In the last release, Andrew shared that we added a video icon to search results for committee meetings that include a video, the Congress.gov Share/Save toolbar was updated, and a button was added to committee prints and committee transcripts pages to read the text from those collections to you. In this release, we are excited […]
Yesterday, we published a list with the most viewed legal research reports of fiscal year 2020. Today, I bring you a new report that we recently published on our website: Civic Space Legal Framework in select countries.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) defines civic space as the “set of legal, policy, institutional, and […]
Interested in what the Law Library does? This blog posts details our most read Global Legal Monitor articles and Legal Research Reports in fiscal year 2020.
The following is a guest post from Nicolas Boring, the foreign law specialist covering French-speaking jurisdictions at the Law Library of Congress. Nicolas has previously blogged about Telework and the French “Right to Disconnect”, Report on Right of Huguenots to French Citizenship, “Bastille Day” Is About More Than the Bastille, and others. The U.S. Supreme Court […]
Our 2020 fiscal year came to a close on September 30. As we dive into fiscal year 2021, let’s take a moment to highlight our most popular blog posts published within our fiscal year 2020! In 2020, we published 238 blog posts. Here are some of our most-viewed blog posts published in the past year: […]
The upheavals of the year 2020 will leave an indelible mark on legal systems throughout the world. This year, much of the work of the Law Library of Congress focused on the changes imposed by the pandemic. As part of the Law Library’s Legal Research Institute’s Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series, on November 19, […]
Recently, I posted on this blog a piece about the use of “spectral evidence” during the Salem witch trials, in which I mentioned that 19 people died by hanging, and one person died from being crushed to death. The victim of this latter cause of death was a farmer named Giles Corey. Corey, an 81-year-old […]
Each year the Library of Congress reviews and compiles materials to assist debate students who are competing in the National Speech and Debate Association’s annual debates. The culmination of these efforts results in an annotated bibliography created by experts across various library divisions. A federal statute mandating this undertaking has been in effect since 1968; […]
We are once again promoting our upcoming U.S. law webinars. Like many of you, most Law Library of Congress employees are continuing to work from home due to the pandemic and local health and safety regulations. While we cannot see our Law Library colleagues face-to-face, over the past few months some of us have been […]
On Wednesday, October 7, the Law Library of Congress, in collaboration with By the People, the Hispanic Division, and the African, Latin American and Western European Division (ALAWE), hosted a second Transcribe-a-thon for our crowdsourcing campaign, Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents. This event was held in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month and the release […]