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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, director of legal research at the Law Library of Congress. Peter has written a number of posts related to Russia and the former Soviet Union, including posts on the Soviet investigation of Nazi war crimes, lustration in Ukraine, Crimean history and the 2014 referendum, regulating the …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, director of legal research at the Law Library of Congress. Peter has written a number of interesting posts related to Russia and the former Soviet Union for In Custodia Legis, including posts on the Soviet investigation of Nazi war crimes, lustration in Ukraine, Crimean history and …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Who were the first women to become lawyers and judges around the world? Find out in the final of a three-post series by the Law Library of Congress in celebration of Women's History Month.
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Who were the first women to be elected to parliaments around the world? Find out in the second of three posts by the Law Library of Congress in celebration of Women's History Month.
Posted in: Congress, Education, Global Law, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
When did women first gain the right to vote in different countries? Find out in the first of three posts by the Law Library of Congress in celebration of Women's History Month.
Posted in: Congress, Education, Global Law, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, director of legal research at the Law Library of Congress. He has written a number of posts for In Custodia Legis, including on “Crimean History, Status, and Referendum,” “Regulating the Winter Olympics in Russia,” “Soviet Law and the Assassination of JFK,” and the “Treaty on the …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Did you know that there are over 60 different species of kangaroo and their close relatives? How many kangaroos do you think live in Australia in total? 10,000? 1 million? 10 million? In fact, the population size of just the four most abundant kangaroo species has fluctuated between 15 million and 50 million over the …
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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: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, Director of the Global Legal Research Center at the Law Library of Congress and a foreign law specialist covering Russia and former Soviet Union jurisdictions. He has written several guest posts for In Custodia Legis, including “Regulating the Winter Olympics in Russia,” “Soviet Law and the Assassination …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News