AALL Announces Recipients of Marian Gould Gallagher and Joseph L. Andrews Awards

From the announcements:

The 2008 Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award will honor the outstanding career of Robert (Bob) L. Oakley. His service to AALL and the profession is well known. Besides chairing numerous committees, Oakley served on the Executive Board and was elected as AALL president in 2000-2001. He was instrumental in establishing AALL’s government relations program. For 18 years Oakley served as Washington affairs representative, AALL’s advocate on Capitol Hill.

AALL presents the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award to Edward Grosek for his work, The Secret Treaties of History. As the title states, the book indexes treaties that nations entered into secretly. Some treaties trace back as early as 499 A.D. The result of the longtime effort of Grosek, this work includes 110 nations involved in secret treaties. The book annotates 973 secret treaties and includes an annotated bibliography, as well as an important country index. It is a unique resource that researchers in a variety of disciplines—from history to law to political science—can use. Grosek is currently associate professor at Northern Illinois University and is in charge of the United Nations collection at the Founders Memorial Library. He has published a number of articles on government information.

Congratulations! And congratulations also to the recipients of this year's AALL Research Grants

The AALL Research Committee selected the following grants for funding in 2008 by the AALL Research Fund: An Endowment Established by LexisNexis:

Jill Duffy, research librarian at the U.S. Supreme Court Library, and Elizabeth Lambert, pro se staff attorney at the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, are awarded $2,383 for their project, "Dissents from the Bench: A Compilation of Oral Dissents Issued by the U.S. Supreme Court Justices."

Karen E. Kalnins, reference librarian at Oklahoma City University Law Library, is awarded $700 for her project, "Oral Histories of Oklahoma Judges and Attorneys."

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