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30 Oct 2018, 8:00 am by Guest Blogger
Most members of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English-speaking world—from Matthew Hale and William Blackstone to James Otis and Samuel Adams—assumed that constitutions were fixed but changing. [read post]
7 Oct 2018, 2:00 am by NCC Staff
James Otis, a firebrand lawyer, had popularized the phrase “taxation with representation is tyranny” in a series of public arguments. [read post]
15 Aug 2018, 9:51 am by Eugene Volokh
Goodman has also cited the Allman Brothers, Bo Diddley, Bruce Springsteen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Guns N Roses, Johnny Cash, the Kinks, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Madonna, Neil Young, REM, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Petty, U2, and the Yardbirds. [read post]
11 Mar 2018, 12:06 pm by Steve Kalar
  Judge “Hang ‘em High” Hudson and Adjunct Professor William Otis are two Commission candidates that have elicited strong views. [read post]
1 Mar 2018, 10:22 am by Kent Scheidegger
President Trump today announced nominations to the United States Sentencing Commission.Judge William Pryor of the Eleventh Circuit, a current member and acting chairman, is nominated as chairman.William Otis is nominated as a member of the commission. [read post]
12 Dec 2017, 8:20 am by Alfred Brophy
William Ossipow & Dominik Gerber, The Reception of Vattel’s Law of Nations in the American Colonies: From James Otis and John Adams to the Declaration of Independence, 521–555. [read post]
10 Dec 2017, 3:29 pm
Redding’s sudden death thrust him into the ranks of a mythic group of musical performers that included Bix Beiderbecke, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, Charlie Parker, Buddy Holly, Patsy Cline, and Redding’s own favorite, Sam Cooke––artists whose careers ended not only before their time but in their absolute prime, when there was every reason to expect that their finest work was yet to come.... [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 7:20 pm by Bill Otis
"If we are to have an effective death penalty, as the Supreme Court has said the Constitution allows, then, at some point, the opportunity for litigation must come to an end," William Otis told Bloomberg BNA via email. [read post]
25 Jun 2017, 3:00 pm by Bill Otis
Otis, an adjunct law professor at Georgetown University who was a special counsel for President George H.W. [read post]
25 May 2017, 7:33 am by Bill Otis
I was a bit befuddled:"Awarding a peace prize to a group that foments violent demonstrations is enough to give irony a bad name," said William Otis, a professor of law at Georgetown and a former federal prosecutor. [read post]
16 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Guest Blogger
  Paper money is the critical issue in the contest between William Jennings Bryan a [read post]
12 Mar 2017, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Sharfstein, Vanderbilt Law School, has published Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War with W. [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 1:00 pm by Michael Rushford
  Others, including frequent contributor Bill Otis have done yeoman's work to flush out the deceptive claims of race baiting politicians, academics and pundits. [read post]
7 Jul 2016, 5:50 am by Bill Otis
 But four well-regarded former federal prosecutors  -- Attorney General and Judge Michael Mukasey; former Deputy Attorney General Rudy Giuliani; former Division Chief Andy McCarthy of the USAO for the Southern District of New York; and former Appellate Chief for the Eastern District of Virginia (now Georgetown Law Professor) William Otis have all said that a prosecution could have been brought and probably would have succeeded. [read post]
6 Mar 2016, 5:54 am by SHG
Then again, Otis was never behind the wheel. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 6:39 pm by Bill Otis
"Three people, including two children, are dead today because of early release from a duly imposed, lawful and fully deserved federal drug trafficking sentence," an outraged Georgetown law professor, William Otis, wrote on the Crime and Consequences blog. [read post]
8 Nov 2015, 11:36 pm by Steve Baird
For example, when Otis Spunkmeyer registered Got Cookies? [read post]