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29 Jun 2017, 9:21 am by Eugene Volokh
” In that case (which I’ve heard is finally moving forward after a spell in procedural limbo), French privacy authorities want Google to de-list results throughout the world on the basis of French laws — laws that would be unconstitutional in some other countries. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 3:08 pm by Eugene Volokh
Much as American law respects the right to trial by jury, does it really make sense to refuse to enforce Canadian judgments (or English or French or German judgments), just because we have a somewhat different system of civil procedure? [read post]
9 Jan 2017, 6:57 am by David Post
. *** As a totally irrelevant sidenote, the 2 Live Crew case is responsible for my presence on this blog, because Eugene Volokh and I first met when we were working on this case at our respective clerkships (he for Justice O’Connor, me for Justice Ginsburg), and the rest, as they say, is history. [read post]
2 Jan 2017, 7:29 am by Nelson Lund
Rousseau was the first great philosophic critic of what we call the Enlightenment, without being a defender of the ancien régime. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 8:09 am by Eugene Volokh
Likewise, 1790s Americans wore colored cockades in their hats to represent their Republican (red, white, and blue, referring to Republican sympathy for the French Revolution) or Federalist (black) allegiances. [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 11:02 am by Eugene Kontorovich
In any case, contrary to the HRW’s claims, there is simply no support in international law for prohibiting business in occupied territories, as British and French courts have recently affirmed. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 9:49 am by Eugene Volokh
One state — Louisiana — has a French-law-derived tradition of “forced heirship,” under which some adult children have a right to inherit part of their parents’ property without regard to their parents’ wishes; but that is very much an exception, and even that is a substantive entitlement, not an antidiscrimination rule. [read post]
10 Aug 2016, 12:14 pm by Eugene Volokh
Blame my urban upbringing: To “curry,” it turns out, means “To groom (a horse) with a currycomb,” originally stemming from “Vulgar Latin *conrēdāre : Latin com-, com- + Vulgar Latin *-rēdāre, to make ready. [read post]
10 Mar 2016, 6:30 am by Eugene Kontorovich
Thus the borders of Lebanon are the borders of the French Mandate over Lebanon, whether that state is largely Christian, as originally intended, or Shiite or Sunni. [read post]
6 Mar 2016, 4:44 pm by INFORRM
In France, the French data protection authority has publicly issued a formal notice for Facebook to comply with the French Data Protection Act within three months. [read post]
8 Jan 2016, 11:58 am by Eugene Volokh
Even “France,” for instance, is pronounced with an “a” as in “mad” and not with the French “ah” as in “ma. [read post]
20 Nov 2015, 8:09 am by David Kopel
Many feared that his objective was replacing England’s system of limited monarchy with French-style absolute monarchy, and to eventually to re-establish Catholicism as the official religion. [read post]
14 Nov 2015, 10:31 am by Eugene Volokh
The sails of the Sydney Opera House lit in the colors of the French flag. [read post]
8 Oct 2015, 5:02 am by Eugene Volokh
The art of the celebrated French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who’s been dead since 1919. [read post]
7 Sep 2015, 3:49 am
The lesson the French resolution would teach the international community is that if one does not like compromises embodied in Security Council resolutions, simply ignore them and wait for the political winds to shift and bring a different resolution. [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 1:40 pm
The book is about the last judicial trial by combat authorized by the French central government, in 1386; it seems quite thoroughly researched, but it’s also a page-turner. [read post]
4 Aug 2015, 10:07 am
To give examples from U.S. states (which aren’t included in the question, since I’m talking here about countries), Colorado stems from the Spanish word for “red,” and Vermont stems in part from the French word for “green”; likewise, Greenland would of course qualify, if it were independent. [read post]