IN CLASS EXERCISE

FOREIGN LAW

You are a staff attorney with Senator Breaux's office. Your assignment is to find information in English on line and in print and summarize it for Senator Breaux on the following topics for the country you have been assigned. Evaluate the information on each of the following:

1. Source of information 2. Credibility of information 3. Currency of information 4. Availability of information (i.e. where one can read this information. Please list as many formats as you can.)

A. The legal system.

B. The political system.

C. Sources of law. What are they? How often updated? Available only in the vernacular? Available in English? How reliable is the English translation?

D. Any trade unions or other international organizations to which the country belongs.

E.Current legal, political, economic and social issues facing the country.

F. History of U.S. relations with this country.

G. Any other information of note.

H. A newspaper in English that carries current news on this country.

I. Regulation of attorneys. How licensed. How educated. To what organization does an attorney report? What organization or agency has jurisdiction over attorney matters?

Remember to use all the sources you have learned about this semester including online catalogs, books (including looseleafs), journals, periodical and abstract indexes, the Internet, LEXIS and WESTLAW.