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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Donna Sokol, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. Donna will be your virtual docent for a series of posts related to themes of law in the art and architecture of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building. In the first installment of this series, she focused on …
Posted in: Education, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Cynthia Jordan, Senior Writer-Editor at the Law Library of Congress. As the program manager for the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation Program on Demography, Technology, and Criminal Justice at the Library of Congress, I am pleased to welcome Orin S. Kerr as the Scholar-in-Residence for the program. As Scholar-in-Residence, …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Audrey works in the Office of Communications of the Library of Congress as a Public Affairs Specialist. She has previously blogged about our Law Day event for the Library of Congress blog. Audrey also helps craft Law Library of Congress press releases including one on the same Law Day event and on David‘s appointment as the Law Librarian of Congress. Describe your background. I was born …
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Andrew Weber
States and Cinco de Mayo were popular choices this month when linking to In Custodia Legis and also popular with our readers. Samford University Library’s Government Documents blog liked Nathan’s post about the states we almost had. The Lincoln Law School of San Jose Blog noted Meg’s States in the Senate post. The Law Librarian Blog thought Nathan’s …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
This week we are releasing an updated look for the Law Library’s website. From time to time, the Library changes its website design and features to make it more user-friendly and better functioning. This release is more of a refreshment of the site as well as an update to its search function. We welcome you …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The top ten Global Legal Monitor (GLM) articles for May covered a wide array of interesting legal issues: War Crimes; Treatment of Animals; Immigration and Citizenship; Criminal Law and Procedure; Communications and electronic information; Labor; and Elections. Below are the articles in the order of their popularity: Liberia: Human Rights South Korea: Permanent Dual Nationality …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
I had a lot of fun looking back at pictures of libraries on the blog recently. Our Pic of the Week series has had a lot of great shots. There have been over 75 of these posts since we started the series. We frequently post pictures of the Law Library of Congress Reading Room because …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Donna Sokol, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. Donna will be your virtual docent for a series of posts related to themes of law in the art and architecture of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building. In this first installment, Donna provides information about some artwork …
Posted in: Education, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Megan Lulofs Kuhagen, a Legal Information Analyst in the Public Services Division. Previously, Meg has posted on a variety of topics including States in the Senate, House Committee Hearings Video, the Cardiff Giant, the Canadian Library of Parliament, football blackouts, and Ask a Librarian services. I recently posted pictures from my trip to the Republic of San Marino, a …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post