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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by George Sadek, a Senior Legal Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Last week George provided an overview of the drafting process and content of the Egyptian Constitution of 2012. He has also previously written posts on Egypt’s constitutional referendum and several other topics. In my last post, …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by George Sadek, a Senior Legal Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. George has previously written posts on Egypt’s constitutional referendum, elections in Saudi Arabia, and the trial of Seif al Islam al Gaddafi in Libya. The development and adoption of a new Egyptian Constitution has received a …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Svitlana Vodyanyk, a foreign law intern at the Law Library of Congress. It is part of our Global Legal Collection Highlights series, in which we publish posts every two weeks that provide information on the resources in the Law Library’s collection relating to different countries and topics. The Law …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
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. The Law Library of Congress, along with the Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division, held a panel discussion on June 4, 2013,on the role and impact of Islamic law in the developing constitutions and …
Posted in: Event, Guest Post
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The Law Library, along with the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Division, will hold a panel discussion on the role and impact of Islamic law in transitioning Arab Spring countries. The program is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 4th in the Mumford Room, which is on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building,101 Independence …
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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
A walk through the stacks of the Law Library of Congress will give you a vivid sense, if you had ever wondered, of what more than a million books looks like. Current statistics show that the Law Library houses 2.78 million physical volumes in its collection. Nearly all of these are stored in four gigantesque …
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Posted by: Ruth Levush
The Global Legal Research Center of the Law Library of Congress recently completed a major report titled Firearms- Control Legislation and Policy (February 2013). The study examines the different legal approaches taken by eighteen countries and the European Union with regard to various activities involving firearms. The countries surveyed were Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, …
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