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Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
There are 29 independent jurisdictions where French is an official language. A new map shows how the civil code applies in these jurisdictions.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Back in January, Nicolas kicked off our ”FALQs” (aka “Frequently Asked Legal Questions“) series with a post on terrorism in France. He was asked on Twitter to continue the series with a post on freedom of speech in France. He has previously blogged about ”How Sunday Came to be a Day of Rest in France,” “Napoleon Bonaparte …
Posted in: Frequently Asked Legal Questions (FALQ), Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Looking for a good legal dictionary? Well the Law Library has over 4200 of them, covering countries and languages from Chinese to Estonian to Cameroon. Many of these titles contain more than one language. So you could even draft your motion, translate it to French, and then from French to Portuguese, if you were so …
Posted in: Collections, Education
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in the Processing Section of the Law Library. Monday morning we received five large boxes shipped from the Nairobi field office of the Library of Congress. It’s always fun when these deliveries arrive as we never know what we’ll find. The last shipment from Nairobi was mostly …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Andrew Weber
We recently started to do some user testing on our website, Law.gov. It has been interesting to listen to the feedback because I know the answers and sometimes people are close but miss what I can clearly see. I’m sitting in my office occasionally saying things to the screen (while my phone is muted). I have sat …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Today’s interview is with John “Trot” Trotman. John is working in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library of Congress as part of the institution’s Junior Fellows Program. The program’s focus is to increase access to our collections for our various patron groups. Describe your background: I grew up in Chesapeake, Virginia and went …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Donna Sokol
Today’s interview is with Jessica Ho-Wo-Cheong, an intern with the Global Legal Research Directorate’s Foreign, Comparative, and International Division I. Describe your background. I am a proud Canadian, born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. I just graduated from l’Université de Montreal with a civil law degree. Beforehand I completed my undergraduate degree at McGill University, Honors …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This week’s interview is with Wilfried Tchangoue, a summer intern working in the Global Legal Research Center of the Law Library of Congress. It is part of a series of interviews that introduce our summer interns to In Custodia Legis readers. Enjoy! Describe your background My parents are from Cameroon but I was born in …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
As part of my daily duties on the Global Legal Research team at the Law Library of Congress, I recently had to look into the issue of gender-based violence in Kenya and South Africa. In the course of this exercise, I noticed that despite various law reform initiatives to strengthen laws designed to prevent certain …
Posted in: Global Law