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Archive for the Education Category (193 posts)

New “Past Presentations” Webpage in Legal Research Institute

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Today marks the last webinar of 2020 for the Law Library, but don’t fear! We have created a new webpage so that you will be able to enjoy a selection of our past presentations again and again!

We have expanded our previous “webinar archive” to include many of our past presentations. On this page, we will include the PowerPoint slides or program booklets from the presentations, as well as links to recordings as available. Webinar recordings are added once processed and captioned, so periodically check for more content.

This is a screenshot of the homepage of the Legal Research Institute's Past Presentations page with a logo at the top, links to other pages below, a table of contents to the content below, and a picture of the first webinar under "United States Law" with a play button.

A screenshot of the new Past Presentations landing page, Legal Research Institute //www.loc.gov/law/learning/past-presentations.php

The logo for the Library of Congress Legal Research Institute has words in black and orange and substitutes the top half of James Madison for the "I" in "Library of Congress"

Law Library of Congress Legal Research Institute

This has been a banner year for webinars at the Law Library. We introduced the Legal Research Institute webpages to more quickly and easily connect patrons to our educational presentations and resources. We had 11 foreign law webinars that covered BREXIT, elections and campaign financing, artificial intelligence, international organizations, and of course, the responses to COVID-19 and the pandemic health emergencies. We held over 20 webinars on United States law, spanning case law, federal statutes, tracing federal regulations, Law Library collections, and Congress.gov.

The new “Past Presentations” webpage also allows us to highlight other presentations for which the recording is not available. We have included PowerPoint materials from our presentations on the Serial Set Digitization and the Foreign Legal Gazettes. We also have the program available for our annual Law Day Program and links to our Human Rights Day, Constitution Day, and the Kellogg Lecture presentations.

As we prepare for the 2021 webinar season, what topic would you like to see covered in 2021? Let us know in the comments!

October 2020 Law Library Webinars

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Once again we are publishing a brief post with information about the webinars being presented by the Law Library’s Public Services Division staff in October 2020. We have three webinars this month, including an introduction to Congress.gov, the Library’s legislative website. We will continue to publish separate posts about upcoming Foreign and Comparative Law webinars and you […]

September 2020 US Law Webinars

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As we did in our July 2020 post, we will continue to list all upcoming U.S. law webinars for each month in one post, thus providing you with one-stop shopping! We will continue to post information separately about our foreign law webinars, such as the September webinar, Worlds Apart: Legal Responses to COVID-19 in New Zealand […]

Einstein’s Fateful Letter

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Between July 18 and August 15, 1939, one of the most consequential letters in modern history was drafted by Albert Einstein and the Hungarian-born physicist Leo Szilard. The letter, which was eventually delivered to President Franklin Roosevelt,led to the Manhattan Project and the development of the first two atomic weapons. Szilard and two other Hungarian-born physicists, […]

Upcoming US Law Webinars – August 2020

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Over the past few months we have announced upcoming webinars in individual blog posts. We are switching things up a little and announcing all U.S. law webinars in one blog post for the month of August. We will continue notifying you about individual foreign law webinars, such as the upcoming presentation on global regulation of […]

Join Us on August 27 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar on “Hot Topics in Global AI Regulation”

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This post was co-authored by Jenny Gesley and Nicolas Boring, Foreign Law Specialists. Artificial intelligence (AI) plays an increasing role in our everyday life, from speech recognition to medical diagnostics. It should therefore be no surprise that, in several countries, AI has started to play a role in the relationship between governments and their citizens. […]

Join Us on June 30 for the FDLP Academy Webinar on Law Library Digital Collections

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The Law Library of Congress is engaging in rapid digitization of many rare collection materials and historical U.S. Government documents, as well as its collection of original research on foreign, comparative, and international law topics for Congress and federal agencies. Staff from the Digital Resources Division of the Law Library of Congress look forward to […]

It’s More than “Just a Bill” – Learn About U.S. Federal Statutes on June 18th at 11am ET

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This is a guest blog by Anna Price, a legal reference librarian at the Law Library of Congress. Over the past few months, the Law Library of Congress has modified its course offerings in a variety of ways. We have introduced the Legal Research Institute, migrated our U.S. legal research orientations online, and hosted webinars on […]