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20 May 2016, 4:39 am
The report also notes that China’s four South China Sea airfields ultimately “could have runways long enough to support any aircraft in China’s inventory” and Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia Abraham Denmark claimed that, “China’s leadership [has] demonstrated a willingness to tolerate higher levels of tension in pursuit of its maritime sovereignty claims. [read post]
18 May 2016, 6:30 am
The trial pitted Hamersley as prosecutor against Leonard Swett-a world-renowned attorney and one of Abraham Lincoln's closest friends.This article traces the history of that trial and the surrounding events from its origins in 1877 to its conclusion in January 1879. [read post]
16 May 2016, 2:00 pm
My colleague, former judge and prominent mediator/ arbitrator Abraham Gafni gives his students well-known advice: to complete a negotiation successfully, you must provide satisfaction on three fronts. [read post]
16 May 2016, 4:29 am
To their chagrin and consternation, the Whig leaders suddenly discovered that the new president did not support the party platform which, as Abraham Lincoln said early in his career, was “short and sweet,” meaning support for a national bank, internal improvements, and a high protective tariff. [read post]
15 May 2016, 3:00 am
This week's book roundup includes an eclectic mix of reviews:In The New York Times, Steve Hahn asks whether we need "Another book about Abraham Lincoln? [read post]
11 May 2016, 8:08 am
The Honorable Salvatore Phillip “Sonny” Bono, Michael Jackson, Howard Hughes, Abraham Lincoln, Pablo Picasso, Martin Luther King are all grouped together with such musical greats as Jimmy Hendrix, Curt Kobain and Amy Winehouse. [read post]
5 May 2016, 2:08 am
.* * *A stellar cast of speakers was involved, including Michael Hicks and Mark Vanhegan QC (acting as counsel for and against Trunki respectively), Nathan Abraham, Head of UK Examination Practice for Trade Marks and Designs at the UKIPO, Martin Howe QC, Guy Tritton and His Honour Judge Hacon.Trunki – a panel discussion on the practical implicationsAbsence of ornamentation was the first point of call, with Mark Vanhegan QC welcoming the result that lack of ornamentation… [read post]
3 May 2016, 4:00 am
In Asia his influence ranks with Abraham, Jesus and Buddha. [read post]
30 Apr 2016, 2:16 pm
Tomorrow's NYT acrostic has one clue that reads: "How Abraham Lincoln and Jimi Hendrix died. [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 3:28 pm
"Abraham Lincoln"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? [read post]
27 Apr 2016, 2:49 pm
Here are 17 famous people who died without a will: Abraham Lincoln: one of the most famous lawyers of our time and the sixteenth president of the United States. [read post]
21 Apr 2016, 9:08 am
According to Abraham Lincoln’s biographer Carl Sandburg, as early as the First Battle of Bull Run, reports trickled in from the front lines of soldiers armed with “muskets not worth shooting” sold to the government by “swindling contractors. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 2:07 pm
Harriet Tubman, an African-American abolitionist who was born a slave, will stand with George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin as among the iconic faces of U.S. currency. [read post]
17 Apr 2016, 8:27 am
I recently had the privilege of speaking about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) at the Fordham 24th Annual Intellectual Property Law and Policy Conference, a stellar international IP conference. [read post]
16 Apr 2016, 7:36 pm
One hundred fifty yeas ago — and many months before Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation — President Lincoln ordered slaves in Washington, D.C., freed. [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 2:25 pm
On April 16, 1862 (154 years ago tomorrow) President Abraham Lincoln signed a law that Congressman Abraham Lincoln had proposed 13 years earlier. [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 1:06 pm
They were with Judge Ronny Abraham on “La Cour internationale de Justice à l'aube de son soixante-dixième anniversaire” and Philippe Couvreur on “Le déroulement du procès devant la Cour internationale de Justice. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 10:00 am
” It was a monumental, history-altering decision; everyone (up to and including Abraham Lincoln) understood what it meant and was intended to mean: that the (slave-owner’s) right to acquire and possess property — and slaves, of course, were property — was not of equal rank when compared with the slave’s right to life and to liberty. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 1:01 am
Abraham Lincoln in October, 1959 [read post]
7 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm
(I should also note here that the practice of ticket “balancing,” wherein each presidential candidate picks a running mate to placate a different wing of the party, already creates some potential for policy inconsistency over a four-year term, as happened during Andrew Johnson’s succession in the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s death, and also some “reason” for a crazy person to assassinate a president, as in the case of James Garfield’s assassin, who… [read post]
