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Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This post is coauthored by Jenny Gesley and Sayuri Umeda, foreign law specialists at the Global Legal Research Center. At some point or another, all of us have been exposed to children’s noise, be it as a parent or a neighbor, at the playground or at a school. And did we not wish for the noise …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Laney Zhang
The following is an interview with Yichao Zhang, a foreign law intern at the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born in Changsha, a beautiful and energetic city located in the south central part of China. I received my bachelor of laws degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and my master of laws …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview
Posted by: Robert Brammer
In January, the Congress.gov homepage received a new look and a new search form for the House Communications Collection. This month, we are bringing you the latest search tip, site enhancements, and most-viewed bills. Search Tip Adrienne recently featured this search tip on searching the House Communications Collection: A recent update to the Congress.gov homepage introduced a guided search form for House Communications, a data collection added to …
Posted in: Congress
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Both of my parents were prodigious readers. My father, the physicist, read histories, biographies, dictionaries, and the occasional mystery. My mother read “literature.” I remember Henry James and Jane Austen as two of her favorite authors, with W. Somerset Maugham as light relief. I have inherited their passion for reading and last summer indulged my …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
Following our releases of the Federal Register and United States Code collections, the Library of Congress is pleased to make available the decisions and orders from the United States Reports, from 1754 through 2003. The U.S. Reports is the collection of bound volumes that contain the official version of the U.S. Supreme Court opinions. The …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
Today’s interview is with Catharina Schmidt, a foreign law intern working with me on research related to the laws of Germany and other German-speaking jurisdictions at the Global Legal Research Directorate, Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I am originally from Germany and grew up with my younger sister in the city of Darmstadt, which is located near …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
A bill was introduced in the Kyrgyz legislature to recognize a white felt hat as a national symbol and require its wearing for official visits, including the Olympics.
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Laney Zhang
Blog post about the Chinese Lunar Calendar
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jennifer González
The individual statutes for congresses 68 through 81 are now available on the Law Library of Congress website. This addition closes the gap for the years for which the Statutes at Large were not available on the Internet. As with the volumes for previous congresses, each of these statutes is tagged with tailored, descriptive metadata …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library