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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Barry Priest, Web DevAdmin. This is the third in the new series of interviews that focus on Library of Congress staff who contributed to Congress.gov. Describe your background. My degree is in Theater Design and Technology from Purdue University. That program allowed me the flexibility to pursue interests in CAD/3D rendering, computer science …
Posted by: Ruth Levush
The application of international law of armed conflict to cyber-warfare has been under intense discussion recently following the release of Stuxnet, a highly sophisticated computer worm and related malware which was reportedly developed by two technologically advanced countries. The Stuxnet release allegedly ruined centrifuges at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility. According to Reuters, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards had announced that that country was prepared …
Posted in: Global Law
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: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Eduardo Soares, a Senior Foreign Law Specialist in the Global Legal Research Center of the Law Library of Congress. Eduardo is a Brazilian attorney and provides research services relating to the laws of Portuguese-speaking jurisdictions. Portuguese explorers first made landfall in Brazil on April 22, 1500. After the discovery, the …
Posted in: Collections, Education, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
After Tariq and Clare posted earlier this week on Sedition Law in England and India, I found myself thinking about revolutions. Naturally the first thing that occurred to me was that today is the anniversary of one of the great events of the French Revolution, the March on Versailles. You can see a contemporary account …
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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
In celebration of Constitution Day (September 17), the Law Library welcomed Dahlia Lithwick of Slate Magazine who presented a lecture titled “Supreme Court Review: Election Year Issues and Highlights of the Last Term.” The event was held on Monday, September 24 in the Mumford Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building. Lithwick’s …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Rich Larson, an Information Technology Specialist within Information Technology Services (ITS). This is the second in the new series of interviews that focus on Library of Congress staff who contributed to Congress.gov. The first interview was with Meg. Describe your background. I am from Takoma Park, MD. I went to Macalester College in St. …
Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
Abolishing ancient laws in England is often no easy task. A significant degree of research is involved before these laws are amended or abolished. The research has to be particularly thorough to avoid one of the oldest – that of unintended consequences. The issue of thoroughly researching laws was demonstrated several years ago when the government was …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Tariq Ahmad, a Legal Analyst in the Global Legal Research Center of the Law Library of Congress. British colonial era laws continue to have relevancy in the legal systems of India and Pakistan. Ironically, a sedition law used by the British colonial government to suppress nationalist dissent in the …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post