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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 …
Posted in: Education, Law Library
Posted by: Liah Caravalho
In celebration of the 95th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, today’s pic of the week is from the Library’s Manuscript Division of women suffragist leader Alice Paul with other activists of the National Woman’s Party (NWP). On August 18, 1920, Tennessee General State Assembly member Harry T. Burn, at his mother’s insistence, cast the final vote needed …
Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Andrew Winston, a legal reference librarian in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress. Andrew interviews the Virginia State Law Librarian, Gail Warren. We have previously interviewed another state law librarian, Jennifer Frazier, from Kentucky. How long have you been the Virginia State Law Librarian, and …
Posted in: Guest Post, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Robert Brammer
One of things I enjoy about working at the Library of Congress is visiting our Manuscripts Division to read first-hand accounts of historic events. After reading a biography of Andrew Jackson, I looked through the finding aid for his papers and came upon a letter from a Tennessee lawyer named Charles Dickinson. The estimated number …
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