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The Most Viewed Legal Research Reports and Global Legal Monitor Articles of 2025

Posted on by Taylor Gulatsi

The Law Library of Congress is unique in many ways. To accomplish our mission of providing authoritative legal research, reference, and instruction services, and access to an unrivaled collection of U.S., foreign, comparative, and international law materials, our staff publishes legal research reports that were produced at the request of Congress. Additionally, our staff publishes articles in the Global Legal Monitor, which is described as the Law Library’s global legal newspaper. Our staff comprises foreign and U.S.-trained foreign law specialists and law librarians from around the world, covering nearly every region and its respective jurisdictions. Many of these foreign law specialists have a law degree from their country of origin and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from a U.S. law school.

Foreign law specialists write reports and provide expert witness testimony to Congress and various executive branch agencies. If the office requesting the report grants permission, these reports are made available online via the Law Library’s website and on HeinOnline. You can access the Law Library’s reports by topic, region, and year of publication, or you can simply browse all the reports. These reports address specific legal issues for a particular country or present a comparative multinational analysis of legal approaches to an individual problem in various countries.

As mentioned, our foreign law specialists and law librarians also write for the Global Legal Monitor (GLM), an online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and developments worldwide. You can browse the GLM articles by topic, jurisdiction, or author. In 2025, we published 221 GLM articles.

Here is a countdown of the most-viewed legal research reports and Global Legal Monitor articles that were published in 2025, starting with the reports.

Most Viewed Legal Research Reports 

10. Israel: High Court Overturns Legislative Elimination of the Reasonableness Doctrine

9. Extended Producer Responsibility for Textiles in Selected Jurisdictions

8. Thailand: Civic Space Legal Framework

7. Indonesia: Civic Space Legal Framework

6. Permitted Uses of Antimicrobials in Animal Agriculture: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, European Union, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Russian Federation

5. Digital Services Act Implementation in Selected EU Member States

4. Israel: Tax Exemptions for Churches

3. Use of Artificial Intelligence During Times of Conflict: International Law, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, European Union, Finland, France, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

2. Regulation of IVF and Related Issues: France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom

1. Corporate Criminal Liability in Selected Jurisdictions

Most Viewed Global Legal Monitor Articles

10. Brazil: Senate Advances Discussions on Bill to Regulate AI Use

9. South Korea: Constitutional Court Upholds Presidential Impeachment

8. France: Bill Introduced to Require Labeling of AI-Generated Images on Social Networks

7. Israel: Knesset Adopts Controversial Reform on Appointing Judges

6. Mexico: New Transparency and Data Protection Laws Enacted

5. Thailand: Law Recognizing Same-Sex Marriage Takes Effect

4. Egypt: Labor Law Updated

3. China: Centralized Internet ID System Officially Launched

2. Germany: Amended Law Suspends Family Reunification for Certain Refugees

1. Chile: Framework Law on Cybersecurity Comes into Force

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Ask-a-Librarian: We Are Here for You

Posted on by Donna Sokol

This guest post is by the chief of the Law Library’s Public Services Division, Andrew Winston. Andrew has written several posts for the blog, including The Constitution Annotated–Impeachment Clauses, Federal Courts Web Archive Launched, A Visit to the Peace Palace Library, and The Revised Statutes of the United States: Predecessor to the U.S. Code.

Anna Price, legal reference librarian, at the Law Library of Congress Reading Room reference desk. Photo by Barbara Bavis. [Note: the photo is for illustrative purposes only; no staff are currently working in the Reading Room.]

Anna Price, legal reference librarian, at the Law Library of Congress Reading Room reference desk. Photo by Barbara Bavis. [Note: the photo is for illustrative purposes only; no staff are currently working in the Reading Room.]

Our reading room is closed, college campuses are quiet, and schools are empty. Learning, however, still continues. The Law Library wants to make sure that researchers know that we are still here for you, albeit online (and, alas, without the benefit of access to our print collection at the present).

If you’ve never taken advantage of our Ask-a-Librarian service, allow us to introduce you!

Through our online reference service, we can help you with:

  • Legal and legislative research assistance for US federal and state, foreign, international, and comparative law
  • Queries on resources unique to the Law Library of Congress

We typically respond within five business days (often faster!).

We can assist you by directing you to resources that may help answer your question or advance your research. However, there are a few things we cannot help you with:

  • Providing legal advice, interpretation, or analysis which could be interpreted as the practice of law (that includes interpreting pending or enacted laws and how they affect you)
  • Performing research for you or compiling bibliographies or legislative histories
  • Providing answers for student assignments

If you can’t find a resource on the Law Library website on your own, consider reaching out to us via Ask-a-Librarian. We’re here to help!

By the way, our colleagues in other parts of the Library of Congress are also here to help! Reference librarians from across the Library are monitoring all the Ask-a-Librarian sites and welcome your questions on other topics, too.