Snooper’s Top #6: Legal Webcasts for the Masses (that’s us)!
Here’s a quick and easy Snooper’s Tip — a way to keep up with legal topics that’s as simple as two words: “tele” and “vision” or “Web” and “cast.” It’s offered through an authoritative source (which we’re always on the lookout for here), the Law Library of Congress. established in 1832. The Law Library is now the world’s largest law library, with a collection of over three million volumes covering virtually every jurisdiction in the world.
The Law Library says about itself that it “serves a wide range of functions, some better known than others. The Law Library provides research and reference assistance, oversees the preeminent legal collection available, and houses an international staff of foreign law attorneys. . . The Law Library of Congress provides foreign and comparative legal and legislative information services to national and global researchers through its Foreign Law Specialists.”
Most of its collection is unreachable via the Internet but one way to get some of its expertise is through its webcasts. Presently, there’s about a dozen webcasts available for viewing, and here’s a some of the topics (thoughtful as ever, I’ve hyperlinked a couple for you to sample directly):
— No Greater Challenge: Assessing Legal Responses to Terrorism
— Separate Branches, Balanced Powers: Madison’s Legacy
— Perspectives on Childhood and the Law
— Extraordinary Rendition: Constitutional Issues
— Indian Religious Freedom: To Litigate or Legislate?
So, put your feet up, prepare a quart of gin and tonics, make some liver & onion flavored popcorn, and get you some legal . . . on teevee!
(By the way, you can subscribe to the webcasts RSS feed at the URL above. Snooper’s Tips will be looking for more sites having authoritative law and legislative webcasts, so, heh heh, stay tuned.)
