The following is a guest post by Clare Feikert-Ahalt, a senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering the United Kingdom and several other jurisdictions. Clare has written numerous posts for In Custodia Legis, including Revealing the Presence of Ghosts; Weird Laws, or Urban Legends?; FALQs: Brexit Referendum; 100 Years of “Poppy Day” in the United Kingdom; and 100 Year Anniversary …
This blog post discusses piracy and its modern application, especially concerning the corroboration with pirates in title 18, chapter 81 of the United States Code; 1651-1657 and the case United States v. Ali (2012).
The following is a guest post by Stephania Alvarez, Foreign Law Specialist at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. It is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. The Venezuelan National Assembly issued a statement on September 23 of 2023, advocating for a referendum previously sanctioned by the Assembly on September 21, regarding Venezuela’s …
Please join us on September 28, 2023, at 2 p.m. EDT for our next foreign, comparative, and international law webinar titled, “Israel’s Legal Reforms.” This webinar is the latest installment in the Law Library’s Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series. Please register here. On January 4, 2023, Israel’s Minister of Justice Yariv Levin introduced a comprehensive …
On March 30, 2023, the Vatican issued a joint statement repudiating the “doctrine of discovery” and terra nullius. The doctrine of discovery was used as the legal foundation for taking the land of Indigenous people by Europeans, and for the establishment of residential schools; as Justice Marshall wrote, “The European governments asserted the exclusive right …
