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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The following post is cross posted on the In the Muse: Performing Arts Blog. As promised, we present Part 2 of our look into Music and the Law where we polled our staff to determine their favorite songs/musical works regarding the law. The submissions were very diverse! Here we take a look at those that fit …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Luis Acosta, chief of one of the Law Library’s foreign, comparative, and international law divisions. Luis also recently wrote a post about a report on education as a constitutional right in foreign countries. The doctrine of sovereign immunity, or state immunity, is an international law principle that limits …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Legal Reports
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
This is a guest post by Patience Tyne. Patience is working in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library of Congress as part of the Library of Congress’s Junior Fellows Program. The program’s focus is to increase access to our collections for our various patron groups. The project that I am working on in …
Posted in: Collections, Event, Guest Post, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
The following is a guest post by Luis Acosta, a division chief in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. An interesting aspect of comparative constitutional analysis considers how differences in countries’ histories and legal cultures are reflected in national constitutions. A recent Law Library of Congress report highlights such differences …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Luis Acosta, a division chief in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. The Law Library of Congress is very proud to announce that Jenny Gesley, our foreign law specialist covering German-speaking countries, was named one of two recipients of the Baker & McKenzie Award …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library