The following is a guest post by Steve Clarke, Senior Foreign Law Specialist at the Law Library of Congress. Ireland employs a very complicated single transferable voting system to elect the 166 members of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas. Under this system, in which voters rank their choices, between three and five […]
This week’s interview is with Isabella Marques de Castilla, who is at the Law Library of Congress as a Fellow in the Library of Congress Leadership Development Program. Describe your background. I am a product of different customs and cultures. I have resided in various countries including Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United […]
February seems to have rushed by. We continued to have several guest posts for In Custodia Legis this month. They included Thirty Years Ago – The Big Move, Legal Half Time Entertainment, The Legal Ramifications of the Current Political Crisis in Egypt, and The History of the Mexican Constitution. The guest post on Egypt was […]
The Law Library Reading Room is being remodeled in the near future. In connection with this project, several collections currently located in the Reading Room will be permanently relocated to other areas of the Law Library and Library of Congress shelving areas. The Library’s online catalog records will be updated as materials are relocated. Researchers […]
Below is a picture of our Global Legal Resource Room, which is managed by Elizabeth Moore. The Global Legal Resource Room is staffed Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. and may be used by members of the public during those hours. Books housed in this room are indicated by “GLOBAL” after their call […]
As a Mexican-born American, I’m always looking for occasions to celebrate. I guess this festive nature is simply dyed-in-the-wool (or dyed-in-the-cotton, if you’re Southern-raised, as I am). With that in mind, I wanted to write a bit about the Mexican Constitution – especially since two related holidays take place in the month of February: Mexican […]
This week’s interview is with Sayuri Umeda, Foreign Law Specialist in our Global Legal Research Center. Describe your background. I joined the Directorate of Legal Research (which was renamed as the Global Legal Research Center in 2010) of the Law Library in 2001. I used to have only two (or three, depending on how we […]
It’s been 150 years since the start of the Civil War. In case you were wondering, yes, I’m from South Carolina and no, I don’t call it the “War of Northern Aggression.” I remember hearing a news story about a woman serving in disguise during the Civil War and thought I’d look more into it […]
This Presidents Day I would like to focus on one out of the forty-four. The Law Library has a digital collection of items related to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln and the Law presents items from our Rare Book Collection that highlight periods when Lincoln’s life (and death) were securely linked to the law. Presented in three […]
Below is a picture of the preamble as contained in the limited print edition of the Constitution of India, which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly in 1949 and came into force on January 26, 1950. The World Digital Library states that “the original of this elaborate edition took nearly five years to produce” and […]