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Marc Abrahams — editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, host of the annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, and author of several books (including his latest, This is Improbable: Cheese String Theory, Magnetic Chickens and Other WTF Research) — leads a lively exploration of weird science, off-beat research, and things that go bump in the [...] [read post]
2 Jan 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Abraham Ascher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, has covered the whole sweep of Russian history in only 252 pages, from the rise of Kiev in the 9th century to the early 21st century. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 6:57 am by Gerard Magliocca
I am referring, of course, to the movie of Abraham Lincoln:  Vampire Hunter. [read post]
2 Feb 2009, 10:51 am
As we approach the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, our sixteenth president provides what sounds like a call to action regarding the policies and injustices that resulted from the law-free zone in Guantánamo: "To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy, and from positive enmity, among strangers, as nations, or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization. [read post]
23 Dec 2021, 9:06 am by ernst
Abraham, University of Virginia School of Law, and Tom Baker, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School have posted What History Can Tell Us About the Future of Insurance and Litigation After COVID-19:This Article, written for the annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy, chronicles a series of developments in American history that profoundly influenced the course of insurance and insurance law, in order to predict the post-Covid-19 future of these fields. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 8:43 am
Abraham serendipitously found a goat whose horns were stuck in the brambles and sacrificed it instead.No one else was there with Abraham to verify this story on the mountaintop, but from a modern perspective, we would not be surprised to discover Abraham was a schizophrenic hearing voices he believed to be God. [read post]
22 May 2008, 8:16 am
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) was a politician, diplomat, Congressman, and the longest-serving U.S. [read post]
8 Nov 2006, 10:01 pm
David Abraham (University of Miami - School of Law) has posted The Bush Regime from Elections to Detentions: A Bootstrapped Moral Economy of Carl Schmitt and Human Rights on SSRN. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 12:05 pm by liz
A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to be in Washington D.C. during the running of the “Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life” exhibition at the National Museum of American History. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 9:39 am
Abraham Lincoln has become synonymous with the American Civil War and the abolition of slavery. [read post]
8 Mar 2007, 9:42 am
Hat tip to Elliott Wilcox' Winning Trial Advocacy Techniques for hipping us to Abraham Lincoln's Advice to Young Lawyers, including the best advice for success in any field -- "always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is... [read post]
8 Jan 2012, 12:28 pm
  In this two part blog series, we review the recent Abraham decision and discuss its implications for Portland construction defect attorneys and their clients. [read post]
12 Feb 2009, 3:48 am
Today marks the 200th anniversary of attorney, Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, who gave up his law practice to become one of the greatest presidents of the United Sates. [read post]
21 Dec 2022, 7:01 am by Rick Hasen
AZ Mirror: Abraham Hamadeh got the green light from a Mohave County Superior Court judge to go to trial over an election he says was compromised by misconduct. [read post]
18 Mar 2007, 3:21 am
The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics by James Oakes (Norton) is reviewed by James M. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 12:46 pm by Walter Olson
Tweet Tags: Abraham Lincoln, loser pays, patent litigation Abraham Lincoln’s career-making patent case is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]