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22 Jun 2020, 4:45 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
(And, yes, the Confederacy started the war—announcing secession before Abraham Lincoln had been inaugurated, and firing the first shots Fort Sumter.) [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 6:31 am by JB
These religions, like most religions, change over time, so too does the content of what they require of the faithful in terms of belief and practice.Nevertheless, it makes sense to say that Abraham, Joshua, David, Ezra, Rabbi Akiva, Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, and a Jew living in 2020 are all Jews and that all could equally a [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 6:00 am
In his 1943 paper “A Theory of Human Motivation”, Abraham Maslow put forward his seminal theory on the “Hierarchy of Needs. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 3:06 pm by Public Employment Law Press
Cuomo signed an executive order on Wednesday, June 18, 2020,  declaring Juneteenth — a day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — a holiday for employees of the State as the employer.The holiday, also known as Freedom Day, falls annually on June 19, the same day in 1865 that a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, and informed enslaved African Americans that the Civil War had ended and they had been freed – more than two years after President… [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 3:06 pm by Public Employment Law Press
Cuomo signed an executive order on Wednesday, June 18, 2020,  declaring Juneteenth — a day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — a holiday for employees of the State as the employer.The holiday, also known as Freedom Day, falls annually on June 19, the same day in 1865 that a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, and informed enslaved African Americans that the Civil War had ended and they had been freed – more than two years after President… [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 2:20 pm
We have not seen his likes since an assassin's bullet cut Abraham Lincoln's life short, but the conclusion to his first inaugural address contains words of poetry, healing, reconciliation, and genius. [read post]
18 Jun 2020, 1:03 pm by NCC Staff
In reality, President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, was a direct order from the chief executive to free enslaved people in all states taking part in the rebellion against the federal government, including Texas. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 12:14 pm by Tom Smith
A statue of Abraham Lincoln that has stood in Boston since 1879 is reportedly in the crosshairs of the city's mayor, yet another monument in danger of coming down as an anti-statue zeitgeist sweeps the country. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 10:30 am by Robbie Kenney
“Recently a statue of Abraham Lincoln was defaced in Massachusetts. [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 8:44 am
President Abraham Lincoln who signed the Code into a general order, is also known for being the first U.S. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 2:00 am by mes286
Choi, Professor of Law, Michigan Law, and Abraham Lee Wickelgren, The Bernard J. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 3:22 am by tortsprof
At JOTWELL, Ken Abraham reviews Tom Baker's Uncertainty > Risk: Lessons for Legal Thought from the Insurance Runoff Market. [read post]
2 Jun 2020, 3:30 am by Kenneth S. Abraham
Abraham The received wisdom is that insurance can function well in a world of “risk” – the determinable probability of loss —  but that insurance can function only poorly, or not at all, in the face of “uncertainty” – the indeterminate probability of loss. [read post]
31 May 2020, 9:02 pm by Bruno Queiroz Cunha
The Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, has in turn insisted that the country move ahead with this year’s national high school exam, by far the most important entry scheme for the main universities in the country, even with the pandemic underway. [read post]
29 May 2020, 11:26 am by Margaret Wood
Statute of Abraham Lincoln by Daniel Chester French, Lincoln Memorial / Photograph by J. [read post]
25 May 2020, 7:16 am by Juan C. Antúnez
This year, shed of celebration, the shadow of COVID-19 gives us the opportunity to remember (as President Abraham Lincoln did in the Gettysburg Address) ‘those who here gave their lives that (our) nation might live.'” Semper Fi [read post]
24 May 2020, 6:09 pm by John Gotaskie
Logan, Commander in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, when we pause to remember, and honor, those who gave, as Abraham Lincoln so eloquently expressed it, the last full measure of devotion for their country. [read post]