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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
As we’ve mentioned previously, the Law Library has a great news service called the Global Legal Monitor. Often these stories about legal developments in many different jurisdictions are ones that don’t feature in U.S. newspapers or news programs, and they link or refer to a wide range of different sources of information. On the homepage …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by George Sadek, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. On January 25, all across Egypt, hundreds of thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to demand the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak. Mubarak responded to these demands by firing his cabinet and appointing a new …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Waitangi Day – New Zealand’s national day, commemorated with a public holiday on February 6 each year – is different from the national days of many other countries. It doesn’t celebrate a declaration or statute of independence at the end of a conflict or revolution or following a decolonization process, and it doesn’t celebrate a …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The picture of the week is the cover of the Treaty of Wanghia, a treaty establishing diplomatic relations between China and the United States in 1844.
Posted in: Asian American History, Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Today is Data Privacy Day – “an annual international celebration to raise awareness and generate discussion about information privacy.” In Europe, it’s called European Privacy and Data Protection Day. The day, whether in North America or in Europe or other parts of the world, basically involves various corporations, government officials and representatives, academics, and students …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Nicole Atwill, Senior Foreign Law Specialist. My husband was recently lamenting the loss of the second of his original law partners to a judicial appointment, this time to the Supreme Court of Virginia. When I mentioned that such a scenario would be extremely rare in France, the conversation …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Last year Clare wrote about changes to the UK government’s legislation website, and we’ve written a lot about enhancements to THOMAS, so when I got an email last week about the Australian government’s legislation website being upgraded I thought it definitely warranted some attention. The ComLaw website provides open access to Commonwealth (i.e., federal) legislation. …
Posted in: Global Law, Gov 2.0
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Nicole Atwill, Senior Foreign Law Specialist. The Black Code tells us a very long story that started in Versailles, at the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, in March 1685 and ended in Paris in April 1848 under Arago, at the beginning of the ephemeral Second Republic. …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
I’ve been getting into the holiday spirit and wanted to blog about something related to the season. I thought I could follow up my Thanksgiving Day post with something about the laws relating to Christmas Day, but then I thought that something with a little more international flavor might be interesting (I did find some …
Posted in: Global Law