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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Cloning, genetic modification, stem cell research, IVF. I’m sure that you have seen or heard these terms before in the media, which frequently reports on new treatments for various diseases and conditions, women having babies through surrogates (or multiple babies as a result of fertility treatments), and changes to how our food is produced. You …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
How many times have you been stumbling through the dicey Latin of a fifteenth century legal treatise only to stop and wonder what sort of person was behind that pretentious turn of phrase that you just couldn’t interpret? Well, now you can catch a glimpse of the greatest legal authors of the Middle Ages and Renaissance for …
Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Kurt Carroll
This week’s interview is with Joan Weeks, who is working at the Law Library of Congress as a Fellow in the Library of Congress Leadership Development Program. Describe your background I guess I am a rare native of the Washington area since I was born in Alexandria, Virginia, grew up in Falls Church and graduated …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Rohit Gupta, a Systems Architect within the Office of Strategic Initiatives (OSI) Web Services. Rohit joins Meg, Rich, and Barry in our series of Congress.gov interviews designed to highlight the people who have contributed to the new system. Describe your background. I grew up in Bombay, India and moved to the …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Constance A. Johnson, a Legal Research Analyst at the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Center. Connie has previously blogged about Water Rights at Star Island, Human Rights Day, and our Guide on Legal Translation. On a recent short vacation to London with my husband, I was lucky on the weather and was able to …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The Global Legal Monitor (GLM) is a Law Library of Congress publication providing summaries on new legal developments around the world. It is updated frequently and can be searched by author, topic and jurisdiction. Here is a list of the top ten most viewed GLM articles in September, including ones published about two years ago that remain popular …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Tina Gheen
This is a guest post by Judy Graves, Digital Projects Coordinator, Digital Reference Section and instructor, Introducing loc.gov, the monthly webinar series and Pamela Barnes Craig, Instruction/Reference Librarian. “Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. . . .” Thomas Jefferson to Richard Price, Jan. 8, 1789 Believing wholeheartedly that …
Posted in: Congress, Event, Guest Post
Posted by: Kurt Carroll
Last week my colleague Tariq and I traveled to Toronto for the International Association of Law Libraries’ (IALL) 31st annual course on international law and legal information. Living up to its name, attendance at the conference was made up of law librarians from six continents representing twenty countries. As is the custom, the theme of …
Posted in: Global Law, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The three weeks since we introduced Congress.gov have flown by. In my initial post on the new system, I mentioned that we will continue to enhance Congress.gov. The first set of enhancements has gone live. Jeanine has updated the About Congress.gov page to include: October 2012 Minor updates were made to the system that included: a …
Posted in: Congress