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15 Nov 2016, 8:33 am by Dennis Crouch
The Smithsonian provided him with three models: Samuel Morse’s telegraph (1849),  John Peer’s gear cutter (1874), and Henry Williams’ steamboat wheel (1877). [read post]
3 Nov 2016, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The Presidential race in 1824 initially had no clear victor: the votes were split among Jackson, Quincy, Henry Clay of Virginia, and William Crawford of Georgia. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 3:21 pm by Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD
A symposium that I edited is now available in Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics by Johns Hopkins University Press (Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 2016). [read post]
22 Sep 2016, 4:28 am
(William Frank), 1925-2008.Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004.Clarke, Arthur Charles, 1917-2008.Cronkite, Walter, 1916-2009.Cuomo, Mario Matthew, 1932-2015.Doctorow, E. [read post]
25 Jul 2016, 9:05 pm by Alfred Brophy
 I also discuss judges like John Archibald Campbell, who wrote several articles on the legal history of slavery, John Catron, who issued an anti-slavery decision when he was a judge in Tennessee (shocking, I know), and Ebenezer Starnes who wrote an epistolary novel about a slave-owner who brought a slave to England. [read post]
21 Jul 2016, 1:54 pm by Eugene Volokh
Yet it represents a highly influential idea about what equity means—equity is about the exceptional case, the unforeseen circumstance, the extension of a law to a case that is within its spirit but not quite within its letter.[2] This sense of equity can be seen in William Blackstone’s description of “equitable interpretation” of a statute: [I]f the parliament will positively enact a thing to be done which is unreasonable, I know of no power in the ordinary forms of… [read post]
14 Jun 2016, 3:03 pm by Giles Peaker
https://t.co/nxnUOVr0js — John de Waal QC (@johndewaalqc) June 14, 2016 And a little digging later, it gets worse. [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 10:01 am by J. Michael Goodson Law Library
The papers of Justice Warren Burger at the College of William & Mary are closed to researchers until 2026. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 7:46 am by A. Dirk Moses
Sands does not seem to realize that Egon Schwelb (1899-1979), who is mentioned in passing, was also a Jewish émigré lawyer, this time from Czechoslovakia, whose work behind the scenes at the United Nations as John Humphrey’s deputy in the Human Rights Commission was likely as decisive for institutionalizing crimes against humanity as anything Lauterpacht wrote. [read post]
18 May 2016, 6:10 am by Amy Howe
And at his eponymous blog, Dorf considers whether Spokeo, Zubik, and other recent cases reflect the application of a famous maxim of judicial restraint from the late Judge Henry Friendly, for whom Chief Justice John Roberts clerked. [read post]
16 May 2016, 4:29 am by Steve Lubet
”  Not only did William Henry Harrison win the presidency, but his party also took control of both houses of Congress. [read post]
6 May 2016, 10:01 am by Andrew Hamm
As Washington wrote to New York’s John Jay, who would become the nation’s first Chief Justice, “liberty itself is at issue. [read post]
9 Apr 2016, 6:26 am by Chris Castle
Federal Judge Henry Wingate in Mississippi–essentially an order that prevented Hood from even asking Google a single question about its business. [read post]
21 Mar 2016, 9:16 am by Francisco Macías
O’Sullivan. 1841 On March 4, William Henry Harrison was inaugurated president. [read post]
18 Mar 2016, 7:51 pm by David Friedman
In 1824, Andrew Jackson got forty-one percent of the popular vote, John Quincy Adams got thirty-one percent, with the rest of the votes going to Henry Clay and William Crawford, all four running as candidates of the Democratic-Republican Party. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 4:29 pm by Andrew Hamm
 He clerked for two of President Eisenhower’s judicial appointees — first for a legendary judge on the Second Circuit, Judge Henry Friendly, and then for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan. [read post]