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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
Our ten most popular Global Legal Monitor (GLM) articles for April covered various jurisdictions and a wide range of legal issues: citizenship and immigration; the Internet and access to information; labor and employment; elections; and criminal justice. Here is the list of GLM articles most viewed in April in the order of their popularity: South Korea: Permanent …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
There is still a lot of interest in the Titanic one hundred years later as Kelly’s post topped In Custodia Legis by a wide margin this month. It was great to see many of the Library of Congress blogs post on a similar topic. It demonstrated the breadth of knowledge throughout our wonderful institution. In …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
This post is a follow up to yesterday’s post, in which we challenged you to solve a riddle. Today we have the answer: The book we misplaced is the 1910 edition of ‘A Law Dictionary‘ by Henry Campbell Black, known now as Black’s Law Dictionary. This title has been relied upon by many legal scholars and academics, …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
I had an idea the other day to try and test the observational skills and knowledge of our readers, as well as highlight some of the items in the Law Library’s vast collection. I intentionally put a book on the wrong shelf. To my librarian colleagues who came to me with heart palpitations that I …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Debbie Keysor, Senior Legal Reference Specialist at the Law Library of Congress. In February, Andrew Weber pointed out in “The Supreme Court and the Library — Pic of the Week” that the Law Library Reading Room is a U.S. Supreme Court Depository Library. There are currently 10 Supreme Court Depository Libraries scattered throughout …
Posted in: Collections, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
When Andrew asked me if I would write a post for Shakespeare’s birthday, I enthusiastically agreed. I had just been rewatching Kenneth Branagh’s film, Henry V and as a dedicated Anglophile thought, this will be easy! I subsequently realized that as a writer for the Law Library’s blog I would need to write about Shakespeare and the law – …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Tina Gheen
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) recently formed a new technical committee, the OASIS LegalDocumentML (LegalDocML) Technical Committee, to begin moving forward specifications for a common legal document standard for parliamentary, legislative and judicial documents. The specification will be based upon the Akoma Ntoso-UN project’s XML schema, which Andrew Weber mentioned …
Posted in: Gov 2.0, Law Library
Posted by: Clare Feikert-Ahalt
This week’s interview is with Tariq Ahmad, a Legal Analyst in the Global Legal Research Center of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background My family is originally from Pakistan. My father and mother moved to the U.S. before I was born so my father could complete his Ph.D. Soon after I was born, …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
In recognition of Law Day 2012, the Law Library of Congress will host Richard Dreyfuss for a discussion focused on The Dreyfuss Initiative, a nonprofit corporation that aims to revitalize civics education in public schools. The program will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1 in the Coolidge Auditorium, located on the ground floor …
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