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Archive: June 2015 (17 Posts)

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FALQs: Proposals to Reform Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws

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. …

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An Interview with Lucy Baker – Collection Services Intern

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 …

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King v. Burwell, a Law Librarian is Sighted? – Pic of the Week

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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THOMAS to Congress.gov: Gap Analysis and User Testing

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 …

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House of Lords Case Records Become (Micro)Film Stars

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 …

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An Interview with Shi Qiu, Foreign Law Intern

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 …

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Father’s Day – Pic of the Week

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 …

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Celebrating Canada’s National Aboriginal Day with a New Addition to the Indigenous Law Portal

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 …