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Posted by: Donna Sokol
If you are planning a trip to Washington, D.C., to see the Magna Carta exhibition, may I suggest another stop on your itinerary? You’ve heard the phrase “hidden gem,” but the object I am sharing with you today truly takes that term to a new level. It is a Magna Carta replica tucked into the …
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Posted by: Robert Brammer
My friends and I were fortunate to be in Scotland during the run-up to today’s vote on the Scottish independence referendum. We read several articles about the referendum, but only began to grasp the various arguments for and against it after paying a visit to the respective campaigns. After taking a bike tour of Edinburgh, …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Donna Sokol
Yesterday we celebrated the fourth birthday of In Custodia Legis, and today we have reached another milestone: this is the 1,000th blog post that we’ve published! We asked David S. Mao, the Law Librarian of Congress, to write the 1,000th post. In it, he highlights some of the many different areas of interest for the Law Library …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
On July 6, 1553, Edward VI, the only son of Henry VIII, died at the age of fifteen. Edward had been king since 1547 when he had succeeded to the throne at the age of nine. When Henry died in 1547, he had been married six times and had three children. His marital career is …
Posted in: Law Library
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 …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Donna Sokol
This is a guest post by Jennifer Davis, a supervisory collection specialist in our Collection Services Division at the Law Library of Congress. Hurrying to work in the morning is a good time to think of to-do lists, song lyrics and snatches of poetry. Like most DC workers, I have been lucky enough to hustle …
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Posted by: Margaret Wood
During a recent blog team meeting, one of my colleagues mentioned restrictions during the early modern era concerning who could consume that newly discovered drink–chocolate. Having studied medieval history in college, I was reminded that during the Middle Ages there had also been efforts to pass laws regulating many aspects of daily life, with the …
Posted in: Global Law