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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This interview is with Nana Ghvaladze, a parliamentary staffer from the Republic of Georgia who spent four weeks in October and November at the Law Library of Congress as a participant of the Legislative Fellows Program supported by the U.S. Department of State and administered by the American Councils for International Education, . Describe your …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This week’s interview is with Virab Khachatryan, a Foreign Law Specialist in our Global Legal Research Center covering select jurisdictions in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Describe your background I was born to a blue-collar family in Yerevan, Armenia, a small, friendly country, located in Eastern Europe. As a child, my parents taught me to …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
As a member of the Global Legal Research Center at the Law Library of Congress I cover a number of African countries, and get my share of inquiries on a range of legal issues. So I thought it would be fun, and hopefully useful, to highlight some electronic sources that I often find valuable when …
Posted in: Ask A Librarian, Global Law, Research Guide
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The following is a guest post by Shameema Rahman, Legal Reference Specialist in our Public Services Division. Her most recent post was: Using Secondary Legal Resources to Locate Primary Sources. As a Law Library of Congress reference librarian I am often asked this question by our patrons. THOMAS and the Government Printing Office’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) website are great sources …
Posted in: Ask A Librarian, Collections, Law Library, THOMAS
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
As part of my daily duties as a member of the Global Legal Research Center (GLRC) at the Law Library of Congress, I often rely on the collections and expertise of the Africa and Middle Eastern Division (AMED) of the Library of Congress. Created in 1978, AMED has three sections (African, Hebraic, and Near East) …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This is an interview with Rong Xiang, currently an intern in the Global Legal Research Center of the Law Library of Congress. I hope you enjoy her interview as much as I did. Describe your background. I was born and raised by a loving family in Shenyang, the largest city in northeast China and famous …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
As part of my daily duties on the Global Legal Research team at the Law Library of Congress, I recently had to look into the issue of gender-based violence in Kenya and South Africa. In the course of this exercise, I noticed that despite various law reform initiatives to strengthen laws designed to prevent certain …
Posted in: Global Law