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Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This pic of the week shows the "Alabama room" in Geneva, Switzerland, where the Alabama arbitration between the United States and Britain took place in 1872.
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Posted by: Jennifer González
In summer 2023, the Law Library of Congress added foreign legal gazettes for the countries of Philippines, Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Botswana.
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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 …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
In spring 2023, the Law Library of Congress added foreign legal gazettes for the countries of Costa Rica, Gabon, and Ecuador.
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Posted by: Jennifer González
In winter 2023, the Law Library of Congress added foreign legal gazettes for the countries of Tunisia, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and the Mexican states of Coahuila de Zaragoza, Jalisco, and Colima.
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Posted by: Jennifer González
King Henry IV of England forbade transmutation, a principle of alchemy, in the Act Against Multiplication of 1404.
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Posted by: Jennifer González
In fall 2022, the Law Library of Congress added foreign legal gazettes for the countries of Niger, New Caledonia, Suriname, Cabo Verde, and the Cook Islands.
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
A look at the most viewed global legal monitor posts and legal research reports
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