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Posted by: Kelly Goles
Over the past few days, we have brought you our most-viewed blog posts of the year, as well as the Law Library’s most viewed reports for 2021. To finish out our most-viewed series, we are bringing you our most-viewed webinar recordings. The Law Library of Congress holds several recurring webinars throughout the year, as well …
Posted in: Education, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Pichrotanak Bunthan, a legal research fellow with the Law Library of Congress who is working under the supervision of Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist covering Japan and other jurisdictions in East and Southeast Asia. In my previous blog post, I described what legal education in Cambodia looks like. As a sequel to that post, the …
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
A post highlighting items from the Congressional Cemetery celebrating Native American heritage
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
The Pic of the Week showcases the Golden Fleece Tavern and the Old State House in Dover, Delaware.
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
Pictures from Elbridge Gerry's grave in Congressional Cemetery.
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
Next month, the Law Library of Congress will present two webinars. The first will be an introduction to the Constitution Annotated, which surveys and expounds how the Supreme Court of the United States has interpreted every provision of the Constitution throughout the nation’s history. The second will be an orientation to the collections of the …
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
The following is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian of the modern United States focusing on domestic policy and law in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. Ryan previously contributed three other posts to In Custodia Legis - Federal Courts, Judge Gerhard Gesell, and the Security State, Simon Sobeloff and Jewish Baltimore, …
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Posted by: Kelly Goles
Today’s interview is with Emily Hausheer, an intern working on transcribing the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents crowdsourcing campaign at the Law Library of Congress. She will be a panelist in our upcoming Lunch & Learn Webinar: A Conversation with the Herencia Crowdsourcing Interns. Describe your background I grew up in a small town in Central New Jersey. …
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