A Tribunal of International Character On 14 February 2005, a car bomb detonated in the heart of Beirut. Its target was the former prime minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri, who had remained a highly influential figure in his nation.
In conversation with Project Manager Cathy Aster and Editor-in-Chief Friederike Sundaram about the launch on July 31 of the new Stanford Libraries’ website. Courtesy of Cathy Aster Question: Why was Project Monarch chosen as the name for the design and implementation of the new Stanford Libraries’ website? What was its basic timeline? The Project Monarch name was selected in 2021 to reflect an initial understanding that the new website would be a migration project.
Stanford Libraries have been core to intellectual life on campus since the opening of the university. As instruction shifts online for Spring Quarter, library staff are actively working to continue their support of and partenrship with faculty and students.
When the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) closed down at the end of 2023, historians and practitioners of international law were left to wonder: Who will preserve its legacy? Just seven months later, an interdisciplinary team from Stanford University is gearing up to provide an answer. On 17 July 2024, the Day of International Criminal Justice , Stanford’s Virtual Tribunals initiative is debuting the first edition of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon collection , consisting of the 64 files judged most vital to safeguarding the memory and legal precedent of this unique international tribunal, as well as an archived version of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon website (captured on December 7, 2023, thanks to the quick response by Stanford Libraries’ web archiving team).
In January 2024, I started work as a Digital Archivist on a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to process the born-digital archive of the 20th-century American poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005) known for his affiliation with Black Mountain College, and for “a style defined by an intense concentration on the sounds and rhythms of language as well as the placement of the words on the page.