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Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
This Saturday, August 31, join us for our 19th Annual National Book Festival. Starting at 9:00 a.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, more than a hundred best-selling authors, novelists, historians, poets, and children’s writers will take the stage, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. While at the festival, come visit the …
Posted in: Event, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s interview is with Breshan Bryant, the newest technician in the Law Library’s Collection Services Division (CSD). We’re very happy to have her aboard. Describe your background. I was born in Mobile, Alabama, but grew up in Prince George’s County, Maryland. I am the best of four siblings and the proud aunt of seven nieces …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly McKenna
Today’s interview is with Henri Barbeau, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Nicolas Boring at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I am a Canadian law student at the University of Montreal, in the province of Quebec. I studied history as an undergraduate student, …
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Posted by: Laney Zhang
History and overview of the numbering of legal acts in Japan based on the year of the Japanese emperor.
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Barbara Bavis
The following is a guest post by Anna Price, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. We are back again to focus on the Law Library’s Research Guides. This time we are discussing another popular guide, How to Find Free Case Law Online. Until a few years ago, case law generally was …
Posted in: Research Guide
Posted by: Robert Brammer
What is your academic and professional history? I graduated with a BA in English and worked for about five years in editorial and project management positions in the book publishing industry. I decided to go back to graduate school, intending to be a librarian. I attended the School of Information at the University of Michigan-Ann …
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Posted by: Ruth Levush
Interview is with Haviva Yesgat, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Tariq Ahmad at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress.
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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
Answers to frequently asked legal questions regarding the Swedish pre-trial detention system.
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
Describe your background I was born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and moved to the United States when I was two and a half. I lived in northeast Philadelphia for about five years and after that moved to Warminster, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where I went to high school at William Tennent High School. What is your …
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