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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The following is a guest post by Tariq Ahmad, a legal analyst in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Tariq has previously blogged about Islamic Law in Pakistan – Global Legal Collection Highlights, the Law Library’s 2013 Panel Discussion on Islamic Law, Sedition Law in India, and Physician-Assisted Suicide in Canada. …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Guest Post
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
This week’s interview is with Lucy Baker, an intern in the Collection Service Division. Ms. Baker is working on the foreign legal gazettes gifted to us by the Dag Hammarskjold Library at the United Nations. She has worked on material in various languages and is undaunted by the challenge. Describe your background. Born and raised …
Posted in: Collections, Interview
Posted by: Margaret Wood
As we have mentioned in previous posts, the Law Library of Congress is a Supreme Court depository library. This means that we collect the records and briefs filed in cases before the court. We also receive copies of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions hot off the presses. Yesterday we received a bench opinion for King …
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Posted by: Andrew Weber
With each release of Congress.gov, THOMAS is one step closer to retiring to Monticello. Tina has recently joined the Congress.gov team and has been working on a gap analysis between the two systems. She is identifying items such as the Senate Executive Communications and Congressional Record Index that exist only on THOMAS as things to …
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The following is a guest post by Geneviève Claveau and Julia Heron, summer interns at the Global Legal Research Directorate, Law Library of Congress. Every year on June 24th, the province of Quebec, Canada celebrates Saint-Jean-Baptiste day. Initially associated with Catholicism, this holiday goes as far back as 1834, when it was first used to …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The following is a guest post by Agata Tajchert, one of the collections technicians in the Processing Section of the Law Library’s Collection Services Division. Agata heads up our preservation efforts to microfilm material that is too fragile to remain in paper form. A few years ago, after a major inventorying project, the Law Library’s …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Laney Zhang
This week’s interview is with Shi Qiu, one of several interns working in the foreign, comparative, and international law divisions of the Law Library this summer. Describe your background I’m from China, and currently a third year JD candidate at Tulane University Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana. Prior to coming to the United States, I …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview
Posted by: Francisco Macías
Our Mother’s Day post generated an inquiry from one of our readers: “Is the history of Father’s Day similar?” The answer is, at once, yes and no. As with Mother’s Day, there may have been informal or even local celebrations that took place prior to it becoming a nationally observed holiday. However, the reality with Father’s Day is …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer González
June 21st is National Aboriginal Day in Canada, and in celebration of this event, we are proud to open the Canadian portion of the Indigenous Law Portal. This new segment of the portal expands our coverage for the first time beyond the United States. The Canadian portion of the Indigenous Law Portal is divided into three regions: Eastern, Western, and Northern Canada. These …
Posted in: Law Library, Collections, Global Law