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3 Dec 2019, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Lash’s constitutional origin story also asks us to ignore the views of George Washington, James Wilson, Gouverneur Morris, and indeed the dominant majority of the 1787 Convention; the ratification debates over federal power, the Federalist party, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and the national Republicans -- in short, one entire side of the debate over national powers that began with the founding and has been, in Marshall’s words, “perpetually arising. [read post]
28 Oct 2019, 6:11 am by Bob Ambrogi
But it can also mean, according to Merriam-Webster, a great devotion to an idea or movement, such as the cult of physical fitness. [read post]
23 Aug 2019, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Matthew Waxman, Columbia Law School, continues his Lawfare posts on the history of war powers with Daniel Webster, War Powers and Bird$h*t.Our friends at the Federal Judicial Center note that Supreme Court of the United States has posted a complete set of its Rules from 1803 onward. [read post]
21 Aug 2019, 5:00 am by Matthew Waxman
Daniel Webster and War Powers Daniel Webster was one of the 19th century’s greatest lawyers, legislators, orators and diplomats, including serving in the House and the Senate and twice as secretary of state. [read post]
14 Aug 2019, 9:54 am by Tim Zinnecker
From an email message that I received today: UNH Law is seeking a full-time, year-round Director for its Daniel Webster Scholar Honors Program (DWS) to begin in July of 2020. [read post]
28 Jun 2019, 8:17 am
Daniel Berman (CEO Maccabi Enterprise Development & Chairman, eHealthVentures, Israel) turned the audience’s attention to how ‘AI and Big Data’ is disrupting the medical sector in Israel. [read post]
11 Apr 2019, 11:25 am by Steve Lubet
Abraham Lincoln read law, as did Daniel Webster, Stephen Douglas, Henry Clay, Salmon P. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
  She checked in somewhere down the list from Daniel Webster and Salmon P. [read post]
15 Nov 2018, 11:29 am by Matthew Waxman
” This is a phrase that then-Senator Daniel Webster used to characterize the Mexican-American War in 1846 and one that Beschloss adopts to describe prevailing constitutional practice. [read post]
21 Oct 2018, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Calhoun; the great compromiser, Kentucky’s Henry Clay; former president Martin Van Buren; and Daniel Webster of Massachusetts. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 1:20 pm by Sandy Levinson
 Daniel Webster, in his Seventh of March Speech justifying his support of the Compromise of 1850, at least could plausibly claim to be trying to save the Union. [read post]
27 Sep 2018, 7:18 am
WILIAM EDGAR SIMONDS 1891-1893Descended through his father from Daniel Webster, and through his mother from Roger de Coigneries, who came to England with William the Conqueror, it might well be expected that William Edgar Simonds would make his mark in the world. [read post]
18 Sep 2018, 9:40 am by Laurel Davis
Some highlights include: heavily annotated copies of important legal texts like Edward Coke's Reports and Richard Burn's Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer; a trial pamphlet for an 1859 Boston trial regarding the alleged assault and battery by a teacher upon a Roman Catholic pupil for his refusal to recite the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments; a statement of account from Daniel Webster's legal practice before he entered the world of politics; a writ… [read post]
28 Aug 2018, 11:26 am by Matthew Waxman
Secretary of State Daniel Webster and a new British envoy to the United States, Lord Ashburton (Alexander Baring), produced agreement on the law, and agreement to disagree on the facts. [read post]
23 Jul 2018, 5:51 am by Marty Lederman
  Alito cites only two:  Noah Webster and Oliver Ellsworth (both of whom were invoked in the amicus brief of certain California teachers). [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 4:00 am by Administrator
” There is an old adage that most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor”, he says referencing the quote from American Lawyer and statesman, Daniel Webster. [read post]
21 May 2018, 3:18 am by NCC Staff
Led by Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and former President John Quincy Adams, the party endorsed tariffs and a national bank, and it clearly detested President Jackson. [read post]
10 May 2018, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
We show how the radical lawyers confronted and defeated the conservative legal elite, including the likes of Joseph Story, Daniel Webster and Benjamin Robbins Curtis, using legal arguments and a comprehensive litigation strategy. [read post]
7 May 2018, 3:11 pm by Eugene Volokh
See Webster's Third New International Dictionary 2280 (1981) (defining "substantive" as "having the character of an independent self-subsistent ... thing: ... not derivative or dependent"). [read post]