[Click here for the Spanish version of this post/Haz clic aquí para la versión en español.] On Thursday, March 19, 2020, starting at 8:00 a.m. EDT we will be LIVE in a completely virtual Transcribe-a-thon for our new crowdsourcing campaign, Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents. Participants can transcribe, review, and tag documents from our collection of Spanish Legal …
The following is a guest post by Anna Price, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, the Law Library of Congress recently rolled out a new webinar series on U.S. laws and legal resources. We welcome you to attend our upcoming webinar on U.S. …
The following post is written by Dante Figueroa, a senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. He has recently written on the Italian Parliamentary Library and Spanish Legal Documents (15th to 19th Century). As of March 11, 2020, 10,590 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Italy, with an additional 827 dead from …
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 …
Overview of the Welsh Bill on Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) which, if enacted, will prohibit all corporal punishment of children in Wales.
The following is a guest post by Bailey DeSimone, a library technician (metadata) in the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. Washington, D.C. became the capital of the United States of America in 1790. On February 27, 1801, the District of Columbia Organic Act established the city as an unincorporated territory. Throughout the 219 years …
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.
The following is a guest post by Zeynep Timocin Cantekin, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Jenny Gesley at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. The Council of the European Union stated that the increasing number of terrorist attacks since 2004 and …
