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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. In a recent interview with NPR, the Librarian of Congress Dr. James H. Billington said that “the assassination of President Kennedy …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Ruth Levush
The following is a guest post by Elin Hofverberg, a Swedish law specialist working at the Law Library of Congress. Elin was featured in an In Custodia Legis interview on October 19, 2011. What happened? A debate about the existence, operation, and legal aspects of private boarding schools is currently raging in Sweden. Such schools remain …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Margaret Wood
For my cousins, growing up in New England, American history began with the Pilgrims and settlement at Jamestown. But for me, growing up in New Mexico, history began with the 16th century Spanish Conquest and the drive up into New Mexico territory followed, a century later, by the Pueblo Revolt. The history of the United States …
Posted in: In the News
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Elections for Australia’s federal Parliament will be held this weekend on September 7, 2013. Initially, in January of this year, the then prime minister, Julia Gillard, announced that September 14 would be the election date. But in June a new prime minister, Kevin Rudd (who is also a former prime minister), took over and in …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Magna Carta, the Charter of Liberties sealed by King John of England in 1215 AD, is routinely cited as one of the most important documents of our constitutional tradition. It ranks with the English Bill of Rights (1689), The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution in symbolic power. And while the details of …
Posted in: Education, In the News, Law Library, Research Guide
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
This installment of my Global Legal Monitor (GLM) Highlights post combines June and July GLM articles. The articles published in the two months addressed a wide range of legal subjects: Banks and financial institutions; Communications and electronic information; Criminal law and procedure; Education; Immigration; Labor; and Nationality and citizenship. Below is a list of the top …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Laney Zhang
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. — Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854). In 2011, I wrote a guest post on the topic of trains and corruption when China‘s then Minister of Railways, Mr. Liu Zhijun, was removed from office for taking bribes relating to rail construction projects, in particular the …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This past weekend New Zealand’s laws made an appearance in international news publications once again with headlines such as “South African Chef ‘Too Fat’ to Live in New Zealand” (BBC), “New Zealand Cites Obesity In Denying Chef’s Work Visa” (NPR), “Obese Man Faces Deportation” (Sky News), and “New Zealand Immigration Officials Say Man is Too …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Donna Sokol
This is a guest post by Antoinette Ofosu-Kwakye, a Law Library summer intern. She is working with the Global Legal Research team on research related to English-speaking African nations. Kelly and Hanibal have both written blog posts that touched on aspects of the life of Nelson Mandela: The Inspiring Story of Nelson Mandela and South Africa Freedom Day. Today, …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News