Collections
According to a recent
count (January 2010), our Library holds approximately 19,299 titles
(44,407 volumes) in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, comprising about
7% of our total collection. Of those, there are 12,359 titles (30,521
volumes) in Japanese, 5,556 titles (10,826 volumes) in Chinese,
and 1,384 titles (3,060 volumes) in Korean. In addition, there are
4,686 English language titles (7,470 volumes) on East Asian law.
We have a total of 23,985 titles (51,877 volumes) on East Asian
law in various languages (about 9% of the library's collection).
Mission
The East Asian Law
Department has as its primary purpose the support of the curricular
and research needs of the faculty and students of the University
of Washington School of Law in general, and of the
Asian Law Center
in particular. In addition, the department provides reference services
to the larger university community, the practicing bar, the general
public, and scholars and lawyers of other institutions. Interlibrary
loan requests should be sent to the
Interlibrary
Loan Department.
History
The Library's Asian
law collections had their beginnings in the 1930's with gifts of
Chinese and Japanese legal materials, including a substantial donation
of books by the Japanese Ministry of Justice. Though the focus for
many years was on Japanese law, the Library now actively collects
legal publications of China, South Korea, and Taiwan, as well as
Japan.
For more on the history
of Asian Law Studies at the University of Washington School of Law,
see "Landmarks
in the History of Asian Law-Related Programs at the University of
Washington School of Law." (PDF
version)
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Maps to East Asian
Law Materials in the Collection
Resource Sharing with Japan's National Diet Library
Learn more about this new
service for UW Law School students, faculty, and staff.
University of Washington
East Asia Library
Another important
on-campus resource for information on East Asia is the
East Asia Library,
where you will find books, periodicals, directories, indexes and
other useful resources for many aspects of East Asian law-related
research.
Collection Development
Policy
The Collection development
policy for the Library's Asian collections is available in the
Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library Collection Development Policy,
1996-. This policy is currently (as of June 2006) in the process
of extensive revision. Though primary funding is from the
State of Washington, development of the collections has benefited
greatly by generous gifts of books from alumni in Asia as well as
by occasional grants from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission,
the Japan Foundation, and the Korea Foundation.
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Publications
Note on Viewing
CJK and Special Text in Legal Research Guides
(Back)
These guides include Chinese, Japanese, and/or Korean
(CJK) text and other special characters (such as umlauts and macrons).
Windows 2000 and Windows XP can be set up to view the CJK characters.
Users of Windows 95 or Windows 98 can find information about downloading
free software to view CJK, go to the Microsoft website
(click here), or click on Tools, Windows Update in Internet
Explorer.
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