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Posted by: Ruth Levush
The Law Library's recently published legal research report, Regulation of Lobbying Activities in the Judicial Branch, is now available online.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This pic of the week shows the "Alabama room" in Geneva, Switzerland, where the Alabama arbitration between the United States and Britain took place in 1872.
Posted in: Global Law, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The Law Library is happy to announce that our collection of legacy and contemporary reports has grown to over 4,000. This summer, we plan to announce a new update to our crowdsourcing campaign, with the release of several hundred additional digitized reports that were published over the last couple years and which would benefit greatly from volunteer transcriptions to help ensure accurate full-text searchability of our collection.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog post introduces the recently published report "Asylum Application Processes" of the Law Library of Congress, which reviews the asylum application processes in nine selected jurisdictions, in particular processes involved in determining whether an asylum seeker is in need of international protection.
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Michael Chalupovitsch, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada and Caribbean jurisdictions. The Law Library of Congress recently published its report, Pharmaceutical Antitrust Cases, which provides a comparative analysis of antitrust and competition cases concerning the pharmaceutical industry in 12 jurisdictions. The jurisdictions covered by this report include Australia, …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, the assistant law librarian for legal research at the Law Library of Congress and the director of the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Directorate. Currently meeting in Egypt, the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27, is discussing how to address climate change and mitigate its consequences. One of …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Michael Chalupovitsch, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering Canada and Caribbean jurisdictions. A recently published Law Library of Congress report, Mass Timber Construction, examines the use of mass timber, also known as cross-laminated timber, in the construction of buildings in ten countries. According to Natural Resources Canada, mass timber …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Erika Hope Spencer discusses avenues for research in Library of Congress collections on the subject of Witchcraft.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
This post recounts the history of 3 early modern trials of LGBTQ people.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, LGBTQ