Join us on August 18th at 2 p.m. EDT for a webinar Foreign and Comparative Law webinar titled, Turkish International Protection Law. Please register here. According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees in the world. This presentation will provide an overview of the international protection and temporary …
In early July, Andrew wrote about feedback driven improvements that have been added to Congress.gov, such as adding the ability to browse committee hearing transcripts. In this release, the Congress.gov team continues the work of improving the accessibility of Congress.gov. Now, when you access a Congressional Record Daily Edition article, you can click “listen to …
Today’s interview is with Baptiste Beurrier, a foreign law intern working in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress under the supervision of Nicolas Boring, the foreign law specialist covering French-speaking jurisdictions. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Bordeaux, a city in Southwest France. My paternal grandparents lived …
This post describes two land claims cases heard before the Supreme Court: FPC v. Tuscarora Indian Nation and County of Oneida v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York.
This blog post describes when a previously-decided criminal case can be reheard in Sweden and summarizes a recent Swedish Supreme Court decision allowing the reopening of a murder case to the detriment of the previously acquitted defendant.
An interview is with Kristin Glover, a law librarianship graduate student at the University of Washington iSchool, who is completing a directed field work with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress.
