Single-Use Plastics & the Law
We're as excited about taking care of the environment here at GW Law as we are about the 50th anniversary of our International Environmental Law program! Our latest display, "Single-Use Plastics & the Law," explores the impact of single-use plastics on the...
Belva Lockwood – First Women to Argue Before the Supreme Court
Belva Lockwood, a graduate in 1873 of the the the National University Law School (now GW Law), became the first woman member of the Supreme Court bar and the first to argue a case before the Supreme Court. Once she had completed her course work, the law school...
Data Privacy Day ~ January 28, 2020
Data Privacy Day is a global effort to "empower individuals and business to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust." January 28 was recognized as Data Privacy Day by S. Res. 337, 113th Cong. (2014). Get involved by taking simple steps to safeguard your own...
Eighteenth Amendment
On January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified, after years of campaigning by prohibition proponents. The amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale or distribution of "intoxicating liquors" within the United States. The Volstead Act was passed later in...
Season’s Greetings
The Jacob Burns Law Library wishes everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday season. The Law Library is open December 18 to December 20, 9:00am - 4:45pm. The Law Library is closed for the University's Winter Holiday from Saturday, December 21, 2019, through January 1,...
Bill of Rights Ratified
On this day in 1791, the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution were ratified. The Bill of Rights, as these Amendments came to be known, guaranteed personal liberties with the federal government. The First Amendment alone included the right to...
200 Million and Counting
In November 2019, a milestone was reached in the world of libraries and interlibrary resource sharing: the submission of the 200 millionth request from a library to obtain a copy of an article needed by one of its faculty. The library that placed that request was...
Rosa Parks Arrested: December 1, 1955
Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to obey an Alabama law and city ordinance that required African Americans to sit at the back of the bus and to give up their seats on the bus to make room for white passengers. Mrs. Parks was an active...
Rare Books Amplify Learning
GW undergraduate students enrolled in the freshman writing course Art in the Age of Shakespeare visited the Law Library on November 15 to see law books printed during Shakespeare’s lifetime, and to view the exhibition The Duel in History: Laws, “Codes,” and Censure....
Welcome to GW Law Library, Traci Emerson!
We'd like to welcome our new Reference & Foreign International Law Librarian, Traci Emerson! Traci was able to jump right into the swing of things this Fall 2019. She's already making her impact on the students, faculty and staff! Although she's camera shy......
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