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13 May 2019, 6:00 am
When Lincoln spoke those words: 1) the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe had all failed; 2) the Emperor Napoleon III governed France; 3) the Emperor of Japan governed that island country; and 4) in the U.K., only one-seventh of all men could vote for the House of Commons whose actions were subject to veto by the oligarchic House of Lords until 1911. [read post]
19 Sep 2020, 6:30 am
It was, for instance, a simple application of the last stage of this model that led Edmund Burke to his famous prophecy of Napoleon’s rise from the ashes of the French revolution. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 7:30 am
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021).Daniel Carpenter[1] Is there anything like the petition of lore left in our republic? [read post]
9 Jan 2025, 7:00 pm
Pix Credit Pablo Picasso Artist and his Model (1963)Martijn Scheltema, a co-chair of the European Working Group (EWG) or Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains, which has produced for consultation a Zero Draft of a (the) Zero Draft for Consultation: The European Model Clauses (EMCs) for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains (July 2024); and a Commentary to the Zero Draft for Consultation European Model Clauses (EMCs) for Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains (July 2024), along with… [read post]
26 Aug 2013, 7:12 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2013) I have been posting about the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law." [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 8:38 am
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17 Jul 2017, 2:43 pm
I wrote the following after a trip to Israel, Germany, and the Balkans 7/24/04-8/08/04. [read post]
1 May 2020, 2:11 am
The main body of statutes and laws governing civil law are set out in the Napoleonic Code (Code civil des Français) (the “Civil Code“), established under Napoleon I in 1804 and the Code de Commerce, the French commercial code. [read post]
4 May 2021, 6:13 am
The main body of statutes and laws governing civil law are set out in the Napoleonic Code (Code civil des Français) (the “Civil Code“), established under Napoleon I in 1804 and the Code de Commerce, the French commercial code. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 1:05 am
Codification has a long and honourable tradition going back to the ancient Babylon of Hammurabi; but neither Justinian in 6th century Byzantium nor Napoleon in 19th century France used codification to reform the law. [read post]
20 Jun 2019, 4:00 am
That is true even if I was trained as a civilist in a province where the Civil Code is said to have the Napoleonic Code as one of its ancestors. [read post]
2 Jun 2012, 8:49 am
The fact that George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower and Colin Powell are a West Pointer’s models, rather than Caesar or Napoleon, is reflective of a bridge toward greater equality that leaders associated with Knox were prominent in building. [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 6:50 pm
Written by 2spare.com Events «We will bury you. [read post]
10 Feb 2025, 3:32 am
The D&O Diary was on assignment in Europe last week, with several stops in the storied kingdom of Belgium. [read post]
31 Dec 2006, 9:06 pm
We talk seriously about Search Engine Privacy Strategies, and share a few laughs about search engine queries that send Inadvertent Searchees to his weblog.Bob Ambrogi takes note of a special blog post in which Sherry Fowler writes about her yellow underpants and what she's learned from writing her blog.Prettier Than Napoleon in Washington, D.C., Amber Taylor responds to her heckler by explaining how he also could get into Harvard.David Lat at Above the Law reports on the case of… [read post]
29 Sep 2019, 8:29 pm
Despite the important role that the media plays in a democracy, Canada has long lagged behind other jurisdictions when it came to source protection. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 9:01 pm
Exactly one year later, he declared himself Emperor Napoleon III. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 7:12 pm
Written by quigles Nothing makes a great movie suck like people quoting it day in and day out for months at a time. [read post]
19 Aug 2017, 4:01 pm
As Sir Denis Forman points out, the censors may have been agitated by the attempted assassination of Napoleon III in 1858, particularly because he was on his way to an opera at the time.4 Verdi eventually transformed the lead character from the King of Sweden to the colonial "Governor of Boston. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 7:00 am
In 2021, he presented a webinar on the Napoleonic Code’s history and legacy, during which he discussed the Code’s impact on other countries around the world, including many in Latin America. [read post]
