Join Codicologist Dr. Ilya Dines on June 22 at 2:00pm for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar on Medieval European Legal Manuscripts And What They Are Telling Us
This is a guest post by Kayahan Cantekin, a foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. We are proud to announce that our new multi-jurisdiction report on mechanisms employed to fund immigration agencies in selected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries is now available on law.gov. The report …
In Washington, D.C., we will be springing forward into daylight saving time in March. Celebrate the time change by attending one of our webinars from our recurring series of classes regarding U.S. legal research, with our orientation to legal research webinar focusing on federal legislative history. In our orientation to law library collections webinar, we …
The following is a guest post by Michael Mellifera, a digital collection specialist in the Digital Resources Division at the Law Library of Congress. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Law Library of Congress has been collecting foreign official gazettes and maintains the largest collection of these sources in the entire world. The Law Library’s gazette collection …
This is a guest post by the Law Librarian of Congress, Aslihan Bulut. Dear In Custodia Legis readers and Law Library of Congress patrons, colleagues, and friends: As this year comes to a close and we look forward to the new year, I wanted to thank each and every one of you for such unwavering and …
The Law Library of Congress invites applications for the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Scholars Program. The purpose of this program is to fund a scholar whose research will draw upon the Law Library’s world-class collections, target new acquisitions, and leverage the Law Library’s staff expertise. The focus of the program is to create new research …
We celebrate many commemorative days, weeks, and holidays at the Law Library of Congress, from Public Service Recognition Week to Constitution Day. One week that is particularly dear to our hearts is National Library Week. Each April, libraries across America celebrate the important work of libraries and librarians, and the countless ways in which they …