Today’s blog post is a guest post by Assistant Librarian for Legal Research at the Law Library of Congress, Peter Roudik. Peter has previously authored the following posts for In Custodia Legis: Murder as Statecraft, Legal
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While 2026 has just rolled in, we are excited to share the most-viewed blog posts of 2025. We published 124 new posts to this blog, In Custodia Legis, in 2025. These posts are authored by staff, both on the
This was a great year for Congress.gov. We built upon the work from last year and continued to migrate and improve the Century of Lawmaking content on Congress.gov. In February, we added the Congressional Globe to the site and
The following is a guest post by Esra Eroğlu, a foreign law intern working with Foreign Law Specialist Jenny Gesley at the Global Legal Research Directorate of the Law Library of Congress.
On a recent trip to Philadelphia,
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This is a guest post by the Law Librarian of Congress, Aslihan Bulut.
Aslihan Bulut. Photograph by Shawn Miller.
Dear In Custodia Legis readers and Law Library of Congress patrons, colleagues, and friends:
As the holiday season unfolds, I
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The Congress.gov website team is always working to
