Name: ____Marissa Meyer______________________________

Session 1 In-Class Exercises

FCIL-ALR

ROADMAP FOR CLASS

Introductions
Discussion of Syllabus
Diagnostic Exercise
Basic Research Terms
Basic FCIL Terms
Exercises

DIAGNOSTIC EXERCISE
Take 15 minutes and search the web for the following two foreign law items. Please keep a
record of the steps you take to reach your results:

1. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (“North Korea”): In English, the criminal

statute(s) which the late US student Otto Warmbier was charged with violating.
a. https://www.hrnk.org/uploads/pdfs/The%20Criminal%20Law%20of%20the%20
Democratic%20Republic%20of%20Korea_2009_%20(1).pdf

2. Federal Republic of Germany (“Germany”): German Network Enforcement Law

a. https://germanlawarchive.iuscomp.org/?p=1245

FINDING FOREIGN LAW IN ENGLISH

Search the web for the following items. Please keep a record of the steps you take to reach your
results:

1. French Law in English: Find a website with good access to French law in English.
Please give the name of the website and the link to the homepage.
a. https://www.legislationline.org/documents/section/criminal-
codes/country/30/France/show
b. Legislationline.org

2. Mexican Law in English: Find a website with good access to Mexican law in English.
Please give the name of the website and the link to the homepage.
a. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.cow/zzmx0021&i=70
b. Heinonline.org

3. German Law in English: Find a website with good access to German law in English.
Please give the name of the website and the link to the homepage.

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a. HTTPS://EC.EUROPA.EU/ANTI-
TRAFFICKING/SITES/ANTITRAFFICKING/FILES/CRIMINAL_CODE_GERMANY_EN_1.PD
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FINDING CONSTITUTIONS IN ENGLISH

Search the web for the following items. Please keep a record of the steps you take to reach your
results. Please tell us how you determined to pick the 3 resources you found:

1. Current German Constitution: Find 3 good electronic resources for the current German
Constitution. Please give the names of the electronic sources and the links to their
homepages.
a. https://www.btg-bestellservice.de/pdf/80201000.pdf
b. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Law_for_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany
c.

In addition, in Google Books, please find a treatise on the German Constitution published
in 2000 or later. Please give the title of the treatise.
https://books.google.com/books?id=PMUvQwAACAAJ&dq=German+constitution&hl=
en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiu8MDEzKbkAhUNWa0KHdIBAqgQ6AEwAXoECAAQAg

FOG EXERCISE

1. Please give us the title(s) of Canada’s current FOG. Does it contain primary and
secondary legislation?
a. http://gazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/publications-eng.html
b.

2. Please give us the title of India’s current FOG. Does it contain primary and secondary
legislation?
a. https://www.india.gov.in/my-government/documents/gazetteer-notification
b.

INTERNATIONAL LAW EXERCISE

1. Find the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties on the web:

a. Please tell us your search strategy
i. Went to the United Nations webpage then searched Vienna Convention on
the Law of Treaties.

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b. Please tell us how you determined which treaty resource to pick

i. It was the only one that came up

c. In Google Books, find a treatise on the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
published in 2000 or later

d. See if there is an entry on the Vienna Convention in the Max Planck Encyclopedia
of Public International Law (which you should search via the Law Library’s
Electronic Resources Page)

MULTITASKING QUESTIONS

1. What is the difference between “task switching” and “parallel processing?”

a. In parallel processing, a person does two or more things simultaneously, but only
one of the tasks requires a high degree of cognition and attention.
b. Task switching – switching between tasks but focus all of your attention on it

2. What is meant by the term “response selection bottleneck?”

a. It is the time that is lost every time you make a decision about which task to focus
on

3. What was Sir Isaac Newton’s prescient take on multitasking?

a. Attributed his genius “to patient attention more than any other skill”

QUESTIONS ON THE CORRUPTION OF LEGAL RESEARCH

1. Describe the difference between the “research mode” and the “intuitive mode” of writing
a legal brief:
a. Research mode is when you research first and write after.
b. Intuitive mode is when you conceptualize your brief and then after you outline it
you go and find cases that support what you wrote.

2. According to Scott Stolley’s article, there are several things at which computer research
is weak. Please name two of them:
a. Computer is ill-suited for finding concepts
b. Computers can't think in analogies