We hope you can join the Law Library of Congress and the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on the Law Library of Congress, via Zoom, on December 11, 2025, at 3 p.m. for our Human Rights Day celebration!
To help celebrate the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this year’s event will draw on the Law Library’s foreign, comparative, and international law expertise by highlighting the impact the Declaration had, not only domestically, but also in several foreign jurisdictions.
Human Rights Day 2025. Graphic by Taylor Gulatsi.
The Law Librarian of Congress, Aslihan Bulut, will introduce the event. Professor Sarah Barringer Gordon, the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, will give an introduction the Declaration of Independence and moderate the discussion with our panelists. Law Library of Congress Foreign Law Specialists Kelly Buchanan, Hanibal Goitom, and Louis Gilbert will discuss the impact the Declaration of Independence had in New Zealand, Liberia, and Flanders, Belgium.
We hope you can join us!
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