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Posted by: Margaret Wood
As promised, here are the answers and the citations for yesterday’s post, April Fools’ Day Quiz – Star Trek Court Cases. Although some of the cases have been cited by elsewhere, I also tried to find others that are less familiar. And I discovered that composing made-up opinions was quite difficult! The best method seemed …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
In honor of April 1st, April Fools’ Day, and actor Leonard Nimoy who played Mr. Spock in Star Trek, we thought it would be fun to challenge our readers with quotes from cases which cited or referenced Star Trek. Some of these quotes are from real cases and some from cases we concocted. In fairness …
Posted in: Law Library
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 …
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
(The phrase “it’s just not cricket” is used to say that “something is unfair or dishonest”; “not done.” Perhaps it could have been exclaimed by some of the parties involved in the cases below?) The baseball season starts next week, but in other parts of the world the focus over the last six weeks has …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Back in January, Nicolas kicked off our ”FALQs” (aka “Frequently Asked Legal Questions“) series with a post on terrorism in France. He was asked on Twitter to continue the series with a post on freedom of speech in France. He has previously blogged about ”How Sunday Came to be a Day of Rest in France,” “Napoleon Bonaparte …
Posted in: Frequently Asked Legal Questions (FALQ), Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
Starting in 2012, I have posted information about this award and have enjoyed following the nominees and winners. I look forward to seeing which titles are selected for this year’s award. The following is a guest post by Monique Fields, manager of communications at the University of Alabama School of Law. The University of Alabama School …
Posted in: Event, Guest Post
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Since introducing Congress.gov in September 2012, we have continued to add the databases from THOMAS to the new system. We launched with legislation, followed soon thereafter by the Congressional Record, Committee Reports, and nominations. Today, we are releasing treaty documents. You can select “All Sources” and search across all of these data sets at once, something …
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Looking for a good legal dictionary? Well the Law Library has over 4200 of them, covering countries and languages from Chinese to Estonian to Cameroon. Many of these titles contain more than one language. So you could even draft your motion, translate it to French, and then from French to Portuguese, if you were so …
Posted in: Collections, Education
Posted by: Liah Caravalho
On Wednesday, March 11, 2015, the Law Library of Congress hosted Meg McAleer, senior archives specialist from the Manuscript Division for a power lunch program in celebration of Women’s History Month to discuss civil rights activist Rosa Parks and her experience processing the Rosa Parks Manuscript Collection. Rosa Parks made her indelible mark on American …
Posted in: Collections, Event