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Archive: 2020 (258 Posts)

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A Guide to Chinese Legal Research: Administrative Regulations

Posted by: Laney Zhang

As mentioned in my previous blog post, A Guide to Chinese Legal Research: Official Online Publication of Chinese Law (Update), “legislation” governed by the Law on Legislation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) is comprised of not only laws passed by the National People’s Congress (NPC) or its Standing Committee (NPCSC), but …

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Spanish Legal Documents (15th – 19th Centuries): Miscellaneous (and Beyond!)

Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux

The following post was written in collaboration with Dante Figueroa, a senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Today we bring you the final collection update from our Spanish Legal Documents series. For more on the history of this collection, as well as our efforts to present the full collection online, see our previous posts …

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Linking into Legislation: Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top 19 in 2019

Posted by: Andrew Weber

Robert shared the recent Congress.gov enhancements in December, which included new Committee Schedule navigation and a compact view of cosponsors on legislation. This release includes a new feature that I have been looking forward to. In the XML/HTML view of legislation, you have the option to directly share a link to a section of the legislation. …

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An Interview with Laura Turner O’Hara, Web Content Manager for the House of Representatives History, Art & Archives Website

Posted by: Robert Brammer

What is your academic and professional history? I went to Stanford University as a student-athlete, intending to be a journalist or professional runner. But I fell in love with history after touring one of the many archival collections on campus my freshman year. I did my undergraduate thesis research at the National Archives the summer …