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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with Rob Sukol, Deputy Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. Rob previously did the guest post titled “The United States Code Online – Downloadable XML Files and More” on In Custodia Legis. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The music scene in Philly grabbed …
Posted by: Laney Zhang
This is the second post in my A Guide to Chinese Legal Research series, following the first one published on January 30, 2014: A Guide to Chinese Legal Research: Who Makes What? My previous post on Chinese legal research introduced various types of documents having the force of law in China. Among them, the most …
Posted in: Global Law, Research Guide
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Norma C. Gutiérrez, senior foreign law specialist for Mexico and Central American countries in the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Directorate. It is part of our Global Legal Collection Highlights series that aims to inform readers about English-language materials in the Law Library’s collection. To date, the series …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Donna Sokol
Happy Friday! We’ve updated the links of our legal research guides for fourteen foreign jurisdictions. These research guides provide a one-stop primer on the legal systems of foreign countries by providing links to reference sources, compilations, citations guides, periodicals (indexes and databases), dictionaries, web resources, free public web sites, subscription-based services, subject-specific web sites, and country overviews. The …
Posted in: Law Library, Collections, Global Law, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
In December 2013 and January 2014, Global Legal Monitor (GLM) published a total of 72 articles covering various legal developments around the world. Here is a list of the top ten most viewed articles in the last two months: Indonesia: Universal Health Care Program Implemented Nigeria: Bill Prohibiting Same-Sex Marriage Moves Forward Norway: Bitcoins Are …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Laney Zhang
With this post, we at the Law Library of Congress wish you a happy Year of Horse, which starts from tomorrow, January 31! Many of the people coming to us for help with Chinese legal research have had the experience of being confused by the titles of the various legal documents. “Regulations,” “measures,” “provisions,” “opinions,” “decisions…” What are they? …
Posted in: Global Law, Research Guide
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Connie Johnson, a senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. It is part of our Global Legal Collection Highlights series, in which we publish posts about materials in the Law Library’s collection related to particular topics or jurisdictions. December 10 was international Human Rights Day. …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Event, Guest Post
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
As I said in my post last week on the foreign and comparative law reports we published in 2013, December is a good time to look back and evaluate the year. This has been a busy year for the In Custodia Legis blog team. So far in 2013, we have published 233 posts and May …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Margaret Wood
James (Jim) Martin, Andrew Weber and I were talking about Christmas movies several weeks ago. Jim describes himself as a cynic, who “developed a taste for what I call ‘alternative Christmas,’ films such as The Lion in Winter and Desk Set.” Jim defines alternative Christmas films as “films that take place during the holiday period, but …
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