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Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
The following is a guest post by Graciela Rodriguez-Ferrand, a senior foreign law specialist at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. When a plane landed in Madrid, Spain, on January 31, 2020, with passengers who had been evacuated from China …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The following post is written by Dante Figueroa, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. The Italian Parliamentary Library is composed of two libraries: the Senate Library and the Chamber of Deputies Library. Together they make up the Italian Joint Parliamentary Library (Polo Bibliotecario Parlamentare), the largest parliamentary library in Europe. The …
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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
The Law Library holds a rare Malay law manuscript in Jawi script, hand copied by Munshi Abdullah in 1837. It was purchased for the United States and the Library by Alfred North during the United States Exploring Expedition. Dr. Joshua Kueh of Asian Division discovered this manuscript in the Law Library’s Rare Book Collection.
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