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 …
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 …
On Tuesday, June 28, 2022, at 1 p.m. EDT, legal reference librarian Louis Myers will present our next Lunch and Learn Webinar, “An Overview of Public International Law.” Please register here. This webinar will provide an introduction to the five sources of international law, as defined by article 38 of the Statute of the International …
On February 10, 2022, at 2pm EST, Foreign Law Specialist George Sadek will present our next Foreign and Comparative Law webinar, “Illegal Migration in the Central and Western Mediterranean from the Perspective of International and Domestic Law.” Please register here. Illegal migration in the central and western Mediterranean is not just an important legal topic but also …
On October 27th, we held the 2022 Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence. This year, Dr. Jeffrey Stout was our featured speaker, presenting his lecture titled “The Tree of Democratic Liberty.” About the Kellogg Lecture The Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence presents the most distinguished contributors to international jurisprudence, judged through writings, reputation, and broad and …
The following is a guest post by Louis Myers, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. Louis has authored several blog posts for In Custodia Legis, including New Acquisition: The Trial of Governor Picton, A Case of Torture in Trinidad, Indigenous Law Research Strategies: Settlement Acts and Looking into the Past: Space Telescopes and the Law of Outer …
This is a guest post by the Law Librarian of Congress, Aslihan Bulut. Dear In Custodia Legis readers and Law Library of Congress patrons, colleagues, and friends: As this year comes to a close and we look forward to the new year, I wanted to thank each and every one of you for such unwavering and …
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 …
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: …