Today's blog post in an interview with an intern at the Law Library of Congress, Esther Markov, who works alongside Assistant Law Librarian for Legal Research, Peter Roudik.
Today’s interview is with Ali Ebshara, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist George Sadek in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Kuwait, where I spent most of my summers reading indoors because it was too hot to go outside. I …
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Boomer, an international law consultant in the Global Legal Research Directorate. Elizabeth has previously written for In Custodia Legis on Technology & the Law of Corporate Responsibility – The Impact of Blockchain, 30th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, and United Nations …
This is a guest post by Elizabeth Boomer, an international law consultant in the Global Legal Research Directorate. Elizabeth has previously written for In Custodia Legis on Technology & the Law of Corporate Responsibility – The Impact of Blockchain, and the 30th Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Tomorrow, …
November is celebrated as National American Indian Heritage Month in the United States. In addition to our guide to Indigenous Law Resources online for U.S.-centric sources on indigenous law, the Law Library also holds a number of international and foreign law resources on indigenous law in other countries. For instance, earlier this year, the Global Legal …
This is part two of a two part blog post that describes the changing status of the Chagos Archipelago, in particular the recently signed treaty returning its sovereignty from the United Kingdom (UK) to Mauritius and the long term lease for a joint UK-US military base on the island.