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Posted by: Robert Brammer
We have previously written about the practice of dueling among members of Congress prior to the Civil War. We also discussed a book in the Library of Congress Special Collections Division that prescribes the rules governing a duel with pistols. Today, we visit the spot where many of those infamous duels took place – the …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
The following is a guest post by Graciela Rodriguez-Ferrand, a senior foreign law specialist at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. When a plane landed in Madrid, Spain, on January 31, 2020, with passengers who had been evacuated from China …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Guest Post
Posted by: Ruth Levush
An interview with John Al Saddy, Arabic speaking Legal Fellow at the Law Library of Congress.
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Jim Martin
On this day in 1837, President Andrew Jackson, in one of his last official acts, signed legislation to expand the size of the Supreme Court of the United States by adding two associate justice positions, increasing its size to a Chief Justice and eight associate justices. The same legislation also increased the number of federal judicial …
Posted in: Federal Judiciary
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Last month we brought you information about new alerts for updated weekly committee schedules and the implementation of Read Speaker for bill text. For our first release this month, we have added the ability to sort bill cosponsors by name or date from the All Info view for a bill. Enhancements Enhancement – Members …
Posted in: Congress
Posted by: Laney Zhang
This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. It was recently reported that Dr. Li Wenliang, a Chinese doctor who was among the first to raise the alarm about the coronavirus disease (now named COVID-19) and died after contracting the virus from a patient, had been reprimanded by the police for “spreading rumors.” On his Weibo …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Judge Robert H. Terrell was the first African American municipal judge in Washington D.C.
Posted in: Law Library, Collections, African American History
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
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: Law Library, Global Law