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Join Us on 10/26 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar titled “Nordic Noir: Genealogy as a Criminal Investigation Technique in Denmark and Sweden”

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 …

Law Library of Congress Report Discusses Tax and Investment Incentives

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 …

Introducing the Law Library’s New Multi-jurisdiction Report on Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Around the World

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 …

Flyer announcing upcoming foreign law webinar on Israel's Legal Reforms created by Taylor Gulatsi.

Join Us on 9/28 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar on Israel’s Legal Reforms

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 …