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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This week’s interview is with Julia Heron, one of our summer interns in the Global Legal Directorate. You may already know Julia from a post she co-authored for In Custodia Legis, “National Holiday of Quebec: An Introduction to Quebec Dual Legal System.” Describe your background. I was born and raised in Montreal. I recently completed …
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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: Hanibal Goitom
This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. It is election season in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation. This is the fifth election cycle in the country since democracy was restored in 1999 after many years of military rule. Elections conducted since then, particularly presidential elections, had been marred with various controversies, including …
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