The following is a guest post by Clare Feikert-Ahalt, a senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering the United Kingdom and several other jurisdictions. Clare has written numerous posts for In Custodia Legis, including Revealing the Presence of Ghosts; Weird Laws, or Urban Legends?; FALQs: Brexit Referendum; 100 Years of “Poppy Day” in the United Kingdom; and 100 Year Anniversary …
This past November, I had the opportunity to visit Ha Long Bay, in Vietnam. In 1994, UNESCO designated Ha Long Bay as a World Heritage site, under criteria vii and viii. These criteria apply to sites that “contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance” and that are “outstanding examples …
On June 15, 1869, Arabella Belle Mansfield took the bar examination for the state of Iowa and and later that year became the first woman admitted to a state bar in the United States.
Today's blog post is about the Netherlands Carillon, gifted to the United States by the Netherlands to express gratitude for America’s aid to the Dutch people during and after World War II.
This blog post discusses piracy and its modern application, especially concerning the corroboration with pirates in title 18, chapter 81 of the United States Code; 1651-1657 and the case United States v. Ali (2012).
