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Posted by: Robert Brammer
We have previously written about dueling, a practice by which gentleman who considered themselves of equal social standing would respond to a serious insult by fighting, sometimes to the death, with pistols. Many of these duels were fought at the Bladensburg Dueling Ground, located just outside the boundaries of Washington, D.C. One of my favorite …
Posted in: Collections, Law Library
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
The Law Library of Congress highlights new titles concerning Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Mexico for Hispanic Heritage Month.
Posted in: Collections, Hispanic American History, Law Library
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a guest post by Luis Acosta, chief of one of the Law Library’s foreign, comparative, and international law divisions. Luis also recently wrote a post about a report on education as a constitutional right in foreign countries. The doctrine of sovereign immunity, or state immunity, is an international law principle that limits …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Legal Reports
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
The following is a tale of World War I legal history with a literary twist. (Working at the world’s largest library, with books on every subject, I could hardly leave the literary aspect out, could I?) I have previously written about New Zealand’s involvement in World War I, particularly in the Gallipoli campaign, and related …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, World War I
Posted by: Ruth Levush
The following is a guest post by Ozlem Aydin Sakrak. Ozlem is an attorney with the Office of the Legal Advisor of the Turkish Treasury. She recently completed her internship in the Law Library’s Global Legal Research Center and is about to return to Ankara. We extend our best wishes to her for a continued successful career in her home country. …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Jeanine Cali
The following is a guest post by Cynthia Jordan, Senior Writer-Editor at the Law Library of Congress. As the program manager for the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation Program on Demography, Technology, and Criminal Justice at the Library of Congress, I am pleased to welcome Orin S. Kerr as the Scholar-in-Residence for the program. As Scholar-in-Residence, …
Posted in: Guest Post, Law Library
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
In today's blog post, rare book librarian Nathan discusses David Hoffman, an early American legal educator who taught a natural law inflected jurisprudence.
Posted in: Collections, Education, Event
Posted by: Taylor Gulatsi
Today's blog interview is with Scholar-in-Residence at the Law Library of Congress, Dr. Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg.
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, Interview, Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
Today's blog post announces the upcoming Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar titled "The European Convention on Human Rights at 75+ - Toothless Tiger or Effective Enforcer?," that will be presented at 2:00 PM EST on February 26th via Zoom.
Posted in: Education, Event, Global Law, Law Library