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.
Today on the blog, we reflect on the top ten most-viewed Global Legal Monitor articles and Legal Research Reports produced by the Law Library of Congress in 2023.
Clara Barton is well known as the “angel of the battlefield,” who tended to wounded soldiers during the Civil War, but she also played an important role in the United States’ entry into an international treaty. Following the Geneva Conference of 1863, the first treaty of the Geneva Convention was ratified by 12 nations in …
The Law Library of Congress recently published a new legal report, titled: "School Bus Safety Requirements: Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, Iceland, Mexico, Russia, United Arab Emirates."
Law Library report on "Legal Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors" Published. It provides information on the laws that apply to the protection and restrictions on eligibility for asylum for unaccompanied minors.
The following is a guest post by Louis Myers, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. Louis has authored several blog posts for In Custodia Legis, including New Acquisition: The Trial of Governor Picton, A Case of Torture in Trinidad, Indigenous Law Research Strategies: Settlement Acts, Looking into the Past: Space Telescopes and the Law of …
On March 30, 2023, the Vatican issued a joint statement repudiating the “doctrine of discovery” and terra nullius. The doctrine of discovery was used as the legal foundation for taking the land of Indigenous people by Europeans, and for the establishment of residential schools; as Justice Marshall wrote, “The European governments asserted the exclusive right …