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Feb. 27, 2006.
Kristy Moon, editor.
New Display – Nuremberg Tribunal
This past weekend, the Law School hosted the Amnesty International USA
Lawyers’ Conference, in conjunction with the Law School’s Fitzpatrick Fund and
Condon-Falknor Lecture. The theme of the conference was “Fulfilling the Legacy:
International Justice 60 Years After Nuremberg.” In honor of the event, the Law
Library is featuring a new display on the Nuremberg Tribunal. The display is
located in the two glass cases, just outside of the Library’s doors.
The Law Library is fortunate to have in its collection trial documents from
the Nuremberg Tribunal: a set of the original transcripts of proceedings and
English translations of documents submitted to the International Military
Tribunal (Nov. 1945 - Oct. 1946) and the United States Nuremberg Military
Tribunal “Subsequent Proceedings” (Nov. 1946 – Nov. 1948). These materials were
distributed to thirteen organizations by the Office of the U.S. Chief of
Counsel for War Crimes. This set of over 1200 bound volumes include trial
transcripts, exhibits (e.g., translated documents, photographs), and procedural
material.
Due to the rare and fragile nature of these materials, they’re kept in a
nonpublic area; you can make special arrangements to use them. Many materials
and some transcripts from the trials are available online at the Harvard Law
Library’s Nuremberg Trials Project,
http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu, and the Yale Law School’s Avalon Project,
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm.
Free Movie Rentals
-- Ann Hemmens
Do you need a break from studying? Are you living on a budget and tired of
paying for movie tickets? Maybe you subscribe to NetFlix (where you can rent
DVDs online for a monthly fee). Or maybe you just stop in your neighborhood
video rental store (Scarecrow, Broadway Market Video, Rain City Video) on
Friday night looking for a good video. But you can also rent videos for free
from the UW Libraries. The Media Center in the Odegaard Undergraduate Library
(on Red Square) has more than 25,000 items in a variety of formats (VHS, DVD,
compact discs, and audiotapes).
How can you find a video? Search the
UW Libraries Catalog by
author, title, or keyword. One tip: use the
Advanced Keyword Search,
type the name of an actor (e.g., Johnny Depp) in the “Any Field” segment,
select the “Videos, Slides, Media” in the “Publication Type” segment, and
select the location of “Odegaard Undergraduate Library.” You’ll see that the
movies Finding Neverland, Benny & Joon, and Chocolat are available.
Another way to find videos is to browse the
lists of videos,
DVDs, and CDs. This webpage includes links to titles of videos organized by
the following categories:
- New Arrivals
- Films by Genre (e.g., comedy, detective & mystery, documentary, horror)
- Films by Country (e.g., Brazil, Japan, Netherlands)
- Other Genres (e.g., biographical, travelogues, music videos)
- Television Genres (e.g., animated, reality programs, television programs
(e.g., 24, Alias, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer))
If you are still searching for the perfect video to watch, check out the
Internet Movie Database. Search this free
“catalog of movies” by title or keyword, or browse their lists of “Top 250
films” and “Award Winners.” Once you find a title you want, search the
UW Libraries Catalog
to see if it is available on campus.
UW Libraries Media Center
videos have a three-day loan period. An item can be renewed online up to three
times, if no one else has placed a hold on it. There is a four-day “grace
period” to return the item, but they do charge overdue fines. Pick up a free
video at the Media Center in Odegaard Library to watch tonight.
Book of the Week: Rights and Liberties in the Biotech
Age: Why We Need a Genetic Bill of Rights
-- Mary Whisner
In 2000, the Council for Responsible Genetics – a non-profit group based in
Cambridge, MA – proposed a Genetic Bill of Rights. The ten articles of the Bill
of Rights address such diverse topics as biodiversity, patent rights in living
organisms, genetically modified food, genetic discrimination, and defendants’
access to DNA testing in criminal proceedings.
Last year, the Council for Responsible Genetics brought out a book with
essays addressing each article. The authors are activists, scientists, and
scholars from many disciplines.
As you would think from the subtitle (“Why We Need a Genetic Bill of
Rights”), the editors did not try to present all sides of each issue, although
there is some diversity among the positions favoring the Bill of Rights. For
instance, Article 3 provides: “All people have the right to a food supply that
has not been genetically engineered.” The three authors writing in that section
of the book raise different concerns, from uncertainty about the safety of
genetically engineered food to the need for Third World farmers to be
independent of multinational seed companies to the cultural importance of
different strains of maize to the Mexican people.
Professor Paul Steven Miller, who used to be a commissioner of the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission, wrote a piece in the section about genetic
discrimination, with a focus on discrimination in the workplace.
Students interested in criminal work might be interested in the two pieces
on exculpatory DNA evidence. One of the pieces was written by two lawyers from
the Innocence Project at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
The book is at TP248.23 .R545 2005 at Classified Stacks (on L2).
For more information on the Council for Responsible Genetics, see
http://www.gene-watch.org. Information
about the Genetic Bill of Rights is at
http://www.gene-watch.org/programs/bill-of-rights.html.
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