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13 Sep 2019, 6:00 am
And thus if a legislature (for Bentham, and for the Napoleon of the Napoleonic Code) or the Supreme Court (for Coan) sets forth precise and easily understood conduct rules, the domain of dispute and thus of judicial dispute resolution is contracted.Third, and relatedly, Coan demonstrates that doctrines of judicial deference to decisions of other branches or institutions may also reduce the scope of judicial power and the degree of judicial involvement with questions of policy. [read post]
26 Apr 2010, 9:03 am
Had Jefferson not bought the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon, for example, Napoleon would likely have lost it anyway. [read post]
8 Apr 2024, 10:35 am
”[7] The commission would seize objects from “museums, churches, and private collections” and decide whether to keep, destroy, or sell them.[8] However, following Napoleon’s defeat at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the French were forced to return pieces of their looted collection to their respective countries.[9] The French conditioned the return of the pieces on the works being made accessible to the public.[10] Moreover, in the case of Marquis de Somerueles, the… [read post]
24 Apr 2011, 10:00 pm
Napoleons (shortguyus complexus) Clients who suffer from this malady are very bossy. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 12:44 am
Talleyrand himself had served the emperor as foreign minister and trusted ally before switching to the other side as Napoleon’s power waned — and his megalomania grew. [read post]
6 Sep 2008, 6:43 pm
” Kid Impersonates Napoleon Dynamite During Spelling Bee Dominic Ranz Ebarle Errazo may not have won the 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee, but after his completely out-of-context Napoleon Dynamite reference hit YouTube, the kid became an overnight sensation. [read post]
22 Dec 2017, 2:43 am
The Napoleon Community school district in Michigan said that it had already provided a one-on-one support person to help the child at school, and the dog wasn’t needed. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 11:39 am
The “Chess Machine” that fooled Napoleon The Turk was a famous hoax which purported to be a chess-playing automaton first constructed and unveiled in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen. [read post]
12 Sep 2016, 9:30 pm
This much became clear during the Jeffersonian era, as waterfront communities thwarted the embargoes and commercial restrictions that aimed to punish European commerce during the Haitian Revolution and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. [read post]
28 Jun 2024, 8:53 am
AR being used by workers in assembly lines to receive additional information (as first popularised by Boeing), and Deepfakes (DFs) facilitating online cross-border conversations by translating in real time into each person's language; Education: e.g DFs being used to deliver interactive lessons to students (Napoleon speaking about the French revolution), or VR bringing schoolchildren back to ancient sites; Entertainment: e.g. [read post]
31 Jul 2024, 6:30 am
The “interbellum” designation is important, but I would suggest that the first “bellum” is not the War of 1812, but the Napoleonic Wars, which stretched from 1799-1815. [read post]
25 Jul 2017, 4:57 pm
’ – Napoleon Bonaparte‘It’s just a job. [read post]
21 Jan 2015, 4:30 am
It is only a series of tiny conceptual steps to go from the French Revolution to nationalism, to total war, to the Napoleonic Code, to the metric system, and then to a weird overestimation of the films of Jerry Lewis. [read post]
18 Mar 2017, 9:22 am
Following the defeat of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870, the French Second Empire swiftly collapsed. [read post]
14 Dec 2020, 11:30 am
GettyImages: duncan1890In his new book, Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era Through the First Gilded Age, Shaviro mines literature on social status and wealth from past eras for parallels to current relationships between capitalism and inequality. [read post]
4 Jan 2016, 3:30 am
Conrad’s characters, like the real ones, relentlessly persist in their personal feud through the rise, fall, reemergence, and ultimate exile of Napoleon, as the world transforms around them. [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 10:00 pm
How about the Napoleonic Complex? [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 6:14 am
In the days of Napoleon, of which I was speaking just now, the same wind which would have carried his transports across the Channel might have driven away the blockading fleet. [read post]
28 Oct 2021, 7:00 am
I especially liked Professor Colley’s emphasis on autocratic constitutions written by professional soldiers such as Napoleon, since constitutional law scholars focus almost entirely on democracies. [read post]
16 Oct 2020, 12:01 pm
Yesterday was the long-postponed, and I hope not annoyingly over-advertised, Zoom session regarding Literature and Inequality: Nine Perspectives from the Napoleonic Era Through the First Gilded Age. [read post]
