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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: Kelly Buchanan
The Saudi Arabia municipal elections held in December 2015 were the first in which women could vote and stand as candidates.
Posted in: Frequently Asked Legal Questions (FALQ), Global Law, Guest Post, In the News, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by the Law Library’s managing editor, Charlotte Stichter. When Charlotte is not at her day job she loves to cook, and is currently on a quest to find the perfect recipe for clafouti. For those with vivid imaginations, the terms “link rot” and “reference rot” might conjure images of …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This weekend several Law Library of Congress staff members will be traveling to Philadelphia for the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Below is a quick rundown of the panel discussions at which attendees will be able to hear about some of our work: Janice Hyde – “Effective Content Management for …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Connie Johnson, a senior legal research analyst at the Law Library of Congress. She most recently published a blog post on her new bibliography of Islamic law materials. The Law Library of Congress has published a report titled Treatment of Foreign Fighters in Selected Jurisdictions. The focus of …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Who were the first women to become lawyers and judges around the world? Find out in the final of a three-post series by the Law Library of Congress in celebration of Women's History Month.
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Who were the first women to be elected to parliaments around the world? Find out in the second of three posts by the Law Library of Congress in celebration of Women's History Month.
Posted in: Congress, Education, Global Law, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
When did women first gain the right to vote in different countries? Find out in the first of three posts by the Law Library of Congress in celebration of Women's History Month.
Posted in: Congress, Education, Global Law, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The foreign law specialists and legal analysts at the Law Library of Congress have had another busy year writing reports and other responses to requests from a wide range of patrons. Some of these were detailed multinational studies, such as our reports on police weapons in select countries and on the regulation of genetically modified …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports