An Interview with Laura Schwarz, Foreign Law Intern
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog post is an interview with Foreign Law Intern Laura Schwarz.
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Law Library of Congress Report Discusses Tax and Investment Incentives
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 …
Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
Ibrahim Muteferrika, First Muslim Printer of the Ottoman Empire
Posted by: Jennifer Davis
Today's blog post brings us an insightful and educational history of the first Muslim printer in the Ottoman Empire, Ibrahim Müteferrika.
Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Pic of the Week
Join Us on 7/27 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar on Climate Change Litigation in Europe and Australia
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog post announces the upcoming foreign, comparative, and international law webinar titled "Climate Change Litigation in Europe and Australia" on July 27, 2023.
Posted in: Event, Law Library
Online Legal Reports Collection Surpasses 4,000 Historical and Contemporary Reports
Posted by: Stephen Mayeaux
The Law Library is happy to announce that our collection of legacy and contemporary reports has grown to over 4,000. This summer, we plan to announce a new update to our crowdsourcing campaign, with the release of several hundred additional digitized reports that were published over the last couple years and which would benefit greatly from volunteer transcriptions to help ensure accurate full-text searchability of our collection.
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Spring 2023 Program: CRS Bill Summaries
Posted by: Jennifer González
One of our spring 2023 projects is working on the CRS Bill Summaries and this is a description of the project and the volunteers and interns that are making it happen.
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
The blog post recounts the history of international women's day with a particular focus on Germany. It surveys legislation and progress on gender equality in Germany and the European Union.
Posted in: Global Law, In the News, Women's History
New Law Library Report on Asylum Application Processes Published
Posted by: Jenny Gesley
This blog post introduces the recently published report "Asylum Application Processes" of the Law Library of Congress, which reviews the asylum application processes in nine selected jurisdictions, in particular processes involved in determining whether an asylum seeker is in need of international protection.
Posted in: Global Law, Law Library, Legal Reports
New Law Library Report Addresses Repatriation of Immigration Detainees’ Remains
Posted by: Ruth Levush
Law Library of Congress report examines funding for repatriation and other aspects of handling the death of detainees in immigration custody in Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
Posted in: Global Law, Legal Reports