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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, director of legal research at the Law Library of Congress. He has written a number of posts for In Custodia Legis, including on “Crimean History, Status, and Referendum,” “Regulating the Winter Olympics in Russia,” “Soviet Law and the Assassination of JFK,” and the “Treaty on the …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Elin Hofverberg, a foreign law research consultant who covers Scandinavian countries at the Law Library of Congress. Elin has previously written about the bicentenary of Norway’s constitution and a boarding school scandal in Sweden for In Custodia Legis. When I conduct research on Scandinavian jurisdictions here at the …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by George Sadek, a senior legal research analyst at the Law Library of Congress. George has previously written various posts related to Egyptian law for In Custodia Legis, including about the constitutional developments in the country in the past couple of years. As has been widely reported and discussed …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, senior foreign law specialist for Japan and several Southeast Asian countries. She has previously also written posts on the Law Library’s collections for Korea and Japan, as well as on her report about post-earthquake legislation in Japan. Cambodia is an interesting country to study and is …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, a senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress. It continues our Global Collection Highlights Series. Sayuri previously contributed a post on Japanese family law to this series. She also recently wrote a post on the laws and regulations passed in the aftermath of the Great …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, a senior foreign law specialist covering Japan and several Southeast Asian countries at the Law Library of Congress. Last year I completed a major research report titled “Japan: Legal Responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011,” which is now available on the Law Library’s …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Elin Hofverberg, a foreign law research consultant at the Law Library of Congress. May 17 (or “Syttende Mai” as the locals call it), which falls this weekend, is always cause for great celebration in Oslo as Norway celebrates its National Day or Constitution Day. This generally means dressing …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Norma C. Gutiérrez, senior foreign law specialist for Mexico and Central American countries in the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Directorate. It is part of our Global Legal Collection Highlights series that aims to inform readers about English-language materials in the Law Library’s collection. To date, the series …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, Director of the Global Legal Research Center at the Law Library of Congress and a foreign law specialist covering Russia and former Soviet Union jurisdictions. He has written several guest posts for In Custodia Legis, including “Regulating the Winter Olympics in Russia,” “Soviet Law and the Assassination …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News