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Archive: May 2014 (20 Posts)

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Fingerprint Evidence Leads to Murder Conviction and Execution (in 1920 New Zealand)

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

These days when we think about forensic evidence our minds turn to shows such as the “CSI” franchise.  We think of DNA.  Bullet striations.  Hair and fiber analysis.  And fingerprints.  Of all these things, fingerprint matching has perhaps the longest history and remains one of the most used tools for identifying criminals.  I was therefore …

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A Reopened Washington Monument – Pics of the Week

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Living in Washington, D.C., it can be easy to take for granted the monuments that people come across the nation and around the globe to visit.  Recently, the reopening of the Washington Monument has been big news here in D.C.  It had been closed for repairs since the earthquake in August 2011 (there was another small …

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An Interview with Daria Pistriak, Legislative Fellow

Posted by: Hanibal Goitom

Today’s interview is with Daria Pistriak, a staffer at Ukraine‘s Office of the Ombudsman, currently interning at the Law Library of Congress as part of her participation in the Legislative Fellows Program, a U.S. Department of State-funded program designed to expose promising young professionals from selected European countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Turkey and Ukraine) to …

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Laws of Tanzania – Global Legal Collection Highlights

Posted by: Hanibal Goitom

On April 26, 2014, Tanzania celebrated 50 years of the Tanganyika and Zanzibar union.  A former German (1880s-1918) and British (1919-1961) colony, Tanganyika (now commonly referred to as mainland Tanzania) became independent on December 9, 1961.  Zanzibar, which also saw successive colonial rulers (p. 15), including under Portugal, the Busaidy Dynasty and Britain, gained its …

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Searching for Current Japanese Laws and Regulations

Posted by: Andrew Weber

The following is a guest post by Noriko Ohtaki, a research fellow at the Law Library of Congress.   This is a quick guide to searching online for current Japanese laws and regulations. In Japan, laws and regulations (cabinet orders, ministerial ordinances, and rules made by government agencies) are promulgated in the Official Gazette. You can find …