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Posted by: Jennifer González
Today’s interview is with Noah Lapidus. Noah has been working on the Indigenous Law Portal for several months as an LC Knowledge Navigators Intern. We have previously written about the Indigenous Law Portal several times, including an introduction to the Portal and our addition of Alaskan and Canadian indigenous laws to the portal. Describe …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
Today’s interview is with Jeremy McCabe, a summer intern working in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. He is one of two interns working here this summer from the University of Washington Law Librarianship program. Describe your background. I grew up in Hammond, Indiana, which is a suburb of Chicago. I attended …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
Today’s interview is with Mary Thurston, a summer intern working in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is one of two interns we have this summer from the same program that brought us Ashley Sundin last year and of which I am also an alumna. Describe your background. I am interning …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
Yesterday I highlighted 14 Nobel Peace Prize winners who were leaders of their country before, during, or after they won the prize. Today, I will highlight 19 more winners with legal backgrounds. Many of these laureates were leaders in international law, disarmament policies, or helped to broker peace in time of conflict. Elihu Root was …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
As Elin mentioned yesterday, the Nobel Peace Prize will be given out on Thursday in Oslo, Norway. I was interested in the recipients this year, the National Dialogue Quartet, and while researching I found that one quarter of this organization was the Tunisian Order of Lawyers. That piqued my interest as to how many other …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
Today’s interview is with Allegra Chilstrom. Allegra worked with us last year as an intern adding metadata to the U.S. Treaty Series, and we welcomed her back this year with a new class of interns to work on the Statutes at Large. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia, and I’m happy to be …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
Today’s interview is with Faith Hamby. Faith worked with us last year and we were very happy she came back this year to continue working on the Statutes at Large as a metadata technician. Describe your background. During my undergraduate days, I worked at Marquette University’s Memorial Library in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Intrigued by the J.R.R. Tolkien …
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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 …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
For the last week, I have had the pleasure of working with two library students from the University of Texas at Austin, Laura Fry and Megan Martinsen. They spent their spring break in Washington, D.C. as part of the “Horns on the Hill” internship program, learning about the Library of Congress and our projects to provide …
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