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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Last Friday, the Parliament of Australia launched its new website, replacing the one that had been in place for 12 years. I had often used the old website to find a range of information on bills and parliamentary inquiries (i.e., investigations into particular issues). This includes explanatory memoranda (according to the glossary on the new …
Posted in: Global Law, Gov 2.0
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
At the start of this month I (along with several of my Global Legal Research Center colleagues) attended a very engaging and thought-provoking presentation by Professor John Witte, Jr. titled “Sharia in the West? What Place for Faith-Based Family Laws in Liberal Democracies?” Professor Witte recently completed his term as the Cary and Ann Maguire …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Over the past two years – it was the two year birthday of In Custodia Legis on August 2 – I have written a number of blog posts on matters relating to the laws of different countries of the Pacific region. I try to select topics that are interesting and a bit different, and also …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Blog post about the ill-fated ship, the Port-au-Prince, that landed in Tonga in 1806 and the legal claims to its treasure
Posted in: Collections, Education, Global Law, In the News, Law Library, Pacific Islander History
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Last week, in the course of researching a Global Legal Monitor article about the possibility of New Zealand introducing a law requiring plain packaging of cigarettes, I discovered that the New Zealand Legislation website has recently been updated! Such things are quite exciting to some of us here at the Law Library, as you may …
Posted in: Global Law