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Posted by: Robert Brammer
This is a guest post by Ashley Granby Wolf, an intern in the Office of External Relations of the Law Library of Congress. Join us on July 26, 2018 for our live and free Congress.gov webinar hosted by the Law Library of Congress! Our legal reference experts, Barbara Bavis and Robert Brammer , will demonstrate …
Posted in: Congress
Posted by: Donna Sokol
Describe your background. I grew up in northeastern Maryland in the suburbs of Baltimore and Wilmington, Delaware. Currently, I live on Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota where my husband, Bo, is stationed. We have two sons, Noah and Ezra, two dogs, and two guinea pigs, seemingly on our way to a mini-farm! What …
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Robert Brammer
We hope to see you at the upcoming annual American Association of Law Libraries Conference in Baltimore this July! Law Library of Congress staff will be presenting three programs at the conference. On Sunday, July 15th at 4pm, Andrew Weber, Jenny Gesley, Hanibal Goitom, and Laney Zhang will be presenting, Bitcoin: Changing Laws for an …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Laney Zhang
It is not uncommon for people nowadays to seek out assisted reproductive technology, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), to conceive children. The technology allows freezing the embryos created through IVF for use at a later date, when for example fertility may become an issue. Disputes over who owns the frozen embryos may arise later, typically when …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
This blog post is part of our Global Legal Collection Highlights series intended to introduce readers to various foreign legal collections and resources. The creation of a nation is a particularly complex and difficult task. One might say that it often involves blood, sweat, and tears, as well as possibly toil and terror; the types of …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law