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1 Sep 2017, 4:00 am by Robert McKay
 Sykes when he wrote “Be nice to nerds. [read post]
15 Mar 2007, 12:40 pm
., Sarah Evans Barker, Judge) is a 12-page opinion by Judge Sykes that affirms the lower court:First, ample evidence supported the jury's finding that Luster participated in an extensive cocaine distribution operation headed by codefendant Prentice Davis. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 6:49 pm by Mark Weidemaier
  We’ll close by quoting this remarkably (and unfortunately) prescient paragraph from Alan Sykes, who wrote about this question in Economic Necessity and International Law: In individuals, risk aversion is a product of the diminishing marginal utility of money. [read post]
8 Apr 2017, 3:52 pm by David Bernstein
I find Judge Diane Sykes’s dissent very persuasive, but I thought it was worth addressing one point raised by the majority in some detail, its analogy between Hively and Loving v. [read post]
17 Sep 2023, 6:59 am by Daniel Shaviro
 On this past Tuesday, the NYU Tax Policy Colloquium had its first "public" session of the year, thus completing the kickoff to our Year 28. [read post]
17 May 2016, 1:07 pm by Caitlin Gilligan, Cody M. Poplin
Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secretive agreement between Britain and France that carved out “spheres of influence” and ultimately arranged the borders of the modern Middle East. [read post]
24 Jul 2016, 7:25 am by Gregory J Kruczek
Located near the Iraq-Syria border, scene of ISIL’s notorious “destruction of Sykes-Picot” propaganda video, an internationally brokered and manned safe haven would also de-legitimize the group’s self-styled caliphate to potential followers, territorially speaking. [read post]
23 May 2013, 1:44 pm by Roshonda Scipio
Sykes. .Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.KZ1252 .P67 2013International LawLegacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice / edited by Christian J. [read post]
12 Jan 2018, 11:00 am by Michael Neiberg
PDF Version A review of David Stevenson's 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution (Oxford, 2017). *** Speaking to the House of Commons in December 1917, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George made a prescient statement: “When the history of 1917 comes to be written ... these events in Mesopotamia and Palestine will hold a much more conspicuous place in the minds and in the memories of the people than many an event which looms much larger for the moment in our sight. [read post]
24 Jul 2016, 7:25 am by Gregory J Kruczek
Located near the Iraq-Syria border, scene of ISIL’s notorious “destruction of Sykes-Picot” propaganda video, an internationally brokered and manned safe haven would also de-legitimize the group’s self-styled caliphate to potential followers, territorially speaking. [read post]
17 Aug 2018, 12:30 pm by John K. Ross
The Seventh Circuit upholds sanctions against Cook County, Ill. corrections officer who threatened (via Facebook post) fellow officers not to testify against her in her discrimination suit against the county—and Judge Sykes reprints the threat word for emoji. [read post]
12 Jan 2018, 11:00 am by Michael Neiberg
PDF Version A review of David Stevenson's 1917: War, Peace, and Revolution (Oxford, 2017). *** Speaking to the House of Commons in December 1917, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George made a prescient statement: “When the history of 1917 comes to be written ... these events in Mesopotamia and Palestine will hold a much more conspicuous place in the minds and in the memories of the people than many an event which looms much larger for the moment in our sight. [read post]
11 Aug 2015, 11:25 am by Staley Smith, Quinta Jurecic
 Although it only lasted a year before the Sykes–Picot Agreement replaced it, by seeing how and why the first European plan for dividing up the Middle East failed we can better understand the region’s present-day borders, as well as the contradictions of contemporary Kurdish nationalism and the political challenges facing modern Turkey. [read post]
5 Aug 2016, 5:55 am by Mara Revkin
The group has generated a vast amount of propaganda proclaiming “the end” of the Sykes-Picot order, including one well-known video in which bulldozers literally demolish the border between Iraq and Syria. [read post]