This blog article details the legal history of mitigating urban rats in New York City, including the 2022 Rat Action Plan and various rat-specific local laws.
This blog article explores the lives of women in the prohibition era, during which some women became public drinkers, bootleggers, and Prohibition agents for the first time.
This article describes federal observances created by Congress and Presidents, how they are different from legal public holidays, and examples of well-known and unique observances.
On June 15, 1869, Arabella Belle Mansfield took the bar examination for the state of Iowa and and later that year became the first woman admitted to a state bar in the United States.
Our summer 2023 Creative Digital Publications project teaches students to write articles for potential publication on this blog. Read for a description of the project and the people in two of our groups.
Our summer 2023 Creative Digital Publications project teaches students to write articles for potential publication on this blog. Read for a description of the project and the people in two of our groups.
One of our spring 2023 projects is working on the CRS Bill Summaries and this is a description of the project and the volunteers and interns that are making it happen.