Robert H. Terrell, Municipal Judge
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Judge Robert H. Terrell was the first African American municipal judge in Washington D.C.
Posted in: African American History, Collections, Law Library
Archive: February 2020 (17 Posts)
The Creation of Committees in the House of Representatives
Posted by: Jim Martin
Article I, Section 5, Clause 3 of the Constitution requires that both chambers of Congress keep journals of their proceedings and that the journals be periodically published. Unlike the debates of the early congresses, which were not compiled and published until some years later, the journals have always been published after the end of each …
Posted in: Law Library
Join Us on March 5 for a Webinar on the IMF, World Bank, and WTO
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
Please join us on March 5, 2020, at 2pm for the webinar “Profiling International Organizations: IMF, World Bank, WTO.” My colleague Elizabeth Boomer and I will provide insight into the history, structure, key functions, and current developments at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO). Elizabeth Boomer earned a …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
How to Become a Lawyer Without Going to Law School
Posted by: Robert Brammer
No, I’m not suggesting just hanging up a shingle without taking the bar. To do so would result in needing to get your own defense attorney instead of becoming one, since the unauthorized practice of law is a felony in many states. I’m referring to “reading the law,” the process of becoming a lawyer by apprenticing …
Posted in: Law Library
An Interview with Natella Boltyanskaya, Scholar in Residence
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
Interview with Natella Boltyanskaya, Scholar in Residence at the Law Library of Congress who is currently researching the means and extent of the support that was provided by American legislators to the Soviet human rights movement.
Posted in: Interview
Únete para mejorar el acceso a documentos jurídicos de España con la campaña Herencia
Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
[Haz clic aquí para la versión en inglés/Click here for the English version of this post.] Nos complace presentarles Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents, el primer proyecto de crowdsourcing dedicado a documentos en otros idiomas aparte del inglés. La Biblioteca Jurídica del Congreso te invita a ayudarnos a mejorar el acceso a nuestra colección …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Join the Library’s Herencia Campaign to Improve Access to Spanish Legal Documents
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
[Click here for the Spanish version of this post/Haz clic aquí para la versión en español.] We are excited to launch, in late February, the Library’s first crowdsourcing project dedicated to papers in languages other than English, Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents. The Law Library of Congress invites you to help improve access to …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
From the Serial Set: Before It Was Presidents’ Day…
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Bailey DeSimone, a library technician (metadata) in the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. Correspondence between the Congress and the American public is essential in understanding legislative decision-making. Among the documents and journals of the Serial Set, we’ve discovered reprints of letters between Congress and the Washington family …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
A Congress.gov Interview with Owen Henry, Legislative Data Analyst
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Today’s interview is with Owen Henry, a legislative data analyst in the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. Describe your background. My parents both worked for the Department of the Interior over in Foggy Bottom, so I grew up living around Washington, DC. I got a degree in political science from Oberlin College, then went …
Posted in: Interview