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Special Collections
National Security and Human Rights In 2006, Florida International University (FIU) College of Law Library along with FIU Green Library received a grant to develop the library collection on national security and human rights issues. This grant, sponsored by the United States Intelligence Community was received through the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy & Citizenship Studies, as part of a main grant to create a Program in National Security Studies at FIU. Over one hundred and forty new titles were added to the College of Law Library on national security and human rights issues, along with a multivolume set, an electronic database of collected documents on terrorism, and three new journal titles. The journal titles are The Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, The Palestine Yearbook of International Law, and the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, complementing the already rich journal collection in the Library. Different subtopics were covered under the general topic of national security and human rights: homeland security, international and public security, terrorism and counterterrorism, bioterrorism, war on terror, peace and conflict resolution, border control, emigration and immigration, citizenship, ethnic conflicts and genocide, transnational crime, and asylum. Materials purchased were mainly in the English language and United States, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa (see list of titles attached). The valuable resources of this special collection can be accessed through the Library Catalog which will indicate the location within the FIU Library System How to find the information? The online library catalog is the most important source to locate the materials available within the FIU Library System (Green Library, Biscayne Bay Campus Library, and College of Law Library). For monographs, books, search the library catalog under SUBJECT For journal articles, Law related materials using, fulltext LEXIS Nexis,
The Cuban Collection Florida International University (FIU) College of Law Library acquired the library of the well known Cuban lawyer Mario Diaz Cruz, who practiced law in Havana from 1915 to 1958. When Mario Diaz Cruz, Sr. died in 1958 the collection had approximately 6,000 volumes and was transferred to Mario Diaz Cruz, Jr. who brought it to Miami in 1959. Once in Miami, the collection was acquired by the Rainforth Foundation of Coral Gables and later on, in January 2007, the collection was donated by the Rainforth Foundation to the College of Law Library. The collection represents what a good law firm library in Cuba must have contained during that era. It covers many primary and secondary Cuban legal materials such as La Jurisprudencia al Dia (the Supreme Court decisions since 1913) and Colección Legislativa, plus several primary and secondary sources from important civil law countries with significant historic ties to Cuba, mainly France, Spain, and Italy, and to a less extent materials from other European countries. There are also legal materials from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, as well as from the United States. It contains complete collections of the most important journals on private law such as Revista de Derecho Privado (Spain), Revista de Legislación y Jurisprudencia (Spain) Rivista di Diritto Privato (Italy), Revue Trimestrelle de Droit Civil (France); and foreign law, Nouvelle Revue Historique de Droit Francais et Etranger (France). From Cuba some of the titles are: Revista Cubana de Derecho, Revista del Colegio de Abogados, and Oriente Revista General de Derecho. Among the rare books, the Collection includes a 1757 edition of the Corpus Juris Civilis Justiniane; the, Coleccion de Circulares Expedidas por la Real Audiencia Pretorial de La Habana (1865-1871); and Ordenes Civiles from the United States Military Government (1900). The main emphasis of the collection is private law, covering the areas of commercial law, property, wills and trust, banks and banking, contracts, as well as Constitutional law. There also are a few treatises on the Cuban sugar industry. Additionally, the collection includes several manuscripts, most notably notebooks with handwritten annotations for every article of the civil code with references to journal articles and treatises, court decisions and related legislation, as well as handwritten commentaries on many other topics. This collection is of particular value for those historians and legal scholars focusing on Cuba, pre-Castro and post-Castro. The commentary on the Civil Code and Cuban Constitution may be of particular significance. Beyond the wealth and significance of historic Cuban legal materials, the collection is of value to legal historians who focus on Spanish, French and Latin American materials. Mario Diaz Cruz, Jr. was the editor of the journal Comparative Juridical Review, which started publication in 1964 and ceased publication, at volume thirty one, in 1994. As a result of those thirty years the library collection continued increasing the number of journal titles from Latin America. The collection is IN PROCESS, only partial access to the collection is provided.
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