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An Interview with Bing Jia, Foreign Law Intern

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

The following interview is with Bing Jia.  Bing is currently working as an intern in the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Center. Describe your background. Apart from some brief moves, I spent my childhood in Liaocheng, a historical and cultural city in Northern China.  The Old Town — which is shaded from the summer heat …

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Understanding the Aussie Election

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

Elections for Australia’s federal Parliament will be held this weekend on September 7, 2013.  Initially, in January of this year, the then prime minister, Julia Gillard, announced that September 14 would be the election date.  But in June a new prime minister, Kevin Rudd (who is also a former prime minister), took over and in …

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Global Legal Monitor: June and July Highlights

Posted by: Hanibal Goitom

This installment of my Global Legal Monitor (GLM) Highlights post combines June and July GLM articles.  The articles published in the two months addressed a wide range of legal subjects: Banks and financial institutions; Communications and electronic information; Criminal law and procedure; Education; Immigration; Labor; and Nationality and citizenship.  Below is a list of the top …

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Trains and Corruption in China, Part II

Posted by: Laney Zhang

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. — Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854). In 2011, I wrote a guest post on the topic of trains and corruption when China‘s then Minister of Railways, Mr. Liu Zhijun, was removed from office for taking bribes relating to rail construction projects, in particular the …

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An Interview with Sanaz Alasti, Scholar in Residence

Posted by: Ruth Levush

This week’s interview is with Dr. Sanaz Alasti, a Scholar in Residence at the Law Library of Congress.  Dr. Alasti is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Lamar University and an Iranian legal scholar.  This interview is conducted as part of a series of interviews that introduce our scholars and summer interns to In Custodia …

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Odd Laws of the United Kingdom

Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt

The United Kingdom’s rich ancient legal history provides ample examples of legislation that has a rather bizarre or odd angle to it.  I always find it interesting to read about these odd laws, and wonder at what point they are simply urban legends, rather than real laws.  Most times, posts about weird laws don’t provide …