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An Interview with Bryant Taylor, Legislative Data Intern at the Congressional Research Service

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Join Us on 11/21 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar titled “Review of Law Library of Congress Research Reports Published in 2024”

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Whose Time is it Anyway? A Brief History of Standardized Time Zones in the United States

How a House Becomes Legally Haunted: Stambovsky v. Ackley, The “Ghostbuster” Ruling

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Witchcraft and a Haunted Case of Torture in Joost de Damhouder’s Praxis Rerum Criminalium (1555)

Virginia’s Witch Duck: Grace Sherwood

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When Loans Become Cheesy

An Interview with Maximilian Spitzley, Foreign Law Intern

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A Congress.gov Interview with Christy Amatos, Assistant Parliamentarian for the US Senate