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Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Today’s interview is with Ethan Sea Yoon Shim, a summer intern working in the Collection Services Division at the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Seoul, Korea; I moved to the States in 2005. As a student attending James Madison University, I obtained experience in art and artifact …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Donna Sokol
Yesterday we celebrated the fourth birthday of In Custodia Legis, and today we have reached another milestone: this is the 1,000th blog post that we’ve published! We asked David S. Mao, the Law Librarian of Congress, to write the 1,000th post. In it, he highlights some of the many different areas of interest for the Law Library …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Whether it is our first week or our first year, we like to celebrate the milestones of In Custodia Legis. We started the blog asking What Exactly is In Custodia Legis? and have spent the last four years answering that question. In Custodia Legis is the Law Library of Congress and the people that make up …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Donna Sokol
The National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia adopted its first democratic constitution on January 26, 2014. We were fortunate to recently acquire a copy of the new constitution of Tunisia. Not only did we acquire the volume for our collection, Dr. Mustapha Ben Jaafar (Mustafá Bin Ja’far), the president of the National Constituent Assembly of Tunisia, personally …
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Donna Sokol
Today’s interview is with Samantha O’Brien O’Reilly, an intern with the Global Legal Research Directorate. Describe your background. I am from a small town called Kells in Co. Meath in Ireland. I have just completed my first two years of a four-year undergraduate degree in Law with French Law at University College Dublin. I will spend …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Tina Gheen
At the recent American Association of Law Libraries Conference, Jennifer Gonzalez, Jolande Goldberg and I had an opportunity to unveil a new Indigenous Law Portal. The Indigenous Law Portal brings together collection materials from the Law Library of Congress as well as links to tribal websites and primary source materials found on the Web. The …
Posted in: Collections, Education, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Today’s interview is with John “Trot” Trotman. John is working in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library of Congress as part of the institution’s Junior Fellows Program. The program’s focus is to increase access to our collections for our various patron groups. Describe your background: I grew up in Chesapeake, Virginia and went …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
This is a guest post by Jim Martin, senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Jim has written some of our most popular posts over the years including The Articles of Confederation. On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Hapsburg presumptive heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his …
Posted in: Collections, In the News, Law Library, World War I
Posted by: Robert Brammer
This is a guest post by Ashley Sundin who was an intern with the Law Library’s Public Services Division this summer. Animal law is a rapidly growing area of law, especially in the past decade. The human-animal interaction comes in a variety of forms including companionship, agriculture, and science. As a result, animal law extends …
Posted in: Education, Guest Post, Law Library, Research Guide