The Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores Publication Award, also known as the “Reynolds & Flores Publication Award”, is an FCIL-SIS honor to be awarded at the 糖心视频 Annual Meeting. The Award is named after the indomitable Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores, the authors of the , better known as 鈥淩eynolds & Flores鈥 to the many grateful FCIL Librarians who habitually use the Foreign Law Guide.
The Reynolds & Flores Award will be given to an FCIL-SIS member or members who have greatly contributed to the professional development of their 糖心视频 colleagues during any given year.聽 The winning 鈥減ublications鈥 may be print, digital, or electronic initiatives.聽 Thus, journal articles, treatises, symposia papers, digitization projects, websites, databases, and ebooks are all eligible for consideration.聽 The type of publication format is flexible; the decisive factor for bestowing the Award will be the degree to which the publication enhances the professional knowledge and capabilities of law librarians.
Foreign, Comparative, and International Law is fraught with challenges, many of which are consistently and ably fielded by Reynolds & Flores鈥 monumental Foreign Law Guide.聽 The Reynolds & Flores Award will encourage FCIL Librarians to continue the great work of Tom Reynolds and Arturo Flores.
Procedure
Individuals may nominate themselves or others by emailing the name of the nominee to the FCIL-SIS Executive Committee. Nominees must be a member of the Section, active or retired. Nominations may be submitted by any Section member. Current Executive Committee members are ineligible for nomination. The award will be presented periodically at the discretion of the Executive Committee. There is no requirement that the award be given at any particular interval.
All nominations must include:
- A letter of nomination, including the candidate鈥檚 full name, title, and institution name and address. (If the candidate is retired, include name, home address, and most recent former employer);
- A narrative supporting the nomination, including a discussion of the candidate鈥檚 contributions to the Section;
- A curriculum vita of the candidate; and
- The name, email address and phone number of the nominating party.
Deadline
All nominations must be received by March 15 of the year in which the award may be
made. If an award is given, it will be presented at the FCIL-SIS Business Meeting.
Past Recipients
| Year | Recipients |
| 2025 | Yemisi Dina & Yasmin Morais, (Carolina Academic Press, 2024)
Alison Shea & Jennifer Alison, , in Handbook For European Studies Librarians (University of Minnesota Libraries, 2024). |
| 2024 | Loren Turner, Passion Projects in Law Librarianship: A Belated Tribute to Igor Kavass and His Personal Mission to Acquire & Organize U.S. International Agreements, 114 Law Library Journal 431-454 (2022) |
| 2023 | Jennifer Allison, Source Citation in Legal Bibliography and Its Impact on Research: A Comparative Examination of Criminal Sentencing Discretion Law and Practice in California and Germany, in The Role of Citation in the Law: A Yale Law School Symposium (Michael G. Chiorazzi ed., 2022).聽A pre-publication final draft version is available at . |
| 2022 | and , (Carolina Academic Press, 2022) |
| 2021 | Lyonette Louis-Jacques for her decade-long contributions to the , which was compiled into an open access . |
| 2020 | Thomas Mills for his almost 13-year tenure as the book review editor of the book review column of the International Journal of Legal Information. |
| 2019 | , (Oxford University Press, 2018).
, (Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2017). and, (eds. Gayle Ann Williams and Jana Lee Krentz, McFarland, 2019). |
| 2018 | Sherry Leysen and, (Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2017).
and , (Carolina Academic Press, 2018). |
| 2017 | , “,” 35 Legal Research Services Quarterly 18-76 (2016). |
| 2016 | , 108 Law Library Journal 55 (2016). |
| 2015 | for her editorial work of spanning more than a decade.
(editors), (Brill, 2d ed. 2014). |
| 2014 | Wei Luo, (William S. Hein & Co., 2010).
Marci Hoffman and Mary Rumsey, (Brill, 2d ed. 2012). |
| 2013 | Teresa Miguel-Stearns and Alison Shea for the work on the FCIL-SIS Website. |

