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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The foreign law specialists and legal analysts at the Law Library of Congress have had another busy year writing reports and other responses to requests from a wide range of patrons. Some of these were detailed multinational studies, such as our reports on police weapons in select countries and on the regulation of genetically modified …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The Global Legal Monitor (GLM) had a great 2014. One of the Law Library of Congress premier online sources, the GLM published 431 articles in 2014 covering legal developments around the world, particularly parliamentary acts and court decisions on a variety of issues. When writing for the Global Legal Monitor, we try to focus on issues that we believe will interest …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Barbara Bavis
This post is coauthored by Barbara Bavis and Robert Brammer, legal reference specialists. Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution states that the President “shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur… ” An early attempt by the …
Posted in: Education, Law Library, Research Guide
Posted by: Margaret Wood
I love history and recently I have been researching congressional apportionment. But what you ask, is apportionment? According to Merriam Webster’s online dictionary, one of the definitions is to “divide and share out according to a plan.” I can see how this might apply to pizza and pie but what does this have to …
Posted in: Congress, Law Library
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Emm Barnes Johnstone, historian of medicine with the Centre for Public History, Heritage and Engagement with the Past at Royal Holloway, University of London. Royal Holloway, a college of the University of London, sits just two miles from Runnymede. We are home to some of the world’s experts …
Posted in: Event, Guest Post
Posted by: Donna Sokol
The sight of construction cranes in Washington DC is nothing new; the city is constantly changing and renewing. The cranes and I-beams peeking above the trees near the Washington Monument hearken the arrival of the newest Smithsonian museum: the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NAAHC). In the 15 years I’ve been in …
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Everett Wiggins, a metadata technician here at the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I am the oldest of three siblings, born and raised in rural mid- Michigan, where people generally either make corn flakes or cars. It was an idyllic childhood, full of books and open space to explore. …
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Barbara Bavis
Periodically, we hear about news stories in which an attorney, a party in a legal case, or even a courtroom spectator, find themselves in hot water for not meeting certain courtroom attendance standards. Apart from avoiding the wrath of judges, appearance can also apparently have an an effect on the outcome of a trial. In …
Posted in: Education, Law Library, Research Guide
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Way back in April 2011 we published a Pic of the Week post showing Hanibal holding pages from an interesting-looking book. We wanted to show that we use a wide range of print resources in our day-to-day research work – including things published in 1869! I was reminded of that post recently when I walked …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Pic of the Week