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Posted by: Sarah Friedman
Sarah discusses a display of children’s books about the six women who have served as justices of the United States Supreme Court.
Posted in: Collections, Federal Judiciary, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This post discusses the origin of Orange Shirt Day, the Department of the Interior's investigation into Indian residential schools in the United States and the intergenerational trauma caused by the cultural assimilation and land dispossession policies of the United States.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Kelly Goles
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 100 Years of “Poppy Day” in the United Kingdom; Weird Laws, or Urban Legends?; FALQs: Brexit Referendum; and The UK’s Legal Response to the London …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
The Law Library recently published a new report on the protection of children online. The report, titled Children’s Online Privacy and Data Protection, surveys ten jurisdictions on the special measures they have put in place to protect children online. The jurisdictions are the European Union (EU) member states of Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Spain, …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
Overview of the Welsh Bill on Children (Abolition of Defence of Reasonable Punishment) which, if enacted, will prohibit all corporal punishment of children in Wales.
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
July 1 2019, marks the 40th anniversary of the explicit prohibition of corporal punishment of children in Sweden.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This post is coauthored by Jenny Gesley and Sayuri Umeda, foreign law specialists at the Global Legal Research Center. At some point or another, all of us have been exposed to children’s noise, be it as a parent or a neighbor, at the playground or at a school. And did we not wish for the noise …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
To secure the basic needs of children, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on November 20, 1989, the 30th anniversary of its Declaration of the Rights of the Child. The Convention went into force on September 2, 1990 when enough nations ratified it. Currently, 196 nations have ratified the …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This post is by Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist who covers Japan and various other East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. She has previously written posts for In Custodia Legis on various topics, including testing of older drivers in Japan, English translations of post-World War II South Korean laws, laws and regulations passed in the aftermath …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post