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Posted by: Kelly Goles
Today’s interview is with Sarah Friedman, a Presidential Management Fellow working in the Public Services Division at the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where I was always just a short drive away from the beach and many beautiful coastal New England towns. Growing up, my …
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This blog post is a bibliography of materials acquired since 2019 for the jurisdictions of Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua in commemoration of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Posted in: Collections, Hispanic American History, Law Library
Posted by: Ruth Levush
A recently published Law Library of Congress report, Economic Espionage Laws, “addresses economic espionage laws and the regulation of fraudulent filing of corporate, import-export, and banking documentation” in sixteen countries. The report consists of a comparative summary followed by individual country surveys for sixteen countries. The countries surveyed are Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, India, Israel, …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Robert Brammer
In this video, Nathan Dorn, the curator of the Law Library’s rare book collection, discusses a recent acquisition, a 14th-century manuscript of Registrum Brevium, a copy of the register of writs that were used to initiate litigation in medieval England.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Anna Price
Spooky season approaches! For some, part of October will be spent gearing up for Halloween and Día de Muertos. Others may be excited about the cooler weather and fall recipes. Maybe “pumpkin spice season” will be observed where you live. Regardless of your October plans, we hope you make time to join us for some …
Posted in: Education, Law Library
Posted by: Heather Casey
A few months ago, I read an absolutely fascinating book on early human societies, “The Dawn of Everything.” Co-authored by David Graeber and David Wengrow, this book offers a critique of popular views on western civilization and the traditional narratives of mankind’s linear development from primitivism to civilization. It is a long book, but I …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Robert Brammer
The Global Legal Monitor is a publication of the Law Library of Congress that covers legal news and developments from around the world. In an effort to ensure the Global Legal Monitor is accessible to all of our patrons, we have added ReadSpeaker to each article. After you select an article, just click "listen to this page" at the top, left-hand side of the screen to have the article read aloud to you.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Today we are introducing the beta Congress.gov API. We are very excited about this release and a great deal of hard work, behind the scenes has gone on this year to enable this to happen.
Posted in: Congress
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The following is a guest post by Grislean Palacios, who served as a summer 2022 remote intern transcribing and researching documents in the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. Special thanks to Francisco Macías for translation and analysis assistance. The Herencia Crowdsourcing Campaign collection includes historic documents dealing with criminal cases, real …
Posted in: Collections, Guest Post, Law Library