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Posted by: Ruth Levush
Law Library report on "Legal Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors" Published. It provides information on the laws that apply to the protection and restrictions on eligibility for asylum for unaccompanied minors.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Today’s interview is with Gerard Mosolo, a legal research fellow currently working in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Binga, in the north region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). After elementary school, I went to a Catholic boarding …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
In summer 2023, the Law Library of Congress added foreign legal gazettes for the countries of Philippines, Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Botswana.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
In 2020, the Swedish Police solved a 16-year-old cold case using forensic genetic genealogy, a first for the country. Following the conviction, the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection found that there was no legal basis for using investigative genetic genealogy. Earlier in 2023, the Danish and Swedish parliaments both voted on whether the police should have …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Alea Al-Aghbari
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, Looking into the Past: Space Telescopes and the Law of …
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Posted by: Alea Al-Aghbari
This is a guest post by Kayahan Cantekin, a foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Kayahan has previously blogged about Law Library reports, including Immigration Agency Funding Mechanisms, Turkish Presidential Decrees, Service of Process, and Civic Education Models. We are proud to announce that our new multi-jurisdiction report Regulation of …
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Posted by: Laney Zhang
Today's blog post is an interview with foreign law intern in the Global Legal Research Directorate at the Law Library of Congress, Yuechao Nie.
Posted in: Global Law, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Ruth Levush
Please join us on September 28, 2023, at 2 p.m. EDT for our next foreign, comparative, and international law webinar titled, “Israel’s Legal Reforms.” This webinar is the latest installment in the Law Library’s Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series. Please register here. On January 4, 2023, Israel’s Minister of Justice Yariv Levin introduced a comprehensive …
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Posted by: Taylor Gulatsi
The following is a post by foreign law specialist Tariq Ahmad exploring legal personality of animals in India and Pakistan.
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library