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Posted by: Jennifer González
Today marks the beginning of a new crop of summer interns at the Law Library. We in the Digital Resources Division have had the pleasure of working with 175 interns over the last six years, and this summer we welcome 45 more! Today’s interview is with Tori Stanek, who has worked as a remote metadata …
Posted in: Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Describe your background. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio with four younger brothers. Most of my family are active in the Croatian folk music scene, which I participated in as part of the Cleveland Junior Tamburitzans. I was also a Boy Scout and achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. What is your academic/professional history? I …
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Posted by: Jenny Gesley
On Sunday March 10, 2019, most states in the United States “sprang forward,” meaning the clocks were set one hour forward. Most of us have by now more or less adjusted to the time change. The reason that we adjust our clocks twice a year (“springing forward” and “falling back”) in the United States can …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
Tomorrow is National Skip the Straw Day and while all around Washington, D.C. people are skipping the straw or switching to non-plastic straws, it made me wonder about the current straw laws in the U.S., especially here in D.C., and how we got to this point. Throughout its history, the straw has received countless makeovers, but I …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Jim Martin
Describe your background My first encounter with the Library of Congress (LC) was as a young German legal historian with a fellowship to research the transplantation of European law and government structures into the original American colonies, in particular New Netherlands (New York). My chief adviser and director at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and …
Posted in: Collections, Interview
Posted by: Kelly McKenna
On Monday, December 10th, 2018, the Law Library of Congress invites you to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the UN adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a panel discussion, “Repatriating Native American Cultural Property and Remains.” Repatriation is the process whereby specific kinds of American Indian cultural items in a museum collection are …
Posted in: Event, Law Library
Posted by: Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico in the most catastrophic storm of island’s history since the Okeechobee Hurricane in 1928. The Category 4 storm entered through Yabucoa at 6:15 a.m., leaving behind massive destruction. Most of the island’s population was left without power, physical structures collapsed, and the people of Puerto Rico were devastated. …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Kelly McKenna
The Law Library had a dynamic presence at the 18th annual National Book Festival. We had 11 staff members volunteer at the festival from our Global Legal Collection Directorate, Public Services Division, Office of Administrative Operations, and Office of External Relations as well as Maria Soto, a new member of the ABA Standing Committee on the …
Posted in: Event, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
Fifty years ago, on January 31, 1968, Nauru became an independent nation. It is the smallest island republic in the world with a land area of just 8.1 square miles (“about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC“) and a population of around 10,000 people. Prior to independence, from 1947 onward, the island was subject to a …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law