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Posted by: Margaret Wood
Last week, I had the honor to give a gallery talk on the Library of Congress exhibit, Drawing Justice: The Art of Courtroom Illustration. As a co-curator for the exhibit, I had helped in doing legal research for information about the cases portrayed by the drawings in the exhibit. At the talk, I spoke about …
Posted in: Event, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Robert Brammer
Congress.gov’s release 3.4 was deployed on Monday, June 26th. With this new release, you may have noticed a change in your search results. This is because the default search operator on the global and advanced search form is now AND instead of OR. For example, if you searched national park from the homepage, Congress.gov used to return …
Posted in: Congress, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
This week’s interview is with Alia Hussain, the newest technician in the Collection Services Division. With her writing background, I’m hoping she decides to contribute to our blog. Describe your background. I was born and raised in New Jersey, then moved to Chicago after graduating high school to attend college. What is your academic/professional history? …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jim Martin
On Thursday, June 8, the Manuscripts Division in association with the Law Library sponsored a symposium examining the effects of World War I on civil liberties in the United States. Mary Dudziak, of Emory University, provided a historical overview of how Woodrow Wilson went from being reelected as the peace candidate- to in April 1917, requesting a …
Posted in: Event, World War I
Posted by: Jim Martin
Saturday is the 150th anniversary of the organization of the Dominion of Canada. Confederation was a product of the work of the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences of 1864, the London Conference of 1866, and the passage of the British North America Act of 1867 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Four provinces comprised …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
The following is a guest post by Micaela DelMonte, a lawyer from the European Parliamentary Research Service who volunteered at the Law Library of Congress during May 2017. News about Brexit and the so-called Article 50 procedure have dominated the news about the European Union (EU) lately. If you are interested in researching these or …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Research Guide
Posted by: Donna Sokol
The Law Library staged a mock appeal for the Shakespearean character, Shylock, from the play, The Merchant of Venice. A full re-cap of the mock trial (including video!) is forthcoming, but we wanted to quickly share with you a scene from …
Posted in: Event, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Robert Brammer
This post is coauthored by Nathan Dorn, rare book curator, and Robert Brammer, senior legal information specialist. Our picture of the week is an image of Fort Caroline, Florida, which was founded by French Huguenots on June 22nd of 1564. This print has a complicated, but interesting history. It is part of a 1591 imprint of Theodor de …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
International tribunals have been around for some time, but the creation of international courts and tribunals to deal with international crimes is a relatively recent occurrence, with the first international criminal tribunal established just after World War II. The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law defines “international courts and tribunals” as ”permanent judicial bodies made up of independent …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library