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Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
At the beginning of every year, many of us take a moment or two to assess the previous year and make resolutions for the next one. Here at the Law Library of Congress, we are no different; we review our products and make plans to improve them. This includes the Global Legal Monitor (GLM), an …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Andrew Weber
I recently returned from my first visit to Austin, Texas for the 110th American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting and Conference. Hanibal, Tariq, and I hosted a panel, Tech Trends + Transparency. In it we discussed a new Law Library of Congress report, Features of Parliamentary Websites, by the Law Library’s foreign law specialists. In the …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Early last year I wrote about the publication of a collection of Law Library of Congress reports that delve into the workings of national parliaments in twelve countries around the world. We’ve recently added four more countries to the collection, so there is now coverage of specific parliaments in South Asia and Africa, in addition to those in a …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
We recently published a report that surveys laws criminalizing blasphemy, defaming religion, harming religious feelings and other similar acts in seventy-seven jurisdictions around the world. The report includes a map showing the different regions of the world covered in the report. Reports such as this one, which survey a geographically, economically, and politically diverse group of countries, …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
The beginning of a new year is often a time for looking back and evaluating the work done in the previous one. Here at In Custodia Legis, we like to use this opportunity to highlight some of the Law Library’s popular online products. Andrew wrote about the Law Library reports and bills on Congress.Gov with the …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Donna Sokol
The Global Legal Monitor (GLM), one of the Law Library of Congress’s premier online sources, published 473 articles in 2015 covering legal developments from around the world on a variety of issues, particularly parliamentary acts and court decisions. When writing for the Global Legal Monitor, we try to focus on issues that we believe will interest our readers. One of the …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This blog post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions series. In late April 2015, Indonesia executed two Australian citizens, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, who had been convicted of drug trafficking offenses in 2006. The two men were part of the “Bali Nine” syndicate that had attempted to smuggle 18 pounds (more than 8 kilograms) …
Posted in: Frequently Asked Legal Questions (FALQ), Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
Following the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, there has been a great deal of debate both in the United States and abroad about how countries deal with major public health crises. This included discussions about the difficulty of containing the virus in the countries hardest-hit by the epidemic and what preventative measures other countries …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
If you follow our work closely, you know that the Law Library of Congress often produces foreign, comparative, and international law reports on a wide range of important issues. Our recently completed report, titled Laws on Children Residing with Parents in Prison, surveys the laws of ninety-seven countries related to young children residing in prison …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Law Library