Acquisitions

The papers of Professor Hungdah Chiu have been made available by the Thurgood Marshall Law Library of the University of Maryland School of Law. Chiu, professor emeritus of law at the University of Maryland School of Law, has also taught at National Taiwan University and at National Chengchi University in the Republic of China and served as a research associate at Harvard Law School for six years. He has written, edited, and is coauthor of many books in English and in Chinese and more than 130 articles in the field of international and comparative law and Chinese studies, including The Future of Hong Kong (with Y. C. Jao and Y. L. Wu, 1987) and The Draft Basic Law of Hong Kong: Analysis and Documents (1988), International Law of the Sea: Cases, Documents and Readings (with Gary Knight, 1991), and Modern International Law (in Chinese, 1995, two volumes). Chiu has served as president of the Association of Chinese Social Scientists in North America (1984 through 1986), president of the American Association for Chinese Studies (1985 through 1987) and Minister without portfolio (Minister of State) of the Executive Yuan (cabinet) of the Republic of China (1993 through 1994). He is past president of the International Law Association. The collection consists of four boxes and multiple binders arranged in two series. Visit www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/specialcollections/chiupapers/ for more information.

The writings of Margaret Anna Cusack (1829–99) are now in a special collection permanently housed at the Daniel A. Cannon Memorial Library at Saint Leo University. Cusack was a convert to Catholicism who became a nun, as well as a 19th-century social activist and prolific author. Writings by and about Cusack were donated to the library by Sisters Janet Davis Richardson and Rosalie McQuaide, both members of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, an order originally established by Cusack in the 1880s. In Ireland, Cusack was known as Sister Francis Clare. She wrote devotional materials for many years and a history of the country. She also worked on behalf of famine relief in Ireland, and advocated for the poor and the undereducated, becoming an advocate of peace and justice initiatives. She later came to the United States to work with young Irish women who emigrated to escape poverty. More than once, however, Cusack had difficult relationships with authorities in her adopted church. Ultimately, she left the religious life and returned to England, where she had been raised in the Anglican Church.