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Posted by: Robert Brammer
This is a guest post by Kayahan Cantekin, a foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. In many countries around the world, discussions on whether and how to reopen schools continue to preoccupy people, especially in light of the unpredictable nature of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here in …
Posted in: Law Library, Legal Reports
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
August 1, 2020, marks the 40th anniversary of Vigdis Finbogadottir's inauguration as President of Iceland on August 1, 1980. She was the first woman to be democratically elected president in any nation. Learn more about her and the Icelandic Presidency in this blog post.
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Law Library, Women's History
Posted by: Robert Brammer
On January 6, 1874, Robert B. Elliot, an African American representative, from South Carolina debated a landmark civil rights bill on the floor of Congress against the former vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens. Robert B. Elliott served as a prominent delegate to the 1868 South Carolina State Constitutional Convention and was later elected to the …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Bailey DeSimone
Post describing the 1950 “investigation on a Government-wide scale of homosexuality and other sex perversion” and highlighting parts of the report contained in the Library's Serial Set
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, LGBTQ
Posted by: Robert Brammer
The life of Josiah Walls, an African American Congressmen from the State of Florida.
Posted in: African American History, Law Library
Posted by: Nathan Dorn
This post commemorate Jewish American Heritage Month by recounting the story of the first Jewish person to be elected to a popular assembly in American history, Francis Salvador
Posted in: Jewish American History, Law Library
Posted by: Elin Hofverberg
The following post is written by Dante Figueroa, a senior legal information analyst at the Law Library of Congress. He has recently written on the Italian Parliamentary Library and Spanish Legal Documents (15th to 19th Century). As of March 11, 2020, 10,590 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in Italy, with an additional 827 dead from …
Posted in: Global Law, Guest Post, In the News
Posted by: Robert Brammer
If you walked by this building across from the United States Capitol, you would instantly recognize it as the United States Supreme Court building that was constructed to house the Court in 1935. Visitors to Washington often climb its steps and look up at the words printed on its portico, “Equal Justice Under Law.” However, …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Tynesha Hubbard
Today’s interview is with Peter Quinn, a Writer-Editor in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Describe your background. I was born in New York City but spent most of my childhood on the south shore of Long Island in the village of Bellport. It’s a waterfront community that survives on revenue from …
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