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Archive: December 2022 (20 Posts)

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Upcoming US Law Webinars – January 2023

Posted by: Kelly Goles

As we ring in 2023, the Law Library is excited to welcome researchers back to our webinar series on U.S. legal research. Our first class of the new year will provide an overview of U.S. case law research. The second webinar will be an orientation to the collections of the Law Library, with a focus …

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Legal Contradictions for the Enslaved in 18th Century Mexico: The Case of Lorenzo Zabala

Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux

The following is a guest post by Drue Edney, an intern in the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress through the Library of Congress Internship program (LOCI). Note: this post uses a pejorative term as it originally appears in the collection item. During my internship at the Law Library of Congress, I have had the …

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Watch a Recording of Our 2022 Constitution Day Event

Posted by: Kelly Goles

On September 14, we held our annual Constitution Day event. This year’s event featured Harvard Law School William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law emeritus Mark Tushnet in an interview with University of Virginia School of Law Dean Risa Goluboff. Professor Tushnet and Dean Goluboff discussed Professor Tushnet’s book on the Hughes-era United States Supreme Court, The Hughes Court: …