New Era, New Law Number
Posted by: Laney Zhang
History and overview of the numbering of legal acts in Japan based on the year of the Japanese emperor.
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
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Posted by: Laney Zhang
History and overview of the numbering of legal acts in Japan based on the year of the Japanese emperor.
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
The following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist who covers Japan and other countries in East and Southeast Asia. Sayuri has previously written posts for In Custodia Legis on various topics, including Japanese Criminal Legal System as Seen Through the Carlos Ghosn Case, Disciplining Judges for “Bad Tweets”, Engagement under Japanese Law and Imperial House Rules, Is the Sound of Children Actually Noise?, How …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Ruth Levush
The following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, a senior foreign law specialist who covers Japan and various other countries in East and Southeast Asia. Sayuri has previously written posts for In Custodia Legis on various topics, including Disciplining Judges for “Bad Tweets”, Engagement under Japanese Law and Imperial House Rules, Is the Sound of Children Actually Noise?, How to Boost your Medal Count in …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
The following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist who covers Japan and various other countries in East and Southeast Asia. Sayuri has previously written posts for In Custodia Legis on various topics, including Engagement under Japanese Law and Imperial House Rules, Is the Sound of Children Actually Noise?, How to Boost your Medal Count in the Olympics, South Korean-Style, Two Koreas Separated …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
The following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist who covers Japan and various other countries in East and Southeast Asia. Sayuri has previously written posts for In Custodia Legis on various topics, including Is the Sound of Children Actually Noise?, How to Boost your Medal Count in the Olympics, South Korean-Style, Two Koreas Separated by Demilitarized Zone, English Translations of Post-World War …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post
Posted by: Hanibal Goitom
Today’s interview is with Jieun Chang, foreign law intern at the Law Library of Congress. Jieun holds a J.D. and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Information. Enjoy! Describe your background I was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and came to the United States after getting married. I lived in California …
Posted in: Law Library, Interview
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This post is coauthored by Jenny Gesley and Sayuri Umeda, foreign law specialists at the Global Legal Research Center. At some point or another, all of us have been exposed to children’s noise, be it as a parent or a neighbor, at the playground or at a school. And did we not wish for the noise …
Posted in: Global Law
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist who covers Japan and various other countries in East and Southeast Asia, and Jieun Chang, foreign law intern at the Global Legal Research Directorate. Sayuri has previously written posts for In Custodia Legis on various topics, including Two Koreas Separated by Demilitarized Zone, English Translations of Post-World …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News
Posted by: Kelly Buchanan
While a foreign concept here in the United States, a requirement that anyone who owns a television (or even just a radio) pay a “license fee” to help fund public broadcasting exists in a number of countries around the world. Such fees can be controversial and a number of countries have repealed them over the past few decades, …
Posted in: Global Law, In the News