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Posted by: Jennifer González
This winter, the Law Library of Congress celebrated a significant milestone for the foreign legal gazettes collection with over 30,000 gazette issues now available online. Additionally, we added three new foreign legal gazette collections for Argentina, Chile, and Rwanda.
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Posted by: Jennifer González
In fall 2023, the Law Library of Congress added foreign legal gazettes for the countries of Grenada, Italy, and the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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Posted by: Taylor Gulatsi
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.
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Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This pic of the week shows the "Alabama room" in Geneva, Switzerland, where the Alabama arbitration between the United States and Britain took place in 1872.
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Posted by: Jennifer González
In summer 2023, the Law Library of Congress added foreign legal gazettes for the countries of Philippines, Burkina Faso, Kenya, and Botswana.
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Posted by: Alea Al-Aghbari
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 …
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Posted by: Jennifer González
In spring 2023, the Law Library of Congress added foreign legal gazettes for the countries of Costa Rica, Gabon, and Ecuador.
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Posted by: Jennifer González
In winter 2023, the Law Library of Congress added foreign legal gazettes for the countries of Tunisia, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, and the Mexican states of Coahuila de Zaragoza, Jalisco, and Colima.
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Posted by: Jennifer González
King Henry IV of England forbade transmutation, a principle of alchemy, in the Act Against Multiplication of 1404.
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