While the new year has just kicked off, we are excited to share the most viewed blog posts of last year. We published 192 new posts on this blog, In Custodia Legis, in 2024. These posts are authored by staff, both on the blog team and guest bloggers, as well as intern bloggers, from across different parts of the Law Library and the Library of Congress. The blog team features representatives from our team of reference librarians, foreign law specialists, staff who manage our physical and digital collections, and those who work on events and outreach. In an attempt to introduce our team to our readers, we also published interviews with various interns and staff, as well as guests and colleagues, and interesting pictures in our Pic of the Week series from staff travel or collection items.
Additionally, in 2024, we added two new categories to our blog to aid in searching through content. The Legal Reports category features 111 blog posts that highlight and describe newly published Law Library legal reports. These reports focus on issues of foreign and comparative international law or domestic law and are written by our foreign legal specialists and reference librarians. The second category added was Frequently Asked Legal Questions (FALQs), which answer questions related to different legal happenings throughout the world. At this time, we currently have 81 FALQs published on the blog.
As always, we hope you have enjoyed reading the posts as much as we have enjoyed writing them, and that you will continue to visit the blog. No need to fret if you missed a post; you can catch up by browsing through the different months and categories, or even by looking at what particular authors have contributed.
Here are the top 10 posts that received the most views in 2024, with number one being the top-viewed post:
10. The Life and Trial of Anne Bonny
9. Modern Piracy and the United States Code
8. FALQs: Guyana-Venezuela Territorial Dispute
7. Dolly Parton Statue at the Sevier County Courthouse – Pic of the Week
6. Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office Spurs Possible Law Change
5. The History of the U.S. Bar Exam, Part I – The Law’s Gatekeeper
4. Thomas Mundy Peterson, the First African American Man to Cast a Ballot
3. As a Matter of Law, Is a Taco a Sandwich?
2. Interim Government and the Constitution of Bangladesh
1. Remembering José Rizal, Filipino Revolutionary
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