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Posted by: Andrew Weber
We occasionally highlight content on our blog that is viewed the most. There are retrospective blog posts with the top viewed posts each month, top weekly articles in the Global Legal Monitor (including what’s hot this year), the top weekly bills in THOMAS, and information about how to get top bill alerts by RSS and …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Christine Sellers
This week’s interview is with Isabella Marques de Castilla, who is at the Law Library of Congress as a Fellow in the Library of Congress Leadership Development Program. Describe your background. I am a product of different customs and cultures. I have resided in various countries including Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Nicole Atwill, Senior Foreign Law Specialist. My husband was recently lamenting the loss of the second of his original law partners to a judicial appointment, this time to the Supreme Court of Virginia. When I mentioned that such a scenario would be extremely rare in France, the conversation …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Nicole Atwill, Senior Foreign Law Specialist. The Black Code tells us a very long story that started in Versailles, at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, in March 1685 and ended in Paris in April 1848 under Arago, at the beginning of the ephemeral Second Republic. …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Andrew Weber
December was another enjoyable month for In Custodia Legis. We introduced two new guest bloggers, Nicole and Steve. Nicole posted a couple of times: first on Social Networks and French Labor Law and, in response to a comment on the blog, on The Role of the “Doctrine” as a Source of Law in France. Steve …
Posted in: Law Library