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Posted by: Margaret Wood
It is election primary season here in the United States. Iowa and New Hampshire have voted, and the South Carolina Republican primary took place this past Saturday, February 20th. The South Carolina Democratic primary will take place this coming Saturday, February 27th. As is often the case in the United States, each state has different …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
The following is a guest post by James Martin, senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. James has previously written on The District of Columbia 1862 Emancipation Law and The Articles of Confederation: The First Constitution of the United States. Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court Antonin Scalia died in Texas …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The first multinational report to be published on the Law Library’s website in 2016 allows us to consider some fundamental questions underlying the practice of comparative law: who makes the laws, and how are the laws made? The report covers eleven jurisdictions with different legal and constitutional traditions and systems of government. We have the …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
This coming Monday, February 15, we will celebrate the federal holiday, Washington’s Birthday. You may be thinking, “my calendar says Monday is ‘Presidents’ Day,’ not ‘Washington’s birthday!’” Interestingly, the federal holiday is officially called Washington’s Birthday (5 US Code 6103) and is observed on the third Monday in February as established by Public Law 90-361 …
Posted in: Education, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Robert Brammer
This post is coauthored by Robert Brammer and Barbara Bavis, senior legal reference specialists. We sometimes receive questions about communications sent to Congress by the president that concern legislation. Since this post pertains to legislative history, our focus is on executive communications, presidential messages, veto messages, and signing statements. If you would like to learn more about …
Posted in: Education, Law Library, Research Guide
Posted by: Francisco Macías
Trial of a Sow and Pigs at Lavegny, from The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the Calendar, Including Anecdote, Biography, & History, Curiosities of Literature and Oddities of Human Life and Character, ed. Robert Chambers, 1879. https://archive.org/stream/b22650477_0001#page/128/mode/2up At present, one of the projects that I am working on involves …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
Today, February 4, marks the 75th anniversary of the 1941 founding of the United Service Organizations (USO). General George C. Marshall first suggested and President Franklin D. Roosevelt recommended that civilian, public service organizations form the United Service Organizations to provide recreation for on-leave members of the U.S. Armed Forces and their families in 1941. …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer González
Our final president is James Monroe. He follows George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison and completes the Virginia Dynasty. James Monroe was born in 1758 in the Northern Neck of Virginia, near the area where George Washington was born. Today, nothing remains of the house, but the land is a park with several …
Posted in: Education, Law Library
Posted by: Liah Caravalho
The remnants of snow from the colossal Washington, DC snow storm did not hinder Malibu law students from Pepperdine University School of Law from visiting the Law Library on Thursday, January 28. The law students, who are participants in the law school’s Washington, DC, Externship Semester program, visited the Law Library to receive Congress.gov research …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Pic of the Week