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1 Jul 2022, 10:30 pm by Kristin A. Olbertson
They enacted and renewed numerous statutes throughout the century outlawing acts such as profane cursing and swearing, defamation, lying, sedition, spreading false news (not yet a political catchphrase), threats, contempt, false swearing and perjury, and mumping (the eighteenth-century version of a confidence man). [read post]
19 Oct 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
New from Palgrave Macmillan: Cohabitation and Non-Marital Births in England and Wales, 1600-2012 (June 2014), edited by Rebecca Probert (University of Warwick). [read post]
18 Oct 2005, 5:38 pm by Legal Talk Network
Join us as we sort through the first major revision in U-S bankruptcy law in a quarter century! [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 1:14 pm by lennyesq
BY NICOLE BLACK *** The good news is that just as times have changed since fax machines became commonplace in the 1980s, so, too, has the technology behind the transmission of faxes. [read post]
27 Feb 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
New challenges in the nineteenth century encompassed the advance of nationalism, the rise of free trade and European imperialism, the formation of international organizations, and the arbitration of disputes. [read post]
20 Mar 2018, 4:29 am by Brian Leiter
The PGR has always given substantial attention to the Continental traditions in post-Kantian philosophy, reporting, much to the self-interested consternation of those affected, the generally low opinion philosophers hold of the SPEP departments that would like to maintain an exclusive... [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 9:49 am by Tom Smith
The following reflections take their origin from a curious enough coincidence. [read post]
26 Oct 2008, 10:49 pm
With national elections upon us and the recent announcement by the United States Treasury that the Federal deficit as of September 30, 2008 was $455B (the largest in US history) the following timeless words of the Great Depression era seem appropriate:"This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 1:10 pm by Joe Palazzolo
The Justice Department hasn't been shy about going after pirates -- about 30 alleged pirates are incarcerated in the U.S. -- but prosecutors are now adapting piracy laws from the 1700s to snag hostage negotiators, too, [read post]
30 Aug 2010, 6:38 am
Swanson and Thompson state that the brain appears to be a vastly interconnected network, much like the internet, which contradicts the 19th-Century "top-down" view of brain structure. [read post]
10 Mar 2018, 2:38 pm by Alfred Brophy
  Though that could be said for just about all early 20th century Confederate monuments, I suppose. [read post]
6 Jun 2022, 5:43 pm by Howard Bashman
New York Officials Fear Supreme Court Ruling Will Mean More Gun Crime; The Supreme Court is expected to rule on — and possibly overturn — a century-old law that allows local officials great discretion over who can carry a handgun”: Jonah E. [read post]
8 Jul 2014, 3:30 am by Neil H. Buchanan
Capital in the Twenty-First Century continues to top The New York Times Bestseller list for hardcover non-fiction, which hardly seemed likely for a book that is mostly built on an analysis of European and American tax records over the last century or two. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 5:00 am
If you opened up The New York Times on April 15, 1912, you would have read one of the most famous news alerts of the 20th century. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 6:30 am by Karen Tani
New from Oxford University Press: Buying the Vote: A History of Campaign Finance Reform, by Robert E. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 10:22 am by lpbncontracts
Lynch, Derivatives: A Twenty-First Century Understanding 43 Loy. [read post]