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Posted by: Kelly McKenna
The following is a guest post by Stephen Mayeaux, Legal Information Specialist in the Digital Resources Division at the Law Library of Congress, in collaboration with Dante Figueroa, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. During this celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we bring you the latest—and by far the largest—update from our Spanish …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s Pic of the Week is another in an occasional series featuring odd and/or outdated library equipment: a label cutter.
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Celebrating activist Maggie Kuhn's 114th birthday with a short legal history on elder and retirement advances during her life.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
Today’s Pic of the Week is a resolution, contained in a special supplement to the official gazette of Egypt, that can be roughly translated as a resolution from the Prime Minister, “Issuing the Administrative Regulations for the Law Concerning Persons with Disabilities.” …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
July 1 2019, marks the 40th anniversary of the explicit prohibition of corporal punishment of children in Sweden.
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Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
The following is a guest post by Stephen Mayeaux, Legal Information Specialist in the Digital Resources Division at the Law Library of Congress. Today we bring you the latest update from our Spanish Legal Documents series. For more information about the history of this collection, as well as our ongoing work to make it fully available …
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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
On June 21, 2019, Greenland celebrates its national day, 40 years after adopting the Home Rule Act in 1979 and 10 years after the Self-Government Act of 2009.
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Today’s interview is with Sophie Higgerson. Sophie is a Junior Fellow in the Collection Services Division at the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I grew in Vermont and Rhode Island, but went to middle and high school in New Hampshire. Since I moved to Virginia for college, I have found it is easiest …
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Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Our latest rare book video features the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century treatise used to try persons accused of witchcraft.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library