FALQs: The Conscription System of South Korea
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
A post about the South Korean system of military conscription and how it should apply to pop stars
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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
A post about the South Korean system of military conscription and how it should apply to pop stars
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Louis Myers, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. Louis has authored several blog posts for In Custodia Legis, including New Acquisition: The Trial of Governor Picton, A Case of Torture in Trinidad, Indigenous Law Research Strategies: Settlement Acts and Looking into the Past: Space Telescopes and the Law of Outer …
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Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog posts examines the legal status of title of nobilities in Germany and whether name changes in another EU country adding German tokens of nobility to a last name have to be recognized under German law.
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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
Denmark, Norway, and Sweden have many members of their royal families, but the royal houses are steadily and purposefully being slimmed down.
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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
This blog posts describes legislation that created the Finnish Baby Box.
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Michael Chalupovitsch, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada and Caribbean jurisdictions. A recently published Law Library of Congress report, entitled Canada: the Emergencies Act, examines the history and operation of emergency legislation at the federal level in Canada. The genesis of the Emergencies Act was the need …
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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
This post addresses both the history surrounding the Gränna Polkagris and the EU geographical indication protections rules.
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, the assistant law librarian for legal research at the Law Library of Congress and the director of the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Directorate. Currently meeting in Egypt, the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27, is discussing how to address climate change and mitigate its consequences. One of …
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Michael Chalupovitsch, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada and Caribbean jurisdictions. A recently published Law Library of Congress report, Mass Timber Construction, examines the use of mass timber, also known as cross-laminated timber, in the construction of buildings in ten countries. According to Natural Resources Canada, mass timber …
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