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Posted by: Barbara Bavis
The third installment of our Rare Book Video series focuses on an item that is included as an entry in our Piracy Trials collection on Law.gov–The Arraignment, tryal, and condemnation of Captain William Kidd, for murther and piracy, upon six several indictments, at the Admiralty-Sessions, held by His Majesty’s commission at the Old-Baily, on Thursday …
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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
Today, December 6, marks Independence Day in Finland. Although Finland is known as “the land of a thousand lakes,” it is also the most heavily-forested country in Europe. Around 72% of Finland’s land area is covered by forests, whereas 10% of the country is covered by lakes. With 60% of Finnish forests being classified as privately-owned forests, it …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Jennifer González
The Law Library of Congress has digitized a collection of National Transportation Safety Board decisions, orders, and petitions. The years of the decisions span from 1973-1982, with the majority falling between 1977 and 1981. Other decisions can be found on the N.T.S.B.’s Document Management System. The National Transportation Safety Board (N.T.S.B.) conducts independent accident investigations …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
National Entrepreneur’s Day is a commemorative day to encourage innovative business people creating new jobs and economic growth in the United States. Today’s holiday was created by presidential proclamation and first celebrated in November 2010; an enthusiastic startup lobbied for the day. As the commemoration falls right before Small Business Saturday, the timing could not …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
A brief description of the Indian Child Welfare Act and a list of resources for those researching the ICWA.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Ruth Levush
Many have written about the importance of parental love for a child’s emotional development. But what happens when a father resents fatherhood? As I am not a psychologist, I will not address the mental health implications of such sad circumstances for the child or for the father. Rejection of paternity, however, raises a serious legal …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This post describes the life of Dolores Huerta on the occasion of Hispanic Heritage Month.
Posted in: Collections, Hispanic American History, Law Library
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
The following is a guest post by Marianna Stell. Marianna works in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress. In sixteenth-century Paris, a woman did not choose to become a printer. For a woman to learn the craft of printing, she had to be one of two things: the daughter …
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Posted by: Ruth Levush
The following is a guest post by Dante Figueroa, a senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Dante has contributed a number of In Custodia Legis blog posts, including on The Rehabilitation of Dante Alighieri, Seven Centuries Later, Resources and Treasures of the Italian Parliamentary Libraries, Legislation Protecting Italian Cultural Heritage, Proposed Anti-Sect Legislation …
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