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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Shrek died last month. Not green ogre Shrek – he’s still happily living in Ogre Swamp as far as I know – but Shrek the sheep. Shrek became a celebrity in New Zealand after he was found in 2004 after six years of avoiding being shorn by hiding out in a cave in the hills …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Ruth Levush
One of the greatest advantages of working at the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Center is the ability to interact with experts in foreign law from around the globe and learn from their legal experience. Having visited China ten years ago, and having appreciation for the long and impressive history of that country, I particularly …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Christine Sellers
This week’s interview is with Margaret Wood, a Legal Reference Specialist in the Public Services Division. Describe your background. I was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where my father, a solid state theoretical physicist, taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When I was five we moved to Los Alamos, New Mexico, where my dad went …
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Thanks for visiting In Custodia Legis in June! Our page views went up from May, our email subscribers surpassed 14,500, and we posted our 250th item. Christine talked about Congressional apps for a variety of mobile devices, which was our most popular post. I blogged about our latest tweaks to THOMAS. Somehow we even managed …
Posted in: Law Library, THOMAS
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Bacilio Mendez II, an intern in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. What do Madeleine Albright, Diane von Fürstenberg, Elaine Chao, and Pamela Anderson have in common? … No clue? … I’ll give you a hint, it’s the same thing that Albert Einstein, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Cary Grant, …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
If you want to know how much fun it is to be a part of the In Custodia Legis blog team, take a look at this outtake from Hanibal’s bio picture photo shoot. Hanibal enjoyed contributing guest posts so much (Nigerian Election, No Place Like Home, Interesting Topics, and Women’s Rights in Africa) that he …
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