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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Raphael Lemkin was an international jurist, famous for coining the word "genocide" and making the act of genocide a crime in international law.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Jewish American History, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
Eighty-five years ago today, on May 30, 1934, Congress established Everglades National Park. The park is one of the most unique national parks in the country. It is 1.5 million acres of what is commonly referred to as “swampland,” but actually contains at least eight different ecosystems, including freshwater sloughs, marl prairies, hardwood hammocks, pinelands, …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Kelly McKenna
Describe your background. I’m from a small village in Derbyshire, a county in the East Midlands of England, and don’t live far from the house I grew up in. My parents are both from Birmingham, but moved to Derbyshire just before they had me. I lived in the northern city of Sheffield as an undergraduate, …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Earlier this month, Andrew shared the update to our committee schedule page, which launched in January 2019. With this month’s second release, we have enhanced the navigation of member profile pages. When viewing a bill or resolution on a member profile page, you can use the navigation arrows to move from the next or previous …
Posted in: Congress
Posted by: Donna Sokol
On Tuesday, May 21, 2019, Tihomir Stoytchev presented two copies of the commemorative reprint of Bulgaria’s Tarnovo Constitution to the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jim Martin
Today marks the 157th anniversary of the Homestead Act becoming law. For a number of years before the Civil War, there had been interest in allocating public lands in the trans-Mississippi west to individual settlers, but for a variety of reasons, including arguments over the status of slavery in the territories and concerns by Northern …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
Tomorrow, May 18, 2019, is World Whisky Day, a day that “celebrates all types of whisky/whiskey and encourages everyone to enjoy whisky responsibly.” As a law blog, there is no better way to celebrate such a day than with a post on a whisky court case! On June 7, 2018, the European Court of Justice …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Jim Martin
The end of the baseball reserve clause came to major league baseball players as an early Christmas gift on December 23, 1975, when arbitrator Peter Seitz ruled that two players, Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally, were eligible to negotiate contracts with any team. Prior to this time, major league players were bound under the reserve …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
Two hundred thirty years ago today, on May 15, 1789, the Swedish Supreme Court was created by a royal regulation (Kongl. Maj:ts Rådige Förordnande för Des Högste Domstol eller Justitiae Revision af den 15 maj 1789). The Swedish king, Gustav III (known as the Masquerade King), abolished the Council of the Realm (Riksråd) and created …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library