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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
One of my favorite features of the Law Library is its incredible resources and I especially enjoy looking through old foreign laws. It may seem odd to highlight items from our collection while our physical doors remain closed, but the entire Law Library continues to serve you online. This post will look at the Autonomy …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
The following is a guest post by Clare Feikert-Ahalt, a senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering the United Kingdom and several other jurisdictions. Clare has written a number of posts for In Custodia Legis, including Weird Laws, or Urban Legends?; FALQs: Brexit Referendum; and The UK’s Legal Response to the London …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
An overview of the Finnish legislation on mandatory stockpiles for medicine and medical supplies.
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
My colleague Betty has previously written about the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal built in 1828-1850. Her post inspired me to write about the Göta Kanal in Sweden, which was completed in 1832. It was originally commissioned 210 years ago tomorrow, on April 11, 1810, by a charter (Privilegiebrev) issued by the Swedish King Karl XIII …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
As airlines and airports are limiting operations across the globe, many airports are significantly less busy and noisy than usual. However, they are not completely quiet and there are reports that some commercial airplanes continue to fly, without passengers. In a recently-published report, Airport Noise Regulations, the Law Library of Congress looks at national strategies and rules for reducing noise from …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
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 …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
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.
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
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, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
Interview with Natella Boltyanskaya, Scholar in Residence at the Law Library of Congress who is currently researching the means and extent of the support that was provided by American legislators to the Soviet human rights movement.
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