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Posted by: Robert Brammer
One of the things that makes the Law Library of Congress so unique is its specialty in foreign, comparative, and international law. It often surprises people to learn that the majority of the Law Library’s collection is in a language other than English. The Law Library’s foreign law collections developed as the United States assumed …
Posted in: Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Pichrotanak Bunthan, a legal research fellow with the Law Library of Congress who is working under the supervision of Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist covering Japan and other jurisdictions in East and Southeast Asia. In my previous blog post, I described what legal education in Cambodia looks like. As a sequel to that post, the …
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Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog post describes a recently published Law Library report on the regulation of car crash avoidance systems to detect vulnerable road users.
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Laney Zhang
The following is a guest post by Pichrotanak Bunthan, a legal research fellow with the Law Library of Congress, who is working under the supervision of Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist covering Japan and other jurisdictions in East and Southeast Asia. History and Background of Higher Education in Cambodia Cambodia’s education system, including legal education, had …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and we want to dedicate this month’s From the Serial Set post to the peoples of Asia and the Pacific Islands who enriched U.S. history and culture. Today, we’ll be sharing highlights from the narrative of Commodore Perry’s journey from the Chesapeake Bay to the Edo …
Posted in: Asian American History, Ask A Librarian, Law Library, Pacific Islander History
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
The picture of the week is a cluster of cherry blossoms which were planted as a symbol of friendship between the United States and Japan after World War II.
Posted in: Asian American History, Collections, Law Library, Pacific Islander History
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
We recently published a report on the Recognition of Foreign Passports on our website. The report, produced by specialists and analysts of the Global Legal Research Directorate, surveys 20 jurisdictions around the world as well as international law, and focuses on the rules and approaches for recognizing foreign passports. In addition, the report covers the …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
The following is a joint guest post by Elizabeth Boomer, an international law consultant, and George Sadek, a foreign law specialist, from the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. On March 29, 2021, the engineers of the Suez Canal Authority were finally able to restore passage through the Suez Canal after a 1,300-foot, 220,000-ton …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Kelly Goles
This is a guest post by George Sadek, a foreign law specialist with the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. George has contributed a number of posts to this blog, including posts on The Trial of Seif al Islam al Gaddafi, Controversy Over New Egyptian Law that Regulates the Construction of Churches, and …
Posted in: Law Library, Legal Reports