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Posted by: Betty Lupinacci
This week’s interview is with Suneewan Creech, the newest technician in the Collection Services Division of the Law Library. Although she’s not really new, Ms. Creech has been a contractor at the Law Library since 2008, managing the contract accessioning new materials into the collection. We are very happy to add her to our staff. …
Posted in: Collections, Interview
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
Today’s interview is with Michele Chisholm, a copyright licensing specialist at the U.S. Copyright Office and the current president of the Library of Congress chapter of Blacks in Government (BIG). Describe your background. I am a native Washingtonian, who grew up in the segregated South during the peak of the civil rights movement. My …
Posted in: Interview
Posted by: Ruth Levush
The following is a guest post by the Director of the Global Legal Research Center Peter Roudik. Peter is a frequent contributor to In Custodia Legis. He has written a number of posts, including on “Ukraine: Two Understandings of Lustration,” “Crimean History, Status, and Referendum,” “Regulating the Winter Olympics in Russia,” “Soviet Law and the Assassination …
Posted in: Frequently Asked Legal Questions (FALQ), Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
February 6 is National Sami Day. The purpose of the day is to celebrate the Sami, the indigenous people of the northern parts of the Nordic countries–Norway, Sweden, and Finland–as well as the Kola Peninsula of Russia, which is an area known as Sápmi . It is estimated that the Sami have lived there for over 2,000 …
Posted in: Education, Global Law
Posted by: Andrew Weber
I love end of the year lists. It is nice to take a step back from the day to day or month to month and look at trends over time. Last year I surveyed the top 13 in 2013 and decided to add another item to the list this year. This has been an eventful …
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 …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Margaret Wood
Six of our staff from various divisions — including Public Services, Legislative & External Relations and Global Legal Research — participated in the National Book Festival this year, handing out 2500 of our famous gavel pencils as well as flyers with information about the Law Library of Congress (LLC). As I have done in previous years, I asked my colleagues …
Posted in: Event
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
If you follow our work closely, you know that the Law Library of Congress often produces foreign, comparative, and international law reports on a wide range of important issues. Our recently completed report, titled Laws on Children Residing with Parents in Prison, surveys the laws of ninety-seven countries related to young children residing in prison …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, Law Library
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 …
Posted in: Education, Global Law, In the News