Rubens
Medina has been Law Librarian, Library of Congress, since 1994. He holds
a law degree from the National University of Ascunción, Paraguay, and
a Ph.D. in Law and Sociology from the University of Wisconsin. He has
practiced and taught law in Paraguay and Chile, conducted research on
land tenure and water rights in Latin America, and supervised research
and publication on Latin American law in the Law Library, Library of Congress
from 1971-1994. A specialist on the automated indexing and retrieval of
primary-source legal information, he is Project Director of the Global
Legal Information Network (GLIN), a multinational cooperative legal information
system currently centered in the Law Library, Library of Congress.
