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How a House Becomes Legally Haunted: Stambovsky v. Ackley, The “Ghostbuster” Ruling

Posted by: Sarah Friedman

A full page woodcut illustration showing a magistrate preparing to torture a prisoner who is bound, while other officials look on.

Witchcraft and a Haunted Case of Torture in Joost de Damhouder’s Praxis Rerum Criminalium (1555)

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

Virginia’s Witch Duck: Grace Sherwood

Posted by: Jennifer Davis

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When Loans Become Cheesy

Posted by: Heather Casey

An Interview with Maximilian Spitzley, Foreign Law Intern

Posted by: Jenny Gesley

Christy Amatos, Assistant Parliamentarian, Secretary of the Senate, official portrait in Washington, DC on September 16, 2024. (Official U.S. Senate photo by Ryan Donnell)

A Congress.gov Interview with Christy Amatos, Assistant Parliamentarian for the US Senate

Posted by: Taylor Gulatsi

St Vincent Parrot (2). Photo by Flickr user Mark Morgan. May 29, 2015. Used under CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/.

“Wholly Irreplaceable”—Endangered Species in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the CITES Convention

Posted by: Ruth Levush

Modernizing Congressional Data – Senate Legislation and Amendments on Congress.gov

Posted by: Taylor Gulatsi

Jai-Len Williams and Yu Chen Tsai, Photo by Jai-Len Williams

International Women Empowerment at the Law Library of Congress

Posted by: Ruth Levush