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Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This year, Switzerland celebrates 50 years of women’s suffrage. In a referendum held on February 7, 1971, 65.7 % of (male) voters approved the right of Swiss women to vote and stand for election at the federal level. As a result, article 74 of the Swiss Constitution was amended to state in paragraph 1: Bei …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Ruth Levush
The following is a guest post by Dr. Goran Seferovic. Goran is a senior research associate at the University of Zurich’s Institute of Law and has been our scholar in residence at the Law Library of Congress this past summer. Goran is conducting research on direct democracy and intends to publish a book on this subject. You can read …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The Law Library is happy to announce that our collection of legacy and contemporary reports has grown to over 4,000. This summer, we plan to announce a new update to our crowdsourcing campaign, with the release of several hundred additional digitized reports that were published over the last couple years and which would benefit greatly from volunteer transcriptions to help ensure accurate full-text searchability of our collection.
Posted in: Law Library, Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog post introduces the recently published report "Asylum Application Processes" of the Law Library of Congress, which reviews the asylum application processes in nine selected jurisdictions, in particular processes involved in determining whether an asylum seeker is in need of international protection.
Posted in: Law Library, Global Law
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Michael Chalupovitsch, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada and Caribbean jurisdictions. The Law Library of Congress recently published its report, Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases, which provides a comparative analysis of antitrust and competition cases concerning the pharmaceutical industry in 12 jurisdictions. The jurisdictions covered by this report include Australia, …
Posted in: Law Library, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, the assistant law librarian for legal research at the Law Library of Congress and the director of the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Directorate. Currently meeting in Egypt, the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27, is discussing how to address climate change and mitigate its consequences. One of …
Posted in: Law Library, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Michael Chalupovitsch, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada and Caribbean jurisdictions. A recently published Law Library of Congress report, Mass Timber Construction, examines the use of mass timber, also known as cross-laminated timber, in the construction of buildings in ten countries. According to Natural Resources Canada, mass timber …
Posted in: Law Library, Global Law
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Erika Hope Spencer discusses avenues for research in Library of Congress collections on the subject of Witchcraft.
Posted in: Law Library, Collections, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This post recounts the history of 3 early modern trials of LGBTQ people.
Posted in: Law Library, Collections, LGBTQ