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Archive: November 2020 (4 Posts)

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Join Us For A Webinar To Learn How To Explore Our Vast Collection of Foreign Legal Gazettes

Posted by: Robert Brammer

On December 8th at 2pm ET, the Law Library of Congress will host a webinar to demonstrate how to use our new Foreign Legal Gazettes Database to explore the Law Library’s vast collection of foreign legal gazettes. The Law Library has been collecting foreign legal gazettes since the mid-19th century. We are one of the last …

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Join Us for our 2020 Human Rights Day Event: Contact Tracing and the Right of Privacy

Posted by: Robert Brammer

This is a post by Jenny Gesley, senior foreign law specialist and Robert Brammer, chief of the Office of External Relations.  The Law Library of Congress annually commemorates Human Rights Day with a special program that promotes understanding and recognition of a critical social, economic, or cultural human rights issue. This year, on December 10 …

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Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top for November of 2020

Posted by: Robert Brammer

In the last release, Andrew shared that we added a video icon to search results for committee meetings that include a video, the Congress.gov Share/Save toolbar was updated, and a button was added to committee prints and committee transcripts pages to read the text from those collections to you. In this release, we are excited …

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Join Us on November 19th for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar – “Review of Recently Published Law Library Reports”

Posted by: Robert Brammer

The upheavals of the year 2020 will leave an indelible mark on legal systems throughout the world. This year, much of the work of the Law Library of Congress focused on the changes imposed by the pandemic. As part of the Law Library’s Legal Research Institute’s Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series, on November 19, …