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Posted by: Donna Sokol
UPDATE: We regret to announce the cancellation of the 2019 Kellogg Lecture. The lecture will be rescheduled to a date in 2020. Announcements for the new date will be posted to the Law Library’s blog, sent via our News & Events email list, and posted as a new Eventbrite page. We hope that you will join …
Posted in: Event, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Last month Margaret shared the update to our Committee Profile pages that added new links to our Committee Schedule. This was one in a series of improvements surrounding the Committee Schedule that first launched in January. We added the next three scheduled hearings to the homepage, links from the hearing pages to the legislation or …
Posted in: Congress
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following post was written in collaboration with Dante Figueroa, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Today we bring you another big update from our Spanish Legal Documents series. For more on the history of this collection, as well as our ongoing efforts to present the full collection online, see our previous posts describing …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
While researching one issue related to laws in my jurisdictional portfolio I often come across another interesting piece of information. For instance, while reading about the Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf’s decision to revoke the royal highness titles for five of his grandchildren, I realized that today, November 7, 2019, marks the 40th anniversary of the amendment to …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Ruth Levush
Today’s interview is with Abdulhadi Zafar, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist George Sadek at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Abdulhadi conducts research on the laws of Gulf Cooperation Council countries. Describe your background? I am from Saudi Arabia. I was born and raised in the holy city of Mecca. …
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Laney Zhang
The following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist who covers Japan and other countries in East and Southeast Asia. Sayuri has previously written posts for In Custodia Legis on various topics, including New Era, New Law Number, Holy Cow – Making Sense of Japanese Wagyu Cow Export Rules, Japanese Criminal Legal System as Seen Through the Carlos Ghosn Case, Disciplining Judges for …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
November is celebrated as National American Indian Heritage Month in the United States. In addition to our guide to Indigenous Law Resources online for U.S.-centric sources on indigenous law, the Law Library also holds a number of international and foreign law resources on indigenous law in other countries. For instance, earlier this year, the Global Legal …
Posted in: Global Law