Join NT Wright, Danielle Strickland, Efrem Smith, and others at the Spiritual First Aid Summit.

Seats are still available for tomorrow's Constitution Day event! Kannon Shanmugam, head of the Supreme Court practice at Paul, Weiss, will speak about the role of the judiciary in our constitutional system and the relationship between the judiciary and the other branches of government.

Kannon is a partner in the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.  He heads the firm’s Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice and is managing partner of the firm’s Washington office. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s premier appellate advocates, Kannon has argued 27 cases before the Supreme Court, including several of the Court’s most significant recent business and criminal cases.  Beyond the Supreme Court, he has argued dozens of appeals in courts across the country.  In ranking Kannon in the first tier of appellate advocates nationwide, Chambers USA praised him as “brilliant” and “unflappable."
 
The discussion will take place at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, September 17, in the Mumford Room (LM-649), located on the sixth floor of the Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E. The program is free and open to the public. Registration is highly recommended.

Please register for this event via Eventbrite. 

The Law Library of Congress is excited to bring you a new series of webinars focused on foreign and comparative law. The Comparative Law Webinar Series of classes is designed to shed light on some of the comparative law issues researched by the foreign law experts at the Law Library of Congress. This entry in the series provides an overview of the EU and UK perspectives on Brexit, including the UK legal and political actions for Brexit, the Benn Act, the Withdrawal Agreement, art. 50 of the TEU, post-Brexit payments, and the future EU-UK relationship. The webinar will be held on Thursday, January 23rd at 2pm.

Click here for more information and to register perspectives-on-brexit.eventbrite.com.

We hope you can join us for the 2020 Supreme Court Fellows Program Annual Lecture! The Law Library of Congress and the Supreme Court Fellows Program will present a conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch on Thursday, Feb. 20 at 3:30 p.m. in the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium in the Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street S.E., Washington, D.C.

David M. Rubenstein, trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society and chair of the Madison Council of the Library of Congress, will moderate the program.

The event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Please register via Eventbrite: https://supct2020.eventbrite.com.

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at 202-707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

With the upcoming national election in Israel on March 2, the Law Library of Congress is holding a webinar from the Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series on “What You Need To Know About the Upcoming Israeli National Election.” The webinar will be held on February 27, 2020 at 10:00 am. To register to attend the webinar, use our Eventbrite link. 

The Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series of classes is designed to shed light on some of the foreign and comparative law issues researched by the foreign law experts at the Law Library of Congress.This entry in the series will address general principles of the Israeli government system, rules governing national election, the method of distribution in Knesset seats, government formation procedures, prime-ministerial qualifications and term limits and the legal implications of a Knesset Member’s indictment and immunity status on presidential discretion in assignment of government formation. Topics may be adjusted as warranted to address ongoing developments.

For more information on the webinar, please read our announcement blog post.

To celebrate the launch of the Herencia: Centuries of Spanish Legal Documents campaign, we will be hosting an on-site transcribe-a-thon here at the Library of Congress on March 19, 2020 at 5:00 pm ET! 

Register to join us in person in the Great Hall of the Thomas Jefferson Building for a fun evening of transcribing with fellow volunteers. You do not need to read Spanish, Latin, or Catalan to participate in this project!

Can't make it to the event? We will have a virtual transcribe-a-thon happening ALL DAY on March 19! Register as a virtual attendee to join a worldwide community of transcribers.

Want to know more about how to host a Transcribe-a-thon so you can join in virtually? Register for our upcoming webinar on instructions and tips for hosting a successful transcription event! We’ll cover how to join in on March 19 and how to organize independently.

The Orientation to Law Library Collections Webinar is designed for patrons who are familiar with legal research, and would instead prefer an introduction to the collections and services specific to the Law Library of Congress. This webinar is an online version of the one-hour onsite orientations taught by legal reference librarians from the Law Library of Congress. The webinar will be held on Wednesday, May 13th at 11am.

Click here for more information and to register orientation-law-library-collections-5-13-2020.eventbrite.com.

It was an idea whose time had come. NLM is well known and respected for hosting and sponsoring codeathons that bring together researchers and coders from diverse technical backgrounds together to create tools that solve relevant problems for the biomedical community in a collaborative—not competitive—way. But now NLM can also be known for bringing gender…

Researchers at the National Library of Medicine’s National Center for Biotechnology Information have created a new algorithm called scPopCorn (single-cell subpopulations comparison) to capture the differences among populations of cells from single-cell experiments. The algorithm, developed by my team is available at GitHub and is described in an article in Cell Systems (Y. Wang, J. Honka, and T.M. Przytycka, Cell…