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Posted by: Kelly Goles
A look at the most viewed global legal monitor posts and legal research reports
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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. Join us on January 26 at 2 p.m. EST for our next foreign, comparative, and international law webinar titled, “Indigenous Governance in the Circumpolar Arctic.” Please register here. With the ongoing effects of climate change, the Arctic …
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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
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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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