Partenariat entre Cornell et la Cour de cassation : Cornell fonde un
centre de documentation sur le droit américain auprès de la Cour de
cassation

La Faculté de droit de Cornell établit un Centre pour la
Documentation sur le Droit américain ("Cornell Center for
Documentation on American Law") à la cour suprême française à Paris
(Cour de cassation). Leur bibliothèque de droit envoie 13 000 volumes
à la cour française, et offre une assistance à la recherche
électronique.

Pour plus d'information, lire le communiqué publié par l'Université
de Cornell
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/newsstory.cfm?pageid=56366

Emmanuel Barthe

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Cornell Law School Expands French Connection through Innovative
Collaboration with France's Highest Court

Cornell Law School and the Cour de cassation, France's top civil and
criminal court, have agreed to establish the Cornell Center for
Documentation on American Law. The new Center, which will be housed
in the ancient premises of the Cour de cassation in the Palais de
Justice in Paris, will include a 13,000-volume collection of law
books from Cornell Law School's Law Library as well as special
training and instruction from Law School librarians.

This new partnership supplements the Law School's already strong
relationships in France, such as its fourteen year joint-venture with
the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in a popular Summer
Institute of International and Comparative Law in Paris, and a unique
4-year American/French law degree: the J.D./Master en Droit.

"I am delighted that Cornell Law School is in the forefront of such
innovative networking," said Stewart J. Schwab, the Law School's
Allan R. Tessler Dean. "This new partnership with the Cour de
cassation shows imagination and is yet another indication of the
increased role we are playing in Europe."

The venture, which has been supported by the Court's First President,
Guy Canivet, (who was subsequently promoted to the Constitutional
Council), will enable the French judiciary to better familiarize
themselves with American law and will lead to enhanced dialogue
between judges and academics of the two countries. The collaborating
partners also believe that cultural initiatives like this one can
have a significant and beneficial impact on the political relations
between the two countries and old allies.

The Cornell Center will be dedicated and a commemorative plaque will
be officially unveiled on July 17, 2007, as part of a groundbreaking
judicial conference that will be taking place between the chief
justices of European countries and the United States. The
establishment of the Center will be featured as a concrete step
toward fulfilling the justices' aspirational goals of cross-cultural
exchange and cooperation. In attendance at this ceremony will be Dean
Schwab; Professor Claire Germain, the Edward Cornell Law Librarian
and Professor of Law at Cornell Law School; with Chief Justice
Roberts and other members of the U.S. Supreme Court. The conference
of justices will be chaired by Lord Phillips, the English Lord Chief
Justice, and will also be attended by the chief justices of the
European Union countries. Sir Basil Markesinis QC, who taught at the
Cornell Law School for many years and is the Scientific Adviser to
the First President, was instrumental in the arrangements for the
Center's creation.

Professor and Cornell Law Librarian Germain said: "I am proud to
provide this collection and the electronic research and instruction
of our expert staff, to allow such an international dialogue and
exchange of ideas and interests to take shape. One cannot have a
substantive conversation without having the information to go with
it."

Writing to Dean Schwab, President Canivet said: "You and your school
are taking a pioneering decision which is bound to have deep
political and judicial and intellectual repercussions for which I not
only congratulate you but also thank you profoundly."