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A Guide to Chinese Legal Research: Official Online Publication of Chinese Law (Update)

Posted by: Laney Zhang

Last year, I blogged about two online sources that are designated by China‘s 2015 revised Law on Legislation to officially publish Chinese laws, regulations, and rules (collectively “legislative documents”): National People’s Congress (NPC) website: designated by article 58 of the Law on Legislation to publish laws adopted by the NPC and its Standing Committee; and Chinese Government …

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Intern Cecilia Contreras Discusses Her Work with Law Library Special Collections

Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux

The following is a guest post by Cecilia Contreras, an intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. As an intern with the Digital Resources Division through the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities National Internship Program (HNIP), I was given the opportunity to work with a collection of miscellaneous legal …

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Construction of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

Posted by: Betty Lupinacci

One of our contractors, Jeremy Gainey, found a random volume of the Laws of the Corporation of the City of Washington passed by the first-[sixty-eighth] Council in the stacks. The book in question is from the Twenty-Sixth Council held in 1828-1829. Anyone who reads this blog regularly may recall that I really enjoy looking though …

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Rare Book Video – The Articles of Confederation

Posted by: Robert Brammer

On this day in 1777, the first Constitution of the United States, the Articles of Confederation, was adopted by the Continental Congress. Our latest rare book video features the first printing of the Articles of Confederation. This item is held by the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.

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Spanish Legal Documents (15th – 19th Centuries): Laws and Statutes; Notarial Instruments

Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux

The following post was written in collaboration with Dante Figueroa, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Today we bring you another big update from our Spanish Legal Documents series. For more on the history of this collection, as well as our ongoing efforts to present the full collection online, see our previous posts describing …

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Library of Congress and U.S. Government Publishing Office Digitizing U.S. Congressional Serial Set

Posted by: Donna Sokol

The Law Library of Congress, in collaboration with the U.S. Government Publishing Office, has started a large multi-year effort to digitize and make accessible volumes of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set dating back to the first volume published in 1817. The U.S. Congressional Serial Set is an official, bound collection of reports and documents of …