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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This post describes the legal battles of Principal Chief John Ross of Cherokee Nation to preserve his people's homelands in Georgia, and the loss of those cases that led to the Trail of Tears and removal to Oklahoma.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
The following post is written by Dante Figueroa, a senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. He has recently written for In Custodia Legis on the Italian Parliamentary Library; Spanish Legal Documents (15th to 19th Century); Recent Legislation Enacted by Italy to Tackle COVID-19; and Italy: A New Silk Road Between Italy and China – the Belt …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
On June 25, 2020, the Library posted ISSNs on the pages of all of its blogs, including In Custodia Legis, which now bears ISSN 2691-6592 right under the “About this Blog” link on the upper left side of the page, and also on the bottom of the “About” page. If you are a serials cataloger, …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
The following is a guest post by Graciela Rodriguez-Ferrand, a foreign law specialist who covers Spain, Argentina, and other countries in South America. As a foreign law specialist for the Law Library of Congress covering most of South America, I thought a blog post on legal resources concerning the Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR) (Southern Common …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This post is a short history of Mary Church Terrell, suffragist and civil rights activist, wife of Judge Robert H Terrell, and subject of the test case District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.
Posted in: African American History, Collections, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
The Law Library holds a rare Malay law manuscript in Jawi script, hand copied by Munshi Abdullah in 1837. It was purchased for the United States and the Library by Alfred North during the United States Exploring Expedition. Dr. Joshua Kueh of Asian Division discovered this manuscript in the Law Library’s Rare Book Collection.
Posted in: Collections, Guest Post, Law Library, Pic of the Week