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Data Privacy Day ~ January 28, 2020

by dnorwood | January 23, 2020 | Cybersecurity | 0 Comments

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

by dnorwood | January 16, 2020 | Historical Dates, U.S. Constitution | 0 Comments

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

by GW Law Library | December 18, 2019 | Services | 0 Comments

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

by GW Law Library | December 15, 2019 | U.S. Constitution | 0 Comments

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

by GW Law Library | December 5, 2019 | Inter-library loan | 0 Comments

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

Dec 1, 2019 | Historical Dates

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

Nov 25, 2019 | Special Collections

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!

Nov 19, 2019 | 5 Things You Need to Know, Foreign & International, Librarians, Library Staff

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......

A Word from the Director | No. 1

Nov 19, 2019 | Services

GW Law Library Director, Scott Pagel, is starting a...

Honoring All Veterans!

Nov 11, 2019 | Historical Dates, Holidays, Military Law

GW Law Library proudly salutes those who have served in the armed forces. Thank you all for your dedication, sacrifice, and invaluable service. Be sure to check out our Military Justice research guide, which provides various legal resources and articles on military...

Rachel Carson and the Birth of the EPA

Nov 5, 2019 | Environmental, Exhibits & Displays

To celebrate GW’s Environmental Law Program’s 50th anniversary, the law library’s current display recognizes Rachel Carson’s influence on the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, and environmental policy in the United States at large. Rachel Carson...

Welcome to Witchtober Pt. 6: Sarah Osborne

Oct 28, 2019 | Cases, Collection Highlights, Legal History, Special Collections

Image from "Witchcraft in Salem village in 1692 : together with some account of other witchcraft prosecutions in New England and elsewhere" by Winfield F. Nevins, 1892. Born in Watertown, MA in 1643, Sarah Osborne (Osburn) was the wife to Robert Prince. Prince passed...

Welcome to Witchtober Pt. 5: Abigail Williams

Oct 23, 2019 | Cases, Collection Highlights, Legal History, Special Collections

Image from "The history of witches and wizards : giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Sweedland, France and New England : with their confession and condemnation" by W.P., 1760. Abigail Williams, niece of Samuel Parris’ was born in 1680, and...

Welcome to Witchtober Pt. 4: Tituba

Oct 22, 2019 | Cases, Collection Highlights, Legal History, Special Collections

Image from "The history of witches and wizards : giving a true account of all their tryals in England, Scotland, Sweedland, France and New England : with their confession and condemnation" by W.P., 1760. Tituba was born in South America where she was captured and sold...

Welcome to Witchtober Pt. 3: Samuel Parris

Oct 17, 2019 | Cases, Collection Highlights, Legal History, Special Collections

Image from "A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials" by M.V.B. Perley, 1911. Born in England in 1653, Samuel Parris moved with his family to Barbados and later to Boston, where he attended Harvard. Samuel became the pastor of Salem in 1689, and soon...

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