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Posted by: Kelly Goles
The Law Library's Global Legal Research Directorate has a newly published report available, entitled "Foreigners' right to real property ownership"
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Sarah Friedman
Clara Barton is well known as the “angel of the battlefield,” who tended to wounded soldiers during the Civil War, but she also played an important role in the United States’ entry into an international treaty. Following the Geneva Conference of 1863, the first treaty of the Geneva Convention was ratified by 12 nations in …
Posted in: Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The Congress.gov enhancements for December of 2023.
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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
The Law Library of Congress recently published a new legal report, titled: "School Bus Safety Requirements: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, Iceland, Mexico, Russia, United Arab Emirates."
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Ruth Levush
Law Library report on "Legal Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors" Published. It provides information on the laws that apply to the protection and restrictions on eligibility for asylum for unaccompanied minors.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Alea Al-Aghbari
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, Looking into the Past: Space Telescopes and the Law of …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This FALQ post gives an overview of the ICC, the Rome Statute, the crimes that can be tried, and examples of recent cases.
Posted in: Frequently Asked Legal Questions (FALQ), Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
On March 30, 2023, the Vatican issued a joint statement repudiating the “doctrine of discovery” and terra nullius. The doctrine of discovery was used as the legal foundation for taking the land of Indigenous people by Europeans, and for the establishment of residential schools; as Justice Marshall wrote, “The European governments asserted the exclusive right …
Posted in: Collections, In the News, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Jennifer González
Our summer 2023 Creative Digital Publications project teaches students to write articles for potential publication on this blog. Read for a description of the project and the people in two of our groups.
Posted in: Interview, Law Library