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War, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity - Legal Research Strategies and Tips

This guide is prepared for a law seminar class at Washington University School of Law

About the Author

 Tove Klovning is the law school's Foreign/Comparative and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law. She oversees foreign, comparative, and international law services at the law library and teaches legal research methodologies. She often guest lecturers on legal research methodology strategies in seminar classes and assists researchers with legal research questions relating to foreign law, comparative law, and international law, as well as questions related to the American legal system. She has written several research guides on American, international, and foreign legal issues. Klovning has taught in the Global Legal Studies Master Program at the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal, and has been a speaker at both U.S. and international conferences. Before joining the law school, Klovning worked at the Albert Jenner, Jr. Law Library of the University of Illinois, assisted as a Visiting Research Scholar in the Ombudsman Office at Southern Illinois University, Illinois, was a law clerk intern for the Bergen Circuit Court in Norway, and a legal caseworker in Bergen, Norway. Klovning  has resided in various countries across Asia and is multilingual. She is an associate member of the American Bar Association.

Phone: (314) 935-6443
Email: tklovni@wustl.edu

Courses: 

Legal Research Methodology I & II

Legal Research Demystified 

 

© 2013 to current date. All Rights Reserved. Excerpts and links may be shared provided that full and clear credit is given to the author together with a link to the original guide. External links are being provided as a convenience purposes only. This guide is in part adapted from a guide that I wrote on this topic in 2013. That guide is now archived.