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Law and Mrs. de Winter

Posted by: Margaret Wood

I recently read Daphne DuMaurier’s novel Rebecca.  I had started reading the novel several times before, while visiting my grandmother, but I always had to leave before getting much beyond the first two or three chapters.  It is a suspenseful book–and even knowing the basics of the story did not detract from the tension.  What did surprise …

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FALQs: Impeachment Process in Brazil

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

The following is a guest post by Eduardo Soares, a foreign law specialist covering Brazil and other Portuguese-speaking countries at the Law Library of Congress. Eduardo has previously published posts about the Brazilian law collection, capoeira and the law, a Law Library report on citizenship pathways and border protection, highlights of the Law Library’s collection …

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On The Shelf: Books in Non-Native Languages

Posted by: Betty Lupinacci

Josh Darland, an assistant project manager in the Law Library, brought me this book on Minnesota law, written in Danish and published in the United States in 1896.  He thought it would make a good post for our On the Shelf series because it was so unexpected.  And he was correct. Though it’s not as …

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FALQs: Legal Framework for Fighting Corruption in Brazil (Part II)

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

The following is a guest post by Eduardo Soares, a foreign law specialist from Brazil who covers Portuguese-speaking countries at the Law Library of Congress. Eduardo has previously published posts about the Brazilian law collection, capoeira and the law, a Law Library report on citizenship pathways and border protection, highlights of the Law Library’s collection …

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FALQs: Legal Framework for Fighting Corruption in Brazil (Part I)

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

The following is a guest post by Eduardo Soares, a foreign law specialist from Brazil who covers Portuguese-speaking countries at the Law Library of Congress. Eduardo has previously published posts about the Brazilian law collection, capoeira and the law, a Law Library report on citizenship pathways and border protection, highlights of the Law Library’s collection …

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Thingvellir – Northern Europe’s First Parliament

Posted by: Elin Hofverberg

Earlier this year the Law Library of Congress published a report on parliaments around the world.  Kelly highlighted this report in a blog post that included some amazing pictures of parliamentary buildings.  This inspired me to write about the oldest parliament in Northern Europe, which met at Thingvellir, Iceland.  I was lucky enough to visit …

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How Judges Are Selected in Germany

Posted by: Jenny Gesley

When President Obama announced the nomination of Merrick B. Garland, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to replace Justice Antonin Scalia on March 16, 2016, it garnered a lot of media attention. Thinking about my native Germany, I realized that I could not remember hearing or reading …

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A Spring Holiday for Workers

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, director of legal research at the Law Library of Congress. Peter has written a number of posts related to Russia and the former Soviet Union, including posts on the Soviet investigation of Nazi war crimes, lustration in Ukraine, Crimean history and the 2014 referendum, regulating the …

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500 Year Anniversary of the Bavarian Beer Purity Law of 1516 (“Reinheitsgebot”)

Posted by: Jenny Gesley

On April 23, 2016, breweries all over Germany and particularly in the Free State of Bavaria will celebrate the 500 year anniversary of the enactment of the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot (beer purity law); a regulation that mandates which ingredients are allowed for the brewing of beer. The Reinheitsgebot is one of the oldest food regulations in …