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May 27-30, 2009

The China–United States Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries will be held in Beijing from May 27-30, 2009. The venue for the conference is the Beijing Friendship Hotel, located in the university district of Beijing.

The Conference will be an opportunity for law librarians and legal information professionals from both the U.S. and China to share experiences and exchange views in regard to legal information development and law library management. The major goals of the Conference are to promote communication and cooperation in the area of legal information and law libraries between the two countries.

More detailed program information will be posted shortly.

Conference Steering Committee Members

Frank Y. Liu (Co-Chair)
Director of the Center for Legal Information & Professor of Law
Duquesne University School of Law

Janis L. Johnston (Co-Chair)
Director of the Law Library & Associate Professor of Law
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign School of Law

Robert H. Hu (Secretary)
Director of the Law Library & Assistant Professor of Law
St. Mary’s University School of Law

Wei Luo (Treasurer)
Director of Technical Services and Lecturer in Law
Washington University Law Library

Joan Liu
Head of Acquisitions & Serials
New York University Law Library

Betsy McKenzie
Director
Suffolk University Law Library

Kara Phillips
Collection Development/Associate Executive Librarian
Seattle University School of Law

Leina’ala Seeger
Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law
The William S. Richardson School of Law
University of Hawai’i at Manoa

Sergio Stone
Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian
University of Denver Sturm College of Law – Westminster Law Library

Advisory Board Members

Harry S. Martin (Chair)
Henry N. Ness III Librarian and Professor of Law, Library Director
Harvard Law School Library

Robert C. Berring, Jr.
Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley
Boalt Hall School of Law

Philip Berwick
Associate Dean for Information Resources and Lecturer in Law
Washington University School of Law

Richard A. Danner
Senior Associate Dean for Information Services
Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law Library

Penny Hazelton
Associate Dean for Library and Computing Services, Professor of Law
Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library
University of Washington School of Law

Joan S. Howland
Roger F. Noreen Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Information and Technology
University of Minnesota Law School

Blair Kauffman
Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law
Lillian Goldman Law Library
Yale Law School

Mary Kathleen Price
Associate Dean, Library and Technology
Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law
University of Florida Frederic G. Levin College of Law