on Sunday, January 27th at 12:00 noon and concluding on Monday, January 28th at 2:00 am. While the upgrade is being performed, users will not have access to the ARTstor Digital Library.

You are cordially invited to the annual HKLII DAY, organized by the Law Library, on Friday, 9 November 2012.

Introduction to HKLII & CLIC

1-2 pm, Lui Che Woo Law Library, 1/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, by Dr Kevin Pun, Associate Professor, Dept of Computer Science & Law, Co-Director of HKLII. Demonstration will also be given on CLIC (Community Legal Information Centre http://www.hkclic.org/, a bilingual community legal information website and a quick internet guide for the general public to find legal information in Hong Kong.  To register online, visit

http://obelix.lib.hku.hk/cgi-bin/course/list_gp_m.cgi?category=43#6488

HKLII (Hong Kong Legal Information Institute, http://www.hklii.hk) is the first comprehensive portal providing free access to public legal information in Hong Kong.  It is a project of Law & Technology Centre, a centre jointly established by Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Law, and is based on data obtained from public authorities and other sources in Hong Kong.  Databases in HKLII now comprise Judgments from most Hong Kong Courts and Tribunals; Practice Directions; Current Ordinances and Regulations; selected publications of Hong Kong Law Reform Commission; selected domain name arbitration decisions from the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; Administrative Appeals Board case notes and complaint case notes from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data.

 For enquiries, please email lawlib@lib.hku.hk or call 3917-2914.

HKLII DAY is organized by the Law Library, with support from the Faculty of Law and the Dept of Computer Science.

You are cordially invited to the Westlaw Day and Lexis Day training sessions.  Multiple sessions will be offered each day by Westlaw/Lexis specialist trainers in the Lui Che Woo Law Library, 1/F Cheng Yu Tung Tower, Centennial Campus.  For the schedule, please visit http://obelix.lib.hku.hk/cgi-bin/course/list_gp_m.cgi?category=43.   Souvenirs and training materials will be distributed to participants.  Registration is not required but seats with PCs are limited, first come first served.

Whether you are new to Lexis or Westlaw or need to reinforce your search skills, we invite you to come along.  For enquiries, please email lawlib@lib.hku.hk or call 3917-2914.

Lexis.com is an online legal research service which provides case law, law reviews, legislation and legal journal articles from Hong Kong, China, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, Malaysia, India, South Africa etc.  Lexis.com can be accessed from the University Libraries’ Key English Resources page at http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/ER/keyDB/hkul/i.

Westlaw is an online legal research service which provides a unique collection of legal and regulatory information. The collection includes case law, legislation, law reviews, treaties, and directories from Hong Kong, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, European Union.  Westlaw can be accessed from the University Libraries’ Key English Resources page at http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/ER/keyDB/hkul/i.