The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, Director of Legal Research at the Law Library of Congress. Last weekend, during my sightseeing in Pittsburgh, I took the below picture. On this day, May 31, 95 years ago, an agreement to establish a new nation called Czechoslovakia was concluded in Pittsburgh. As that country has …
The following is a guest post by Dante Figueroa, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Dante has previously written blog posts on canon law and the papacy: Canon Law Update; Citizenship in the Vatican City State; Medieval Canon Law; and The Papal Inquisition in Modena. Dante recently spent three weeks at …
April showers bring May flowers, and, if you live in Washington, DC, you know that May flowers signal the arrival of large tour buses. As we transition into summer, I am reminded that ours is a destination city. Last year, I wrote a series of posts describing the law-related art and symbols throughout the Jefferson …