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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The top ten most viewed Global Legal Monitor (GLM) articles for June covered a host of interesting legal subjects: Communications and electronic information; criminal law and procedure; elections; immigration; labor; nationality and citizenship; pension and retirement; and war crimes. Below is the list of the ten most popular GLM articles in June: South Korea: Permanent …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Tina Gheen
The following is a guest post by Dante Figueroa, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law: Esztergom, 3-8 August 2008 While reviewing some new Italian legal materials, I became intrigued by a monograph recently acquired by the Benelux, France and Italy Section …
Posted in: Collections, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Donna Sokol, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. Donna will be your virtual docent for a series of posts related to themes of law in the art and architecture of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building. She has previously written on the mosaic vaults and paintings …
Posted in: Education, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This sign has been resident in the manager’s office in the Law Library Reading Room for many years – sitting quietly out of sight on a shelf. Our best guess is that this sign was originally used when the Law Library was still located in the Thomas Jefferson Building, before the Law Library was moved over 30 years ago to …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Megan Lulofs Kuhagen, a Legal Information Analyst in the Public Services Division. Meg has previously posted on a variety of topics including States in the Senate, House Committee Hearings Video, the Cardiff Giant, the Canadian Library of Parliament, football blackouts, and librarian services. We have written about Roman law and canon law before at In Custodia Legis. On my recent trip …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
Today’s interview is with Lena Gómez, Law Library Reading Room Technician. We are happy to give the public a brief glimpse into her life; and as this is a parting interview of a colleague for whom we augur a brilliant future, we would like to take this opportunity to wish her much success in her …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Donna Sokol, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. Donna will be your virtual docent for a series of posts related to themes of law in the art and architecture of the Library of Congress Jefferson Building. In the first installment of this series, she focused on …
Posted in: Education, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Cynthia Jordan, Senior Writer-Editor at the Law Library of Congress. As the program manager for the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation Program on Demography, Technology, and Criminal Justice at the Library of Congress, I am pleased to welcome Orin S. Kerr as the Scholar-in-Residence for the program. As Scholar-in-Residence, …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
States and Cinco de Mayo were popular choices this month when linking to In Custodia Legis and also popular with our readers. Samford University Library’s Government Documents blog liked Nathan’s post about the states we almost had. The Lincoln Law School of San Jose Blog noted Meg’s States in the Senate post. The Law Librarian Blog thought Nathan’s …
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