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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This Women’s History Month, we look back to women who worked to advance women’s suffrage. One such notable figure is Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, who worked to advance the rights of Native peoples and women, particularly Indigenous women. Born in 1863 in Pembina, North Dakota as a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans, Women's History
Posted by: Taylor Gulatsi
Today's blog post highlights the upcoming Foreign and Comparative Law webinar on data protection laws in Italy on April 18 at 2:00 PM EDT.
Posted in: Collections, Education, Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog posts gives an overview of the newly published Law Library report on the regulation of assisted dying in select European jurisdictions with a focus on whether specific diseases, in particular Parkinson’s disease, were discussed during the parliamentary debates or invoked as a reason for passing the respective laws.
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The first phase of this project was the modernization of the exchange of Executive and Other Communications data. Executive and Other Communications are messages sent to the chambers by the President, executive branch officials, state or local governments, private citizens, and other entities.
Posted in: Congress
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
For St. Patrick's Day and National Irish-American Heritage Month, Bailey looks into the collections to learn a bit more about how Irish-American culture manifested in the United States, immigration law that affected it, and Congressional recognition of the Irish Free State in the 1920s.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Taylor Gulatsi
Join us in April for the upcoming U.S. Law Webinars for an Orientation to Legal Research Webinar and an Introduction to Congress.gov webinar.
Posted in: Collections, Education, Event, Law Library
Posted by: Robert Brammer
This post promotes the new features added to Congress.gov in March of 2024.
Posted in: Congress
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog posts introduces the newly published Law Library reports "Australia: Offshore Processing of Asylum Seekers" and "European Union: New Pact on Migration and Asylum."
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
As you some of you may know, the Congressional Globe is one of the many historical document treasures that is part of the legacy Century of Lawmaking website. The Globe, as it is usually called, contains the congressional debates of the 23rd through 42nd Congresses (1833-73). The Congress.gov team has been working on a multi-phase modernization of the content on this website which includes Congressional Legislation, Annals of Congress, the Globe, and Register of Debates as well as Senate, House, and Executive Journals.
Posted in: Congress