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Archive: August 2022 (23 Posts)

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Join Us for Constitution Day 2022 – The Hughes Court: From Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941

Posted by: Robert Brammer

We hope you can join us in-person or online for our annual Constitution Day event on September 14 at 3pm EDT in the Library’s Jefferson Building, room LJ119. This event will feature Harvard Law School William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law emeritus Mark Tushnet in an interview with University of Virginia School of Law Dean Risa …

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An Interview with Ali Ebshara, Foreign Law Intern

Posted by: Elin Hofverberg

Today’s interview is with Ali Ebshara, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist George Sadek in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Kuwait, where I spent most of my summers reading indoors because it was too hot to go outside. I …

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The Animal Welfare Act Grants Protection to Pets and More

Posted by: Anna Price

The following is a guest post by Annie Ross, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is a current student of political science and international studies at Northwestern University. On August 24th, 1966, the first federal act to regulate animal welfare in research was signed into law by …

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Cryptocurrency Law: Recent Legal Developments on Non-fungible Tokens

Posted by: Anna Price

The following is a guest post by Carson Lloyd, a foreign law intern working in the Global Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress under the supervision of Louis Myers, a foreign, comparative, and international legal reference librarian. This post summarizes recent cryptocurrency developments within the U.S. and the U.K. relating to non-fungible tokens …