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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
This week’s Pic of the Week post gives you a glimpse of, well, something that defies all expectations… The image above depicts an engraving of a person (arms only) shaking a sieve full of the dismembered heads of several species, including human beings, so that all of the animal heads fall out and only the …
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Posted by: Jeanine Cali
On Tuesday, August 20, the Law Library of Congress and the Federal Bar Association (FBA) Criminal Law Section co-hosted a program called “The Criminal Justice Act at 50 – The Past, Present, and Future of the Right to Counsel in the Federal Courts.” The event marked the beginning of a year-long commemoration of the 50th …
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Posted by: Kurt Carroll
The following interview is with Michael Promisel, a summer intern working in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. It is part of a series of interviews that introduce our summer interns to In Custodia Legis readers. Describe your background Although I cannot proclaim a direct line of descent, my background can …
Posted in: Collections, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
This week’s interview is with Charles Owen Verill Jr., Past President of the Friends of the Law Library and Partner at Wiley Rein LLP. Mr. Verill recalls his experience at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963. The Library of Congress exhibition, “A Day Like No Other: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the March …
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Posted by: Ruth Levush
The following is a guest post by Chayada Polpun, a summer intern working in the Global Legal Research Center (GLRC), Law Library of Congress. I interviewed Chayada recently. You can learn about Chayada’s background and her work at GLRC by reading her interview which was published in In Custodia Legis on August 22, 2013. It is my pleasure to share my experience …
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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Magna Carta, the Charter of Liberties sealed by King John of England in 1215 AD, is routinely cited as one of the most important documents of our constitutional tradition. It ranks with the English Bill of Rights (1689), The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution in symbolic power. And while the details of …
Posted in: Education, In the News, Law Library, Research Guide
Posted by: Donna Sokol
Matthew Braun and Barbara Bavis represented the Law Library of Congress at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco earlier this month. Matthew and Barbara presented “How to Conduct Free Legal Research Online” – a wildly successful course that counted for Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits. The conference’s expo featured a booth where the …
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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This installment of my Global Legal Monitor (GLM) Highlights post combines June and July GLM articles. The articles published in the two months addressed a wide range of legal subjects: Banks and financial institutions; Communications and electronic information; Criminal law and procedure; Education; Immigration; Labor; and Nationality and citizenship. Below is a list of the top …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Laney Zhang
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. — Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854). In 2011, I wrote a guest post on the topic of trains and corruption when China‘s then Minister of Railways, Mr. Liu Zhijun, was removed from office for taking bribes relating to rail construction projects, in particular the …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News