Lyonette Louis-Jacques
Foreign and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-9612
email: llou@midway.uchicago.edu

Immediately following her graduation from the Law School in 1986, Lyonette Louis-Jacques began work at the University of Minnesota Law Library, where she taught courses on American as well as foreign and international legal research until 1992, when she returned to the University of Chicago to begin her current position. Ms. Louis-Jacques is co-founder (with Mila Rush) of INT-LAW on listserv@ciesin.columbia.edu, an electronic conference for the discussion of issues related to foreign, comparative, and international legal (FCIL) resources. She is also the author of "Gaps in International Legal Literature," in the Chicago Journal of International Law, the author of Law Lists, a guide to law-related electronic mailing lists and Usenet newsgroups, and "Lists, Newsgroups, Networks," a chapter of the ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law, the "International Calendar" column of the International Journal of Legal Information, and co-editor (with Jeanne Korman) of Introduction to International Organizations (Oceana, 1996). Ms. Louis Jacques is a member of the Committee on Electronic Technologies (CET) of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the Advisory Committee on Communications of the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL).

Her current research interests include use of the Internet by law faculty, students, and librarians worldwide, and techniques for teaching FCIL research. She has written articles and lectured on researching human rights law, international trade law, sources on careers in international law, finding legal resources on the Internet, and the virtual law library.

Ms. Louis-Jacques is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries (including service as chair of the AALL Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Section, 1994–1995, chair of the Computing Services Special Interest Section, 1999–2000, chair of the Advisory Committee on the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, 2003–2004, and a member of the AALL Executive Board, 2005–2008, [term ends in July 2008]), the International Association of Law Libraries, the American Society of International Law, and several other national and international law and library associations. She is a member of the Illinois Bar and on the Board of the University of Chicago Human Rights Program and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center. 

Education: B.A., 1979, University of Chicago; A.M.L.S., 1983, University of Michigan; J.D., 1986, University of Chicago.

Education: B.A., 1979, University of Chicago; A.M.L.S., 1983, University of Michigan; J.D., 1986, University of Chicago.