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24 Sep 2020, 10:19 am by Sandy Levinson
  I am teaching a course this term on Abraham Lincoln, and one of the astounding things is the sheer nature of his speeches, including the now-famous Lyceum speech he gave at the age of 29 in Springfield. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 6:27 am
Oh, good lord, they were prancing around at the feet of the statue of Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
1 Oct 2019, 8:38 am by Ryan Scoville
” In this regard, U.S. practice matched European understandings with which the Framers were familiar: Abraham de Wicquefort, one of the Enlightenment’s leading commentators on diplomatic affairs, explained that a public minister must either be officially recognized as such by a receiving government or hold a letter of commission. [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 1:00 pm by Stewart Baker
Is George Bush to FISA what Abraham Lincoln was to habeas corpus? [read post]
25 Sep 2018, 6:21 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
Abraham, 30 N.Y.3d 325 (2017).While the defendant says its conduct was not reprehensible enough to warrant punitives, the district court  disagrees, reasoning in part as follows:There is evidence that at staff meetings between 2007 and August 2014 Quinones repeatedly referred to Plaintiff as “deaf,” and that he did so in a manner that was calculated to be demeaning and humiliating to her. [read post]
31 Oct 2016, 6:37 pm
He was a pretty decent lawyer, and one of his successful bids for congress only lasted two years, when by virtue of a promise he made, he did not seek reelection.At age 51, having lost his last two elections for the senate, Abraham Lincoln was elected the sixteenth president of the United States and went on to save the Union and become our greatest president. [read post]
26 Oct 2015, 1:50 pm by Danny O'Brien
They could begin now by raising this matter in another case now passing through the Ethiopian courts: that of Zelalem Workagegne, Yonatan Wolde, Abraham Solomon, and Bahiru Degu. [read post]
27 Jun 2022, 12:04 pm by Benjamin Pollard
Meltzer, Brookings senior fellow; Chris Miller, AEI visiting fellow; Abraham Newman, director at the Mortara Center for International Studies and professor at Georgetown University; Neena Shenai, AEI nonresident fellow; and Emily S. [read post]
18 Aug 2021, 10:43 am by Christiana Wayne
Drezner, Henry Farrell and Abraham L. [read post]
26 Aug 2020, 6:18 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
Abraham, 30 N.Y.3d 325 (2017), that the punitive damages test under the City law is less burdensome than under federal law (requiring only recklessness but not malice). [read post]
4 Oct 2016, 4:52 pm by Ilya Somin
Andrew Johnson, who became president after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, undermined the effectiveness of Reconstruction by impeding efforts to protect the rights of newly freed African-American slaves. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 7:00 am by Edward Piper
  On that note, the most succinct (and most memorable) summary of the rulings appears in Judge Trott’s short concurrence in Alexander: “Abraham Lincoln reportedly asked, ‘If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have? [read post]
13 Apr 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
Dirck's Abraham Lincoln and White America (University Press of Kansas), as well as reviews for Fraternity by Diane Brady (Spiegel & Grau), Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty by John Barry (Viking), and Lobbyists at Work by Beth Leech (Apress). [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 3:19 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
See https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/03/22/good-wife-plagiarismIPBiz notes that quoting from the Bible (without attribution) was done by Abraham Lincoln in the "House Divided" speech. [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 10:32 am by Larry
In that post, I was happy to note that Judge Katzmann used anecdotes about Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman to contextualize a case on the tariff classification of textile pet crates.In Amcor, Judge Reif used the literary tool of “bookending” to set up his decision. [read post]
15 Sep 2020, 11:59 am by Anna Salvatore
Until today’s signing of the Abrahamic Accords at the White House, both countries had officially considered Israel illegitimate; now the three Middle Eastern nations will be able to publicly coordinate on economic, social and political issues. [read post]