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Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
The Law Library of Congress has decided to provide a little outlet for my genius personality to shine through in the form of a blog. I have sat and pondered what to write about for the past few days now, after conveniently unfortunately being out of town on vacation during the launch week. Whilst there …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Following on from my previous post, another part of what we do is write articles for the Law Library’s Global Legal Monitor: The Global Legal Monitor is an online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and developments worldwide. It is updated frequently and draws on information from the Global Legal Information Network, official …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Back before the 18th Edition of The Bluebook was published, we were asked to help revamp table T.2 Foreign Jurisdictions. We have a great group of almost two dozen foreign law specialists (that Kelly previously mentioned) who come from around the world to work at the Law Library of Congress. In other words, we have the …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
While the Law Library does employ a number of legal reference librarians as well as collections staff and other people that work with our huge book stacks (approximately two American football fields under our building!), there are quite a few of us that don’t have a background in library or information sciences (although I did work at …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library