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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is an interview with Faith Jo, who is currently working as an intern in the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Center. The Law Library is proud to host a number of interns each year from all over the world. We hope to post many more interviews with interns throughout the year! Describe your …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This week’s interview is with Loi Huynh. Loi is spending time working for the Law Library this summer as an intern in the Global Legal Research Center. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I was fortunate to grow up in a family where being a lawyer was …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This week’s interview is with Hashmat Nadirpor, a summer intern in the Global Legal Research Center. Describe your background. I am from Afghanistan and live in Kabul, the capital – an overcrowded city in the eastern part of the country. I also lived a part of my life in the north and central parts of …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
This week’s interview is with Ángel García, one of our summer interns in the Global Legal Research Center. Describe your background. I was born in Ponferrada but I was raised in Valladolid, a city in the north central part of Spain. I am a law graduate of Alfonso X El Sabio, Madrid, and after the …
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Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Discussions about how public sector agencies, courts, and parliaments can best make use of online technology to provide information in different ways and engage with people have been building momentum worldwide for a few years. In fact, earlier this month there was a big Gov 2.0 Summit held here in Washington, DC. Clare recently blogged …
Posted in: Global Law, Gov 2.0, THOMAS
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The Law Library recently received a book that republishes an important Soviet legal text on criminal procedure. It was written by Andrei Vyshinsky, a prosecutor during the "Great Purge" of Soviet leadership and elite.
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a 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 numerous posts for In Custodia Legis, including Revealing the Presence of Ghosts; Weird Laws, or Urban Legends?; FALQs: Brexit Referendum; 100 Years of “Poppy Day” in the United Kingdom; and 100 Year Anniversary …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News, LGBTQ
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
We know from our daily work that countries are influenced by the legal and policy approaches that are taken by other countries to different issues. For example, governments have considered, or are considering, developments in other jurisdictions in relation to the regulation of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency. Sometimes, there are international agreements that are implemented into …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Today’s interview is with Gerard Mosolo, a legal research fellow currently working in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born and raised in Binga, in the north region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). After elementary school, I went to a Catholic boarding …
Posted in: Global Law, Interview, Law Library