Stunned By Her Thunder: Fannie Lou Hamer
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Blog post about Fannie Lou Hamer's legacy in voting rights and desegregation.
Posted in: African American History, Collections, Law Library, Women's History
Archive: February 2021 (15 Posts)
Upcoming US Law Webinars – March 2021
Posted by: Anna Price
Next month, our librarians will instruct on tracing federal regulations and using the Law Library’s online resources through law.gov. More information about the contents of each class can be found below. Orientation to Law Library Collections Date: Tuesday, March 9, 1:00 PM ET – 2:00 PM ET Content: Introduces participants to information about the Law …
Posted in: Education, Law Library
Join us to Celebrate Herencia’s First Anniversary
Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
The Law Library of Congress is proud to announce our all-virtual festivities to celebrate the first anniversary of our crowdsourcing campaign, Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents. In a year, we were able to complete over 2,000 pages! We are so grateful and proud of all of our volunteers for helping us reach our goal …
Posted in: Event, Law Library
75 Years since the Finnish War Trials
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
One of the things I love most about the Law Library is the amazing resources we have. Had this been a normal year, I would have been able to spend this morning flipping through the physical copies of the Finnish gazette (Finlands författningssamling) to find historic legislation. One such piece of legislation is the Act …
Posted in: Global Law
Now Available on Congress.gov – The United States Statutes at Large from 1973-1994
Posted by: Robert Brammer
As announced at the Congress.gov Virtual Public Forum, we are excited to bring you more full-text access to legislation in the form of the United States Statutes at Large. Twenty years of law texts, dating from 1973-1994, are now easy to access from Congress.gov. Law texts can be accessed from lists like Public Laws 103rd …
Posted in: Congress
An Interview with Courtney Kennedy, Herencia Crowdsourcing Intern
Posted by: Kelly Goles
Today’s interview is with Courtney Kennedy, an intern working on transcribing the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. She will be a panelist in our upcoming Lunch & Learn Webinar: A Conversation with the Herencia Crowdsourcing Interns. Describe your background: I am originally from Texas. I moved to Norman, …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Celebrating Valentine’s Day: Law, Love, and Life in the Movies
Posted by: Margaret Wood
In celebration of Valentine’s Day this past weekend, I have once again polled my blog colleagues for some of their favorite movies involving love and the law. As I noted in our 2014 post on Valentine’s Day, we seem to be somewhat jaundiced on the subject of love so not all the stories are happy …
Posted in: In the News
An Interview with Teresa Kane, Herencia Crowdsourcing Intern
Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
Today’s interview is with Teresa Kane, an intern working on transcribing the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. She will be a panelist in our upcoming Lunch & Learn Webinar: A Conversation with the Herencia Crowdsourcing Interns. Describe your background. I am currently a junior at the …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
New Acquisition: 15th Century Manuscript of Johannes de Imola’s Commentary on the Decretales of Gregory IX
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
In a recent post on this blog, I announced the acquisition of an interesting 15th century manuscript of a work of canon law that recorded the Canons and Constitutions of the Archdiocese of Zaragoza, Spain. It was an exciting addition to the Law Library’s growing collection of medieval and early modern manuscript books. In this …
Posted in: Collections, In the News, Law Library