While 2026 has just rolled in, we are excited to share the most-viewed blog posts of 2025. We published 124 new posts to this blog, In Custodia Legis, in 2025. These posts are authored by staff, both on the blog team and guest bloggers, as well as intern bloggers, from across different parts of the Law Library and the Library of Congress. The blog team features representatives from our team of reference librarians, foreign law specialists, staff who manage our physical and digital collections, as well as those who work on events and outreach. In an effort to introduce our team to our readers, we have also published interviews with various interns and staff, as well as guests and colleagues, and featured interesting pictures in our Pic of the Week series, which showcases staff travels and collection items.
As always, we hope you have enjoyed reading the posts as much as we have enjoyed writing them, and that you will continue to visit the blog. No need to fret if you missed a post; you can catch up by browsing through the different months and categories, or even by looking at what particular authors have contributed.
Here are the top 10 posts that received the most views in 2025, with number one being the top-viewed post:
10. What “Haute Couture” Really Means in French Law
9. Modernizing Congressional Data – Statute Compilations are a Gift to Researchers
8. A Voice from the South: Dr. Anna Julia Cooper
7. A History of Self-Representation and How H.H. Holmes Represented Himself in His Criminal Trial
6. Introducing House Roll Call Votes in the Congress.gov API
5. Understanding Thai Names: Law and Culture
4. FALQs: Regulation of Cryptocurrencies in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries – Part Two
3. Improved Public Access to CRS Reports on Congress.gov
1. FALQs: Regulation of Cryptocurrencies in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries – Part One
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