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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Steve Clarke, Senior Foreign Law Specialist at the Law Library of Congress. Ireland employs a very complicated single transferable voting system to elect the 166 members of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas. Under this system, in which voters rank their choices, between three and five …
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Posted by: Francisco Macías
As a Mexican-born American, I’m always looking for occasions to celebrate. I guess this festive nature is simply dyed-in-the-wool (or dyed-in-the-cotton, if you’re Southern-raised, as I am). With that in mind, I wanted to write a bit about the Mexican Constitution – especially since two related holidays take place in the month of February: Mexican …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Below is a picture of the preamble as contained in the limited print edition of the Constitution of India, which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly in 1949 and came into force on January 26, 1950. The World Digital Library states that “the original of this elaborate edition took nearly five years to produce” and …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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