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Upcoming US Law Webinars – August 2024

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It is hard to believe that August is almost here! The Law Library of Congress is happy to offer additional educational webinars for the final month of summer. The Law Library ’s next offering in its Orientation to Legal Research Webinar Series will focus on an overview of tracing federal regulations.

The Law Library staff will also host a webinar detailing a basic overview of Congress.gov. The presentation will discuss how to research federal legislation and highlight recent updates to the site. More information about the content of both webinars and registration links can be found below.


Orientation to Legal Research Webinar: Tracing Federal Regulations

Date: Thursday, August 8, 2024, 1:00 p.m. EDT – 2:00 p.m. EDT

Content: This webinar will provide an overview of U.S. federal regulations, including information about the notice and comment rulemaking process; the publication and citation of regulations; and the tracing of regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations, to the proposed rule in the Federal Register, to the regulation’s docket.

Instructor: Ann Hemmens – senior legal reference librarian. Ann holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and earned her J.D. and Master of Science in library science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Register here.


An Introduction to Congress.gov Webinar

Date: Thursday, August 22, 2024, 2:00 p.m. EDT – 3:00 p.m. EDT

Content: This orientation is designed to give a basic overview of Congress.gov. While the focus of the session will be searching legislation and the congressional member information attached to the legislation, the new features of Congress.gov will also be highlighted.

Instructors: Barbara Bavis and Robert Brammer. Barbara is the bibliographic and research instruction librarian at the Law Library. She holds a B.A. in history from Duke University, a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, and a Master of Science in library and information science specializing in law librarianship from Catholic University. Robert is the chief of the Law Library’s Office of External Relations. He holds a B.A. in political science from the University of Kentucky, a J.D. from Wayne State University, and a Master of Library Science from Florida State University.

Register here.


To learn about other upcoming classes on domestic and foreign law topics, visit the Legal Research Institute.

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Comments (2)

  1. Thanks for improving information about/access to your excellent webinars. It had been frustrating to see those “join us!” messages for webinars that were held days or weeks ago. I’ve now bookmarked the links to the past ones that I missed and the the ones that are coming up.

    Good job!

  2. Can you send these library of congress blogs about a month earlier because you sent them to me with this month is almost over and i cant register for events now over Thank You

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