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Posted by: Andrew Weber
This week’s interview is with one of our former interns from last summer, Sharon Pia Hickey. Describe your background. I spent the summer of 2010 in Washington DC as part of the Washington Ireland Program. This program is designed to select the brightest young minds in Ireland and bring them to DC for a …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This week’s interview is with Hanibal Goitom, a Foreign Law Specialist in our Global Legal Research Center. Hanibal has previously written two guest posts for In Custodia Legis. His “Power Lunch” was also discussed in the post There’s No Place Like Home. Describe your background. I am a Foreign Law Specialist at the Law Library …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview
Posted by: Andrew Weber
The following is a guest post by Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress. This holiday letter is also available in PDF. With the year drawing to a close, I want to send you my best wishes for the New Year and to provide you with important Law Library of Congress updates as we head into …
Posted in: Collections, Congress, Global Law, Gov 2.0, Guest Post, Law Library, THOMAS
Posted by: Andrew Weber
Our most recent “Power Lunch” was a discussion by our Foreign Law Specialist, Hanibal Goitom. He presented “Citizenship Issues Affecting Certain Ethiopians of Eritrean Origin.” His talk focused mainly on an international arbitration case that Eritrea and Ethiopia litigated regarding the citizenship of a group of Ethiopians of Eritrean origin who were denationalized by Ethiopia. …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Hanibal Goitom, Foreign Law Specialist at the Law Library of Congress. This is his second guest post – the first discussed cases and legislation relating to women’s rights in Africa. Here at the Law Library of Congress we have a great tradition called the “Power Lunch” – a …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Anna Price
The following is the first of two guest posts by Rebecca Komathy, a former intern with the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress. She is currently a graduate student in the master of library and information science program at San Jose State University. The second blog post on this topic will be …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
As part of the anniversary celebration of Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents, we recruited seven remote interns to transcribe, review, and conduct research on this unique collection of materials from the 15th to 19th centuries. If you want to learn more about this remarkable group of undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals, who are the …
Posted in: Collections, Event, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Blog post about Fannie Lou Hamer's legacy in voting rights and desegregation.
Posted in: African American History, Collections, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
The following is part two of a two-part guest post by Clare Feikert-Ahalt, a senior foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering the United Kingdom and several other jurisdictions. Clare has written a number of posts for In Custodia Legis, including Weird Laws, or Urban Legends?; FALQs: Brexit Referendum; and The UK’s Legal …
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