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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Nathan discusses trial by ordeal and the dangers of too much judicial combat in the works of Friedrich Majer
Posted in: Law Library, Collections
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
Bailey visits the German-American Friendship Garden on the National Mall one morning and observes the commemoration of friendly international relations through nature and the law.
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog post describes the achievements of the German lawyer and judge Lore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit on the occasion of her death at the age of 90 in September 2023.
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Women's History
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: Law Library, Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog post is an interview with Foreign Law Intern Laura Schwarz.
Posted in: Law Library, Interview
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: Law Library, Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Today's blog post brings us an insightful and educational history of the first Muslim printer in the Ottoman Empire, Ibrahim Müteferrika.
Posted in: Law Library, Collections, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog post announces the upcoming foreign, comparative, and international law webinar titled "Climate Change Litigation in Europe and Australia" on July 27, 2023.
Posted in: Law Library, Event
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The Law Library is happy to announce that our collection of legacy and contemporary reports has grown to over 4,000. This summer, we plan to announce a new update to our crowdsourcing campaign, with the release of several hundred additional digitized reports that were published over the last couple years and which would benefit greatly from volunteer transcriptions to help ensure accurate full-text searchability of our collection.
Posted in: Law Library, Collections, Global Law