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Posted by: Anna Price
In March, we are introducing a new addition to our orientation to legal research webinars. To date, this series has included recurring classes on navigating legal resources from the U.S. government’s three branches: statutes, administrative laws, and court opinions. Our new class on federal legislative history will offer a deeper dive into a bill’s lifecycle, and …
Posted in: Education, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This post discusses the 110th anniversary of Arizona statehood.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Since Abraham Lincoln‘s birthday is tomorrow we thought we might share some Lincoln-related resources, chief among them a document written in Lincoln’s hand that the Law Library recently acquired. The document is a complaint that Lincoln wrote when he was practicing law with Stephen Trigg Logan (1800-1880). Lincoln worked with Logan from 1841-1844, following his …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Robert Brammer
We hope you can join us for the 2022 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture! The Law Library of Congress and the Supreme Court Fellows Program will present a conversation with Associate Justice Stephen Breyer on Thursday, February 17 at 3:30 p.m. EST. This event will be live-streamed. The Law Librarian of Congress Aslihan Bulut will introduce the …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
A post about Dovey Johnson Roundtree, a civil rights attorney.
Posted in: African American History, Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Last month, Robert shared that Congress.gov now has committee hearing transcripts going back to the 103rd Congress (1993-1994). We previously added Committee Prints to the website. With today’s release, you can now browse the House prints, Senate prints and Joint committee prints. They are listed by the print number, title, committee, and any legislation that …
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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
In recent posts on this blog, I have written about the evidence used in 17th-century witch trials, both in America and in England. In those posts, I pointed out that proving the crime of witchcraft was no simple matter. Rules for evidence in criminal trials were not yet formalized at that time, and opinions about …
Posted in: Collections
Posted by: Kelly Goles
On December 9, 2021, we held our annual Human Rights Day event. Each year, the Law Library of Congress celebrates Human Rights Day to commemorate the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly with an event designed to promote understanding and recognition of human rights around the globe. This year’s …
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Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Francesca Marquez, who served as a fall 2021 remote intern transcribing and researching documents in the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. If, in the words of Victor Hugo, “curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour[,]” then life …
Posted in: Collections, Guest Post, Law Library