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Recognitions

In 2020, the FCIL-SIS introduced three new recognitions to honor and celebrate our members and their contributions.

The Newsletter Article of the Year

This recognition honors an FCIL-SIS member who contributes an outstanding article to the FCIL-SIS Newsletter during the previous year.

Year Recipients
2025 Janet Kearney, Janet’s Good but Not Well Organized or Methodical Bibliography, FCIL-SIS Newsletter, Vol. 39, No. 2, at 21-23 and for her work coordinating the February 2025 Mardi Gras-themed issue more broadly.
2024 Susan Gualtier, Decolonizing a Human Rights Research Course: First Steps, FCIL-SIS Newsletter, Vol. 38, No. 2, at 8 (February 2024).
2023 Erin Gow, Resource Reviews: Legislation.gov.uk, FCIL Newsletter, Vol. 37, No. 2 (February 2023)
2022 Janet Kearney, Work-in-Progress: A Research Framework in FCIL Teaching?, FCIL Newsletter, Vol. 36, Issue 2 (February 2022)
2021 Caitlin Hunter, Helping Foreign Students Thrive in U.S. Law Schools, FCIL Newsletter, Vol. 34, Issue 2 (February 2020)
2020 Julienne E. Grant, An Introduction to the Muscogee (Creek) Nation’s Legal Heritage & Carpenter v. Murphy, FCIL Newsletter, Vol. 33, Issue 3 (May 2019)

THE BLOG POST OF THE YEAR

This recognition honors an ³ÉÈËÊÓÆµmember who contributes an outstanding blog post to the during the previous year.

Year Recipients
2025 Sarah Martin, (June 5, 2024)
2024 Juan-Andrés Fuentes, (August 2023-)
2023 Marcelo Rodríguez, (February 2022 – February 2023)
2022 Jonathan Pratter, (March 2022 – June 16, 2022)
2021 Amy Flick, (2019-)
2020 Alison Shea, (February 27, 2019)

COMMITTEE/INTEREST GROUP PROJECT OF THE YEAR

This recognition honors the FCIL-SIS committee or Interest Group that produces an outstanding project for the benefit of the FCIL-SIS and /or ³ÉÈËÊÓÆµmembers during the previous year.

Year Recipients
2025 The FCIL-SIS Newsletter Committee for their February 2025 Mardi Gras themed issue
2024 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians – Selection Committee for navigating the extremely challenging visa and travel situation during COVID to continue to welcome foreign law librarians and enable FCIL-SIS members to learn about law librarianship around the world.
2023 FCIL-SIS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee for the What in the World Webinar Series (February 2023 – March 2023)
2022 FCIL-SIS Customary and Religious Law Interest Group (CARLIG) webinar titled Canon Law 101 and Get Refusal & Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community.
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2020 FCIL-SIS Latin American Law IG for its collaboration with the Latino Caucus to .