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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The following is a guest post by Tariq Ahmad, a legal analyst in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Tariq has previously blogged about Islamic Law in Pakistan – Global Legal Collection Highlights, the Law Library’s 2013 Panel Discussion on Islamic Law, Sedition Law in India, and Physician-Assisted Suicide in Canada. …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The following is a guest post by Geneviève Claveau and Julia Heron, summer interns at the Global Legal Research Directorate, Law Library of Congress. Every year on June 24th, the province of Quebec, Canada celebrates Saint-Jean-Baptiste day. Initially associated with Catholicism, this holiday goes as far back as 1834, when it was first used to …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
The following is a guest post by Agata Tajchert, one of the collections technicians in the Processing Section of the Law Library’s Collection Services Division. Agata heads up our preservation efforts to microfilm material that is too fragile to remain in paper form. A few years ago, after a major inventorying project, the Law Library’s …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Francisco Macías
This is a guest post by Wendy Zeldin, a senior legal research analyst in the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Directorate. Having recently watched several episodes of The Eagle, whose protagonist is a troubled but brilliant Icelandic detective working in Denmark, and having followed the exploits of Arnaldur Indridason’s Detective Erlendur, I consider myself no …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Andrew Weber
This is a guest post by Nicolas Boring, French foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress. Nicolas wrote FALQs: Freedom of Speech in France and co-collaborated on the post, Does the Haitian Criminal Code Outlaw Making Zombies. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and my first language is …
Posted in: Guest Post, Interview
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Nicolas Boring, French foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress. Nicolas has previously blogged FALQs: Freedom of Speech in France and co-collaborated on the post, Does the Haitian Criminal Code Outlaw Making Zombies. I took a few days of vacation to visit relatives in France back in …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Connie Johnson, a senior legal research analyst at the Law Library of Congress. She most recently published a blog post on her new bibliography of Islamic law materials. The Law Library of Congress has published a report titled Treatment of Foreign Fighters in Selected Jurisdictions. The focus of …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Robert Brammer
The following is a guest post by Shameema Rahman, a senior legal research specialist in our Public Services Division. The Convention on International Civil Aviation (also known as the Chicago Convention) was signed on December 7, 1944, by 52 countries. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) was officially established on April 4, 1947, following the …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
The following is a guest post by Brandon Fitzgerald, project manager of a Law Library staffing contract, writer and student of poetry and literature. In honor of National Poetry Month, I want to consider the intersections between law and poetry. Each entails persuasion and precision of language. Word choice and word placement are central to …
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