Peanuts, Potatoes, Patents, and Plants – The Life and Times of George Washington Carver
Posted by: Kelly Goles
A blog post about the agricultural pursuits of George Washington Carver
Posted in: African American History, Guest Post, Law Library
Category: Law Library
New Report from the Law Library of Congress On The Regulation of Hemp Around the World
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The Law Library of Congress has released a new comparative report on the regulation of hemp in multiple jurisdictions.
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News, Law Library, Research Guide
Join Us on 2/23 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar: The Dilemma of Trafficking in Persons for the Purpose of Forced Labor and Sexual Exploitation in Gulf Cooperation Council for Arab States
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by George Sadek, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering laws of Arabic-speaking countries and Islamic law. Join us on February 23 at 2 p.m. EST for our next foreign, comparative, and international law webinar titled, “The Dilemma of Trafficking in Persons for the Purpose of Forced Labor and …
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Celebrating Over 10,000 Foreign Legal Gazette Issues Now Online
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Michael Mellifera, a digital collection specialist in the Digital Resources Division at the Law Library of Congress. Since the mid-nineteenth century, the Law Library of Congress has been collecting foreign official gazettes and maintains the largest collection of these sources in the entire world. The Law Library’s gazette collection …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
An Interview with Seongryeol (Ryan) Park, Foreign Law Intern
Posted by: Kelly Goles
Today’s interview is with Seongryeol (Ryan) Park, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Sayuri Umeda in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Seoul, the capital city of the Republic of Korea (South Korea; ‘ROK’). I took the North Korean threat for granted …
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New Law Library of Congress Report Examines Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Michael Chalupovitsch, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada and Caribbean jurisdictions. The Law Library of Congress recently published its report, Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases, which provides a comparative analysis of antitrust and competition cases concerning the pharmaceutical industry in 12 jurisdictions. The jurisdictions covered by this report include Australia, …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
What Not to Wear: Clothing Rationing During World War II
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Lauren Krauskopf, a former intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She was a double major in government & politics and History at the University of Maryland, College Park. On January 16, 1942, just over one month after the attack on Pearl Harbor …
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The Most Viewed Legal Research Reports and Global Legal Monitor Articles of 2022
Posted by: Kelly Goles
A look at the most viewed global legal monitor posts and legal research reports
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, In the News, Law Library
Join Us on 1/26 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar: Indigenous Governance in the Circumpolar Arctic
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Michael Chalupovitsch, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada and Caribbean jurisdictions. Join us on January 26 at 2 p.m. EST for our next foreign, comparative, and international law webinar titled, “Indigenous Governance in the Circumpolar Arctic.” Please register here. With the ongoing effects of climate change, the Arctic …
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