The following is the first installment of a two-part guest post on Cryptocurrencies in the GCC by Muneera Al-Khalifa, legal research fellow, working with Foreign Law Specialist George Sadek at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. This post is part of our Frequently Asked Legal Questions (FALQs) series.
Cryptocurrencies…

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…

The Law Library of Congress is unique in many ways. To accomplish our mission of providing authoritative legal research, reference, and instruction services, and access to an unrivaled collection of U.S., foreign, comparative, and international law materials, our staff publishes legal research reports at the request of Congress. Additionally, our staff publishes articles in the…

We hope you can join us on January 28, 2025, at 1 p.m. EST for our latest Lunch and Learn webinar, “Locating Congressionally Mandated Reports.” This webinar is the latest installment in the Law Library’s lunchtime learning program. Earlier webinars in this series have covered federal legislative history research, the Law Library’s historical legal…

The following is a guest post by George Sadek, a foreign law specialist at the Law Library of Congress covering laws of Arabic-speaking countries and Islamic law. George has previously blogged about a variety of topics, including the New Multinational Report on the Acquisition of Citizenship through International Adoption, FALQs: Qatar’s New Counterterrorism…

The following is a guest post by Sayuri Umeda, a foreign law specialist who covers Japan and other countries in East and Southeast Asia in the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress. Sayuri has previously authored numerous posts for In Custodia Legis, including Food Delivery in Japan – History…

Today’s Congress.gov interview is with the former Director of LIMS in the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dalvinder Multani. 
Describe your background. 
I was born and raised in a small town named Tanda Urmar in the Punjab province of Northern India. I wanted to become a medical doctor…