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Archive: January 2023 (7 Posts)

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An Interview with Seongryeol (Ryan) Park, Foreign Law Intern

Posted by: Kelly Goles

Today’s interview is with Seongryeol (Ryan) Park, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Sayuri Umeda in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Seoul, the capital city of the Republic of Korea (South Korea; ‘ROK’). I took the North Korean threat for granted …

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New Law Library of Congress Report Examines Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases

Posted by: Kelly Goles

The following is a guest post by Michael Chalupovitsch, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada and Caribbean jurisdictions. The Law Library of Congress recently published its report, Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases, which provides a comparative analysis of antitrust and competition cases concerning the pharmaceutical industry in 12 jurisdictions. The jurisdictions covered by this report include Australia, …

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What Not to Wear: Clothing Rationing During World War II

Posted by: Kelly Goles

The following is a guest post by Lauren Krauskopf, a former intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She was a double major in government & politics and History at the University of Maryland, College Park. On January 16, 1942, just over one month after the attack on Pearl Harbor …

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Join Us on 1/26 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar: Indigenous Governance in the Circumpolar Arctic

Posted by: Kelly Goles

The following is a guest post by Michael Chalupovitsch, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada and Caribbean jurisdictions. Join us on January 26 at 2 p.m. EST for our next foreign, comparative, and international law webinar titled, “Indigenous Governance in the Circumpolar Arctic.” Please register here. With the ongoing effects of climate change, the Arctic …

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Preserving the Past: The National Register of Historic Places

Posted by: Kelly Goles

The following is a guest post by Emily Beran, a former intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She studied library and information science at the University of Washington.  What do The Hoover Dam, Walden Pond, and Palace Amusements all have in common? These three locations – and over 96,000 …

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The Most Viewed In Custodia Legis Posts of 2022

Posted by: Kelly Goles

This past year, we published more than 240 new posts on this blog, In Custodia Legis. These posts come from many authors, both on the blog team and guest bloggers, as well as intern bloggers, from across different parts of the Law Library and the Library of Congress. The blog team features representatives from our team of reference librarians, …