Join us next Thursday, December 7, at 3:00 p.m. EST for Human Rights Day 2023: “Science Literacy and the Law.” This event will celebrate Human Rights Day with a lecture focused on scientific literacy and the law, as well as exonerations and how forensic science is critical to the administration of criminal justice. Dr. Sarah Cooper, who will provide this lecture, is an expert on the challenges that arise when legal systems and actors interact with scientific expertise. Science helps the law to understand the world in which legal policy, including human rights standards, must operate, but how valued is science literacy within law systems, like criminal trials, and by the community - lawyers - that monopolize them? Inspired by the National Academy of Sciences’ recommendation to expand our conceptions of science literacy, and drawing on the criminal justice system’s use of forensic science for context, this lecture will present ideas for how we can work towards answering these questions and, in doing so, build a stronger justice system for all. 

Please register here.

A Review of Recently Published Law Library of Congress Reports
November 30th at 2pm EDT.
Register here.

The Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series of classes is designed to shed light on some of the foreign and comparative law issues currently being researched by the foreign law and international law experts at the Law Library of Congress. This presentation will highlight some of the Law Library of Congress legal reports published in 2023, highlighting reports on immigration, artificial intelligence, environmental issues, and lobbying. The presentation will also review some of the most popular blog posts and Global Legal Monitor articles for the past year.

The webinar will be presented by Clare Feikert-Ahalt, senior foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress.

Join us on Thursday, December 7, at 3:00 p.m. EST for Human Rights Day 2023: “Science Literacy and the Law.” This event will celebrate Human Rights Day with a lecture focused on scientific literacy and the law, as well as exonerations and how forensic science is critical to the administration of criminal justice. Dr. Sarah Cooper, who will provide this lecture, is an expert on the challenges that arise when legal systems and actors interact with scientific expertise. Science helps the law to understand the world in which legal policy, including human rights standards, must operate, but how valued is science literacy within law systems, like criminal trials, and by the community - lawyers - that monopolize them? Inspired by the National Academy of Sciences’ recommendation to expand our conceptions of science literacy, and drawing on the criminal justice system’s use of forensic science for context, this lecture will present ideas for how we can work towards answering these questions and, in doing so, build a stronger justice system for all. 

Please register here.

Join us on Tuesday, December 5, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, join bibliographic and research instruction librarian Barbara Bavis for an Orientation to Legal Research Webinar focusing on Tracing Federal Regulations. This webinar will provide an overview of U.S. federal regulations, including information about the notice and comment rulemaking process; the publication and citation of regulations; and the tracing of regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations, to the proposed rule in the Federal Register, to the regulation’s docket. Freely-available governmental websites like Congress.gov, GovInfo, and Law.gov will be highlighted, as well as subscription databases that can be accessed at one’s local public law or academic library.

Please register here.

A Review of Recently Published Law Library of Congress Reports
November 30th at 2pm EDT.
Register here.

The Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series of classes is designed to shed light on some of the foreign and comparative law issues currently being researched by the foreign law and international law experts at the Law Library of Congress. This presentation will highlight some of the Law Library of Congress legal reports published in 2023, highlighting reports on immigration, artificial intelligence, environmental issues, and lobbying. The presentation will also review some of the most popular blog posts and Global Legal Monitor articles for the past year.

The webinar will be presented by Clare Feikert-Ahalt, senior foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress.

Join us on Tuesday, November 14, at 1:00 PM EST for the Orientation to Law Library Collections Webinar. This webinar provides information about the Law Library’s wide range of online resources, as well as our print collections. Some of the resources attendees will learn about include the Law Library’s research guides, digital collections, and the Guide to Law Online, among others. This month’s webinar will also feature a special appearance by law librarians from the Wisconsin State Law Library as part of our State Law Libraries Outreach Project. Presenting from Wisconsin will be State Law Librarian Amy Crowder and Access Services Librarian Carol Hassler.

Please register here.

 

Join us on Tuesday, November 14, at 1:00 PM EST for the Orientation to Law Library Collections Webinar. This webinar provides information about the Law Library’s wide range of online resources, as well as our print collections. Some of the resources attendees will learn about include the Law Library’s research guides, digital collections, and the Guide to Law Online, among others. This month’s webinar will also feature a special appearance by law librarians from the Wisconsin State Law Library as part of our State Law Libraries Outreach Project. Presenting from Wisconsin will be State Law Librarian Amy Crowder and Access Services Librarian Carol Hassler.

Please register here.

 

The mission of the Law Library of Congress is to provide authoritative legal research, reference and instruction services, and access to an unrivaled collection of U.S., foreign, comparative, and international law. Here are some of the new resources you may have missed recently.

In October, we published 19 posts to our blog, In Custodia Legis. Here are some highlights:

Law Library of Congress Report Discusses Tax and Investment Incentives

Join Us on 10/26 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar titled "Nordic Noir: Genealogy as a Criminal Investigation Technique in Denmark and Sweden"

Costa Rica Environmental Protections - Pic of the Week

Foraging for Mushrooms: A Quick Background

Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top – October of 2023

An Interview with Laura Schwarz, Foreign Law Intern

Observing Hispanic Heritage Month in Washington, D.C. – Pic of the Week

Foreign Legal Gazette Collections - Summer 2023 Recap

An Interview with Gerard Mosolo, Legal Research Fellow

The Law Library of Congress Invites Applications for the 2024 Guggenheim Scholars Program

Law Library Report on Legal Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors Published

Join us on Thursday, November 2, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, join senior legal reference librarian Ann Hemmens for an Orientation to Legal Research Webinar focusing on Federal Legislative History. This entry in the series provides an overview of U.S. federal legislative history resources, including information about the methods of identifying and locating them. In tackling this area of research, the focus will largely be on finding these documents online. Freely-available governmental websites like Congress.gov, GovInfo, and Law.gov will be highlighted, as well as subscription databases that can be accessed at one’s local public law or academic library.

Please register here.

Nordic Noir: Genealogy as a Criminal Investigation Technique in Denmark and Sweden
October 26th at 2pm EDT.
Register here: https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_SohKIlQATxGYSz5eNEWhbg

This webinar will address the use of genealogy as a criminal investigation technique in Denmark and Sweden. In 2020, the Swedish Police solved a 16-year-old cold case using forensic genetic genealogy. Earlier this year, the Danish and Swedish parliaments voted on legislation that would allow police to use DNA from genealogy research as a tool to solve crimes. The Danish Parliament approved the proposal and the law now allows investigative genetic genealogy to be used in limited cases, whereas the Swedish Parliament voted the proposal down. This webinar will describe how genealogy research and family DNA searches have been used in Denmark and Sweden, the legislation supporting their use, and how the national laws relate to the European Union rules on the right of privacy and family life, the GDPR, and the two countries’ international human rights obligations.

The webinar will be presented by Elin Hofverberg, foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress.

On Thursday, November 2, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, join senior legal reference librarian Ann Hemmens for an Orientation to Legal Research Webinar next month focusing on Federal Legislative History. This entry in the series provides an overview of U.S. federal legislative history resources, including information about the methods of identifying and locating them. In tackling this area of research, the focus will largely be on finding these documents online. Freely-available governmental websites like Congress.gov, GovInfo, and Law.gov will be highlighted, as well as subscription databases that can be accessed at one’s local public law or academic library.

Please register here.

Nordic Noir: Genealogy as a Criminal Investigation Technique in Denmark and Sweden
October 26th at 2pm EDT.
Register here: https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_SohKIlQATxGYSz5eNEWhbg

This webinar will address the use of genealogy as a criminal investigation technique in Denmark and Sweden. In 2020, the Swedish Police solved a 16-year-old cold case using forensic genetic genealogy. Earlier this year, the Danish and Swedish parliaments voted on legislation that would allow police to use DNA from genealogy research as a tool to solve crimes. The Danish Parliament approved the proposal and the law now allows investigative genetic genealogy to be used in limited cases, whereas the Swedish Parliament voted the proposal down. This webinar will describe how genealogy research and family DNA searches have been used in Denmark and Sweden, the legislation supporting their use, and how the national laws relate to the European Union rules on the right of privacy and family life, the GDPR, and the two countries’ international human rights obligations.

The webinar will be presented by Elin Hofverberg, foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress.

The mission of the Law Library of Congress is to provide authoritative legal research, reference and instruction services, and access to an unrivaled collection of U.S., foreign, comparative, and international law. Here are some of the new resources you may have missed recently.

In September, we hosted a Constitution Day event with a presentation by Professor Samantha Barbas from the University at Buffalo on Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan. You can watch a recording here.

In September, we published 16 posts to our blog, In Custodia Legis. Here are some highlights:

To Play or Not to Play: Video Game Ratings and the Law

An Interview with Elizabeth Osborne, Chief of the Public Services Division (PSD) of the Law Library of Congress

Join Us on 9/28 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar on Israel’s Legal Reforms

Watch a Recording of our Conversation with Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett

Sea Cellars and Wine Sellers: Legal Issues in the Underwater Wine-Aging Industry

An Interview with Yuechao Nie, Foreign Law Intern

On the Trail of Francis Channing Barlow: Military Prodigy and Legal Warrior Against Corruption.

An Update on the Congress.gov API

Key West Slave Ship Seizures and the Slave Trade in 19th Century Florida

An Interview with Louis Gilbert, Legal Research Fellow

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy and the Constitution

Join instructors Barbara Bavis and Robert Brammer on October 19th at 2:00 p.m. EDT for a Congress.gov Webinar. This orientation is designed to give a basic overview of Congress.gov. While the focus of the session will be searching legislation and the Congressional member information attached to the legislation, the new features of Congress.gov will also be highlighted.

Please register here.

On Thursday, October 12, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, join legal reference librarian Jason Zarin for an Orientation to Legal Research Webinar next month focusing on U.S. Federal Statutes. This entry in the series provides an overview of U.S. statutory and legislative research, including information about how to find and use the U.S. Code, the U.S. Statutes at Large, and U.S. federal bills and resolutions.

Please register here.

Join us Tomorrow at 1:00 PM EDT for the Orientation to Law Library Collections Webinar. This webinar provides information about the Law Library’s wide range of online resources, as well as our print collections. Some of the resources attendees will learn about include the Law Library’s research guides, digital collections, and the Guide to Law Online, among others. This month’s webinar will also feature a special appearance by the University of Georgia: Alexander Campbell King Law Library as part of our state law libraries outreach project. Presenting from Georgia will be TJ Striepe, director of the Alexander Campbell King Law Library, and Anne Burnett, foreign and international law librarian at the Alexander Campbell King Law Library from the University of Georgia.

Please register here.

 

Israel's Legal Reforms
September 28th at 2pm EDT.
Register here: https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_1EU-6XONRpKRGYto2TdXOQ/

This webinar will address Israel’s government’s reforms to overhaul the judiciary. The webinar will provide information on Israel’s constitutional framework and the main elements of the reforms. A discussion of the objectives, justifications, and potential impact of the reforms on the legal system will be included as well, and a review of the current status of the reforms will also be provided. 

The webinar will be presented by Ruth Levush, senior foreign law specialist in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress.

We hope you can join us for this online event!

Constitution Day 2023 – Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan
September 14 at 3:00 PM EDT.
Register here: https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_Zi4ajZpNQA-V3ozTYKTZXQ
University at Buffalo School of Law Professor Samantha Barbas will provide a lecture that discusses the roots of the U.S. Supreme Court’s New York Times v. Sullivan decision, which created the “actual malice” standard that a public official must prove in a successful suit for defamation. Professor Barbas’ lecture will focus on describing the origins of the New York Times v. Sullivan decision in the context of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

Join us on Tuesday, September 19, at 1:00 PM EDT for the Orientation to Law Library Collections Webinar. This webinar provides information about the Law Library’s wide range of online resources, as well as our print collections. Some of the resources attendees will learn about include the Law Library’s research guides, digital collections, and the Guide to Law Online, among others. This month’s webinar will also feature a special appearance by the University of Georgia: Alexander Campbell King Law Library as part of our state law libraries outreach project. Presenting from Georgia will be TJ Striepe, director of the Alexander Campbell King Law Library, and Anne Burnett, foreign and international law librarian at the Alexander Campbell King Law Library from the University of Georgia.

Please register here.

 

Join us this Thursday, September 7, at 1:00 p.m. EDT, as senior legal reference librarian Ann Hemmens provides an Orientation to Legal Research Webinar focusing on U.S. Case Law. This entry in the series will provide an overview of U.S. case law research, including information about the U.S. federal court system, the publication of court opinions, methods for researching case law, and information about locating records and briefs.

Please register here.

The mission of the Law Library of Congress is to provide authoritative legal research, reference and instruction services, and access to an unrivaled collection of U.S., foreign, comparative, and international law. Here are some of the new resources you may have missed recently.

In August, we published 6 Guide to Law Online: Nations of the World:

• Guide to Law Online: Oman
• Guide to Law Online: Pakistan
• Guide to Law Online: Palau
• Guide to Law Online: Panama
• Guide to Law Online: Papua New Guinea
• Guide to Law Online: Paraguay

In August, we published 13 posts to our blog, In Custodia Legis. Here are some highlights:

Join Us on 8/31 for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar on Law on Elections and Political Parties in Turkey

Sympathy for the Devil– Pic of the Week

Congress.gov New, Tip, and Top – August 2023 – Browse back to the First Congress

The Law Library's New Report on Public Prosecution Reform in South Korea

The Smithsonian Institution: The History of the World's Largest Museum and Research Complex

What’s in a Name? The Four U.S. States That Are Technically Commonwealths

New Law Library Report on Safety and Security of Artificial Intelligence Systems Published

Join Us for a Congress.gov Public Forum on September 13th!

Upcoming U.S. Law Webinars - September 2023

Join Us for Constitution Day 2023 - Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan

Ibrahim Muteferrika, First Muslim Printer of the Ottoman Empire

We hope you can join us for this online event!

Constitution Day 2023 – Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan
September 14 at 3:00 PM EDT.
Register here: https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_Zi4ajZpNQA-V3ozTYKTZXQ
University at Buffalo School of Law Professor Samantha Barbas will provide a lecture that discusses the roots of the U.S. Supreme Court’s New York Times v. Sullivan decision, which created the “actual malice” standard that a public official must prove in a successful suit for defamation. Professor Barbas’ lecture will focus on describing the origins of the New York Times v. Sullivan decision in the context of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

Eric William Ravilious (22 July 1903 a 2 September 1942) was a British painter, designer, book illustrator and wood-engraver.

He grew up in East Sussex, and is particularly known for his watercolours of the South Downs and other English landscapes.

Well known for his iconic work for Wedgwood, Ravilious is widely considered one of the key figures in mid-20th century British design but he was also one of the finest watercolourists of the century.
His astonishingly prolific career spanned peace and war. With the outbreak of World War II Ravilious was assigned to the Royal Navy as one of the first Official War Artists finding new ways to capture and preserve the fleeting record of passing timea|

Although he died at the age of only 39, Ravilious was largely responsible for the revival of English watercolour painting. He started out under the tutelage of Paul Nash at the Royal College of Art and although hugely versatile it was painting that Ravilious saw as his true vocation.

A film of his life, Drawn to War, came out in 2022:

The Seattle Times:

Kammerzell, a 27-year department veteran, first was disciplined in July 2021 after a detective complained that an insignia used by high-ranking generals in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich appeared on Kammerzell’s office door above his nameplate in September 2020.

An internal investigation concluded that Kammerzell knew full well the meaning of the insignia, which belonged to an “Obergruppenfuhrer” a a high official in Hitler’s dreaded paramilitary Schutzstaffel or SS, which was responsible for the systematic murders of millions of Jews and others in Europe during World War II.

Kammerzell also had been overheard joking about the Holocaust, according to the internal investigation, saying that his grandfather had died in the Holocaust a when he got drunk and fell out of a Nazi guard tower.