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Posted by: Robert Brammer
Law Library of Congress Rare Book Curator Nathan Dorn brings us a display of new acquisitions for the Law Library’s Rare Book Collection. In this video, Nathan shares five new acquisitions from the collection. The first item is a Russian work, the first edition of the Sobornoye Ulozhenie or the Ulozhenie of 1649, a compilation …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
Forty years ago today, on February 4, 1981, Gro Harlem Brundtland became Norway’s first female prime minister (PM). Erna Solberg, Norway’s current PM, became the second woman to serve as PM when she was elected to this role following the 2013 national election. Norwegian Women’s Suffrage 2019 marked the centennial of women’s suffrage in the …
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
Nathan Dorn describes a new acquisition - the Henry Clay draft of Article IX of the Treaty of Ghent.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
This month marks the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Mayflower Compact. Signed on November 21, 1620 (November 11, Old Style), the Mayflower Compact was an agreement that joined the people onboard the Mayflower – the ship that carried the colonists who first settled Plymouth, Massachusetts – in a single self-governing community. People have often …
Posted in: In the News, Law Library
Posted by: Robert Brammer
This is a guest post by Rebecca Boggs Roberts. Rebecca is a program coordinator at Smithsonian Associates, writer, and the former program director for the Historic Congressional Cemetery. In 2003, an unidentified man called the Historic Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. and asked the cemetery manager, “Would you be interested in getting William Wirt’s head back?” The answer, of course, …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Francisco Macías
This is a blog post about Loving v. Virginia by the Law Library of Congress.
Posted in: African American History, Education, Event, Law Library
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
This post discusses three notable Jewish American lawyers in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month.
Posted in: In the News, Jewish American History, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
While growing up in New Zealand, then attending university there and working as a policy adviser in both environmental and constitutional law, I saw news items and had discussions about Māori rights, activism, and related legal or policy developments fairly regularly. I have therefore followed with interest media articles and social media discussions about the …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Blog post about the life and activism of Vine Deloria, Jr.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans