Biography Marylin Johnson Raisch Associate Law Librarian International and Foreign Law at the John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library of the Georgetown Law Center Marylin Johnson Raisch is Associate Law Librarian for International and Foreign Law at the John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library of the Georgetown Law Center. She received her J.D. from Tulane University School of Law (1980) with work both in civil and common law courses as well as international law and Roman law. She holds degrees in English literature from Smith College (B.A. magna cum laude, 1973) and St. Hugh's College, Oxford (M.Litt., 1978). She received her M.L.S. degree from Columbia University School of Library Service in 1988 and has worked as a law librarian for fifteen years, ten of which were at Columbia University School of Law as International and Foreign Law Librarian. Marylin has served as moderator or panelist in several continuing education programs at the annual meetings of the American Association of Law Libraries on such topics as selection and reference in international and foreign law, foreign law in English, and Russian law, and a 2005 workshop on European Union law. She has also presented talks on web access to foreign and international materials for the International Association of Law Libraries, has co-directed one of a series of special four-day institutes on "Training the Next Generation" of international and foreign law librarians, and has edited (with Roberta I. Shaffer) the resulting volume of proceedings, Transnational Legal Transactions (Oceana, 1995). Marylin is the author of several articles, reviews, and web guides on international and foreign legal research, such as “The European Union: A Selective Research Guide,” 1 Columbia Journal of European Law 149 (1994/95), and hyperlinked web guides published from 2001 through 2007 on international family law, European Union law, and religious law.
