Socialist Law and its Legal Literature

Extract

In August 1977 approximately 70 members of the International Association of Law Libraries representing 16 different countries gathered at Budapest, Hungary to attend the 6th IALL Seminar. The topic for this seminar dealt with “Socialist Law and its Legal Literature”, with papers presented by representatives of the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, Poland, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. The Seminar was hosted by the Hungarian Library of the Parliament and its Director, Dr. Gabor Valyi, as well as his colleagues. At the seminar I was designated as its reporter by the IALL and assigned the task of presenting the substance of the course content to the rest of the IALL membership. For reasons of economy and space, it is not possible to reproduce each article verbatim as it was written and delivered. It is hoped that the edited or abstracted versions as they are set forth below are successful in reciting the salient features and substance of each paper. For those who are interested in obtaining the full text of the papers, it is expected that these will be commercially available.