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Archive: June 2015 (17 Posts)

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It’s No Longer Open Season on the Basque in Iceland

Posted by: Francisco Macías

This is a guest post by Wendy Zeldin, a senior legal research analyst in the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Directorate.  Having recently watched several episodes of The Eagle, whose protagonist is a troubled but brilliant Icelandic detective working in Denmark, and having followed the exploits of Arnaldur Indridason’s Detective Erlendur, I consider myself no …

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An Interview with Pam Oliver, Collection Services Intern

Posted by: Betty Lupinacci

This week’s interview is with Pamela Oliver, one of our summer interns in the Collection Services Division.  Pam is working on our Gazette Guide, inventorying our holdings one country at a time for inclusion in what will eventually be a complete database of all of our foreign gazette holdings.  Pam jumped right in, working on …

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Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Commemoration Event

Posted by: Donna Sokol

The major international commemoration of the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta happened today at Runnymede Meadows in Surrey, England. Prime Minister David Cameron, HRH The Princess Royal, American Bar Association president William Hubbard, and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch participated in the rededication of the American Bar Association memorial at Runnymede.   The Law Librarian of …

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An Interview with Geneviève Claveau, Foreign Law Intern

Posted by: Andrew Weber

This is a guest post by Nicolas Boring, French foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress.  Nicolas wrote FALQs: Freedom of Speech in France and co-collaborated on the post, Does the Haitian Criminal Code Outlaw Making Zombies. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and my first language is …

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The Law of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation: A Beginner’s Guide

Posted by: Barbara Bavis

June is Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride month, and as such, it seems the perfect time to highlight resources that address the legal issues surrounding gender identity and sexual orientation in the United States. While these issues are frequently talked about as if they fall into a singular category, they bleed into multiple …

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Moving On, Again – Pic of the Week

Posted by: Betty Lupinacci

Typical depictions of librarians (on the nicer end of the spectrum) include people who are fastidious and exacting and who keep cats.  In the Law Library, we may have to add “those who are magical” to the list. (Hmm, maybe that explains the whole cat thing.) Last October I wrote about stage 1 of our …