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Cuban Law – Global Legal Collection Highlights

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

The following is a guest post by Gustavo Guerra, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress. This post is part of our Global Legal Collection Highlights series in which we provide information on some of the foreign law materials available to researchers at the Library of Congress. Gustavo has previously written posts on …

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Nigeria Election Laws – Global Legal Collection Highlights

Posted by: Hanibal Goitom

This post is part of our Global Legal Collection Highlights series. It is election season in Nigeria.  As I noted in my recent post, barring any changes to the schedule, Nigeria will hold presidential and National Assembly elections on March 28, 2015.  Nigeria will also hold elections for state house assemblies as well as gubernatorial …

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An Interview with Suneewan Creech, Library Technician

Posted by: Betty Lupinacci

This week’s interview is with Suneewan Creech, the newest technician in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library.  Although she’s not really new, Ms. Creech has been a contractor at the Law Library since 2008, managing the contract accessioning new materials into the collection.  We are very happy to add her to our staff. …

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An Interview with Kenneth W. Mack, Inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law

Posted by: Liah Caravalho

Today’s interview is with Kenneth W. Mack, inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law at Harvard University.  Prof. Mack was a speaker at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival, where he discussed his book, Representing the Race:  The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer.  He is also the co-editor of The New Black:  …

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Alaskan Tribes Added to the Indigenous Law Portal

Posted by: Tina Gheen

Alaska has now been added to the Indigenous Law Portal on Law.gov. As I mentioned last summer, the Indigenous Law Portal is a free resource that brings together digitized collection materials from the Law Library of Congress as well as links to tribal websites and primary source materials found on the web. We have added …

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Nairobi Shipment

Posted by: Betty Lupinacci

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas in the Processing Section of the Law Library. Monday morning we received five large boxes shipped from the Nairobi field office of the Library of Congress. It’s always fun when these deliveries arrive as we never know what we’ll find. The last shipment from Nairobi was mostly …