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29 Sep 2011, 6:06 am
Revolutions can end in several ways: How the American Revolution ended: signing the Constitution How the French Revolution ended: Napoleon’s coronation as Emperor &nbs [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm
As consumers demand protections for the environment, corporations increasingly tout their sustainability efforts. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 10:50 am
Founded by the German Emperor Otto the Great in 962, who wanted to continue and revive the empire of Charlemagne, who in turn considered himself as the right successor of the Roman Empire (translatio imperii), it continued for more than eight centuries until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 11:05 pm
Some background information on canning The canning process dates back to the late 18th century in France when the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, concerned about keeping his armies fed, offered a cash prize to whoever could develop a reliable method of food preservation. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 12:54 pm
Redhibition is a Louisiana peculiarity (like the Napoleonic Code, elections that ignore political parties, and parasol twirling football fans shouting "who dat? [read post]
4 Aug 2024, 9:05 pm
In War and Peace, Tolstoy describes how the Russians slowly defeated Napoleon and the French by sapping their strength and attacking at all junctures, even though they lacked the strength to win a decisive battle. [read post]
10 Aug 2008, 7:59 am
At the same time, Pierre de Coubertin, a French aristocrat, concluded that the reason the French lost the Franco-Prussian war was because they had not received proper physical education (apparently, it had nothing to do with the post-Napoleonic warfare proficiency of the French). [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 1:01 am
Louisiana Purchase Louisiana has a unique legal system which is based on the French Napoleonic Code. [read post]
15 Dec 2023, 12:30 pm
City of Napoleon; IJ filed the only amicus brief urging this course of action. [read post]
22 Jul 2016, 2:53 am
The Festung, which was built by the district’s Prince-Archbishops to protect the city, was never taken in battle, although the locals did surrender the fortress without a fight to Napoleon in 1800 after the regnant Prince-Archbishop fled to Vienna. [read post]
29 May 2016, 1:14 pm
Napoleon Community Schools; I discuss that case in more detail in a post on my own blog.) [read post]
27 Jun 2016, 1:47 pm
Napoleon Community Schools 15-497Issue: Whether the Handicapped Children’s Protection Act of 1986 commands exhaustion in a suit, brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, that seeks damages – a remedy that is not available under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. [read post]
22 Feb 2007, 4:02 pm
Throughout the Napoleonic Wars, Wilberforce was also a persistent advocate of the doctrine of humane warfare and raised his powerful voice repeatedly for the humane treatment of all prisoners taken in time of war. [read post]
12 Sep 2017, 7:00 am
Both of these articles were in the very first Civil Code, adopted by Napoleon in 1804. [read post]
4 Aug 2015, 4:00 am
Let me give the example of my colleague Val Napoleon, who holds our Law Foundation Chair in Aboriginal Justice and Governance. [read post]
20 Apr 2010, 4:44 am
About 80 years ago one of the "fathers" of the "self help movement" named Napoleon Hill coined an expression that is very true - when you face adversity (and being illegally foreclosed on and then sued would qualify as "adversity") . . . here's what you should do - remind yourself that "within every adversity is the seed of an equal or greater benefit. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 6:10 am
Even shitlaw areas are somewhat complicated and involve at least 98,357 pages of tedious hypertechnical make-work paper churning and hours of sitting in shit-court at 10 pm waiting to argue with a nasty part-time troll "judge" who himself is a nasty, balding loser and lords his Napoleon complex over the pathetic night-court riff raff to inflate his own sorry ego. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 6:35 am
It’s also a challenge of consensus, because the Allies (as one might call them in Napoleonic terms) must also reach agreement with each other, and squabbling can be the norm. [read post]
16 Jun 2018, 1:59 am
Under Napoleon III’s Second Empire, hostile newspapers were shut down and the press was tightly controlled. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 1:49 pm
Riffing off Cole Porter’s song, Justice Scalia once mockingly referred to the “shocks the conscience test” as the “Napoleon Brandy, the Mahatma Gandhi,” of subjectivity. [read post]
