It is time to consider/reconsider the future direction(s) of this interest group. Under Judge Macdonald's capable leadership, we have maintained a steady interest in the UN Decade for our membership--which has steadily grown since its inception. We currently enjoy a membership of approximately 250 members. It is our hope that more members than the dozen or so who attended the UNDIG business meeting last year in Washington will be able to attend the next business meeting of our group at the Waldorf-Astoria in April, 1995.

We may wish to now consider the following matters at next year's meeting in New York:

• What should be the central theme of our UNDIG panel presentation at the April 1995 meeting? Our annual business meeting agenda?
  
• Should the UNDIG continue to act as a clearing house for assisting young scholars? This does not necessitate an Open Forum at the Annual Meeting. If we adopted this objective, I could begin to assign out the requests of young scholars to UNDIG members with the appropriate expertise so that we all more directly share in the work and the benefits of UNDIG membership.
  
• Should we pursue an added educational goal of the UN Decade by encouraging our IG members to lecture at colleges and other interested groups about the work of the UN, and International Law generally? (I have a "canned speech" that I prepared that can serve as the basis for any other member who is interested in this particular feature of our work.)
  
• Although the ASIL does not take positions, should we as an IG of the ASIL present our own IG position paper to the appropriate UN agency regarding our perspectives about the goals of the UN Decade? How to pursue them? What should be the focus in the Twenty-First Century? Put another way, does our IG vanish into thin air on 1/1/2000?
  
• Should our IG be pursuing the additional goals? Different goals? Just what should be our agenda for the UN 50th Anniversary celebration in New York? Will we continue as an ASIL interest group with a new name? New objective(s)?

• Chair R. St. J. Macdonald edited the Martinus Nijhoff collection entitled Essays in Honour of Wang Tieya (1994). This is a virtual research dream due to its presentation of a 58-chapter analysis of International Law by leading professionals from all over the globe.
  
• Tobi Dress presented a paper on her work at the Annual Conference of the International Society of Political Psychology at Santiago, Spain. Tobi also participated in a Roundtable on Human Rights Law at the Institute of Human Rights Law in San Remo, Italy.
  
• Bryan MacPherson, an Open Forum presenter at the 1994 ASIL Annual Meeting, has published World Court Enhancements to Advance the Rule of Law (1994) by the Center for U.N. Reform Education in Livingston, NJ. This timely 78-page publication provides a number of useful suggestions regarding ways in which to encourage the increased use of the ICJ.
  
• Editor Bill Slomanson has published The Choice Between State and Federal Courts (1994) by West Publishing in St. Paul (which includes some international practice matters). He has also lectured at the two major undergraduate colleges in the San Diego region on International Law in support of the Society's Regional Outreach Network activities.
  

NOTE: Please inform the Editor about your publications, lectures, etc. We can develop a better sense of collegiality by getting to know one another and thus sharing our ideas on developing interest group activities. Now that our group has grown dramatically since the April 1994 Annual Meeting, we should be sharing something of ourselves with one another.