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

Posted by: Anna Price

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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”

Posted by: Taylor Gulatsi

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

Posted by: Jennifer González

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

Posted by: Sarah Friedman

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

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

Virginia’s Witch Duck: Grace Sherwood

Posted by: Jennifer Davis

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When Loans Become Cheesy

Posted by: Heather Casey

An Interview with Maximilian Spitzley, Foreign Law Intern

Posted by: Jenny Gesley

Christy Amatos, Assistant Parliamentarian, Secretary of the Senate, official portrait in Washington, DC on September 16, 2024. (Official U.S. Senate photo by Ryan Donnell)

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

Posted by: Taylor Gulatsi