Abolishing ancient laws in England is often no easy task. A significant degree of research is involved before these laws are amended or abolished. The research has to be particularly thorough to avoid one of the oldest – that of unintended consequences. The issue of thoroughly researching laws was demonstrated several years ago when the government was …
The following is a guest post by Donna Sokol, Special Assistant to the Law Librarian of Congress. This was an eventful week for the Law Library! The Library of Congress’ largest single event of the year, the National Book Festival, took place this past Saturday and Sunday. In the photo below, our Stacks Services manager, …
As we did with AALL, we decided to collect feedback from Law Library staff about their participation in this year’s National Book Festival (NBF). As I noted in last week’s post, this is the Law Library’s second year for participating in the National Book Festival and here is what some of the Law Library participants had to …
The following is a guest post by Laney Zhang, our specialist on Chinese law at the Law Library of Congress. Enjoy! While looking through the Law Library of Congress’s collection of a set of valuable Chinese judicial gazettes from the Minguo (or Republican) Period (1912-1949), I came across a picture of the Supreme Court (da …
This has been a busy week for the Law Library of Congress. We have unveiled Congress.gov (our new legislative website), celebrated Constitution Day, and to round the week out, we are preparing for the National Book Festival. This will be the Law Library’s second year at the National Book Festival. Our staff will be manning …
The following is a guest blog by Betty Lupinacci. It is based on a presentation she gave to the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress. While the Library of Congress’ subject-driven classification system was developed in the late 19th, early 20th centuries, Law’s Class K portion of that schedule was …
Last week, as I scanned news items from across the Pacific, a particular story caught my eye. A sunken pirate ship laden with treasure. Massacre of the crew by island warriors. A British boy that lived to tell the tale of his adventures in the islands. It sounded like something Robert Louis Stevenson or Daniel …
The following is a guest post by Peter Roudik, Director of Legal Research at the Law Library of Congress. In addition to his administrative duties, Peter provides jurisdictional coverage for Russia and other former Soviet republics and explains legal developments in these countries to the Law Library’s patrons. Russia is currently the subject of discussion …
The following is a guest post by Dante Figueroa, Senior Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. Dante has written many blog posts on a variety of subjects: Canon Law Update; Citizenship in the Vatican City State; Medieval Canon Law; and The Papal Inquisition in Modena, just to mention a few. While reviewing …
The following is a guest post by Shameema Rahman, Legal Reference Specialist in our Public Services Division. Her most recent post was: Using Secondary Legal Resources to Locate Primary Sources. As a Law Library of Congress reference librarian I am often asked this question by our patrons. THOMAS and the Government Printing Office’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) website are great sources …