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14 Jun 2011, 2:02 pm by Eugene Volokh
” Likewise, they have no obligation to call England “England,” as opposed to “Angleterre” (which is what the French call it), “Anglia” (what the Russians call it), or whatever Burmese might have historically called it. [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 6:57 am by Eugene Volokh
Because objective, English-language descriptions of French law are readily available, we prefer them to the parties’ declarations. [read post]
17 Feb 2015, 11:29 am
The New York Times (Neha Thirani Bagri) reports: [A]n Urdu newspaper [Avadhnama] has closed and its editor [Shirin Dalvi] faces charges and death threats for having reprinted a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad from the satirical French weekly…. [read post]
18 Mar 2014, 8:02 am
On the night of November 23, 1407, shortly after Louis of Orleans, brother of the French king, was hacked to death in the street by a gang of assassins, a messenger arrived at the home of Guillaume de Tignonville, Provost of Paris, in the Rue Béthisy, nearly a mile to the west of where Louis had been struck down. [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 5:24 pm by Eugene Volokh
Jeofail apparently comes from the Anglo-French "jeo fail," which is to say "I am at fault," or "my bad. [read post]
7 Jan 2015, 10:53 am
A person reads the latest issue of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Jan. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 11:23 pm by David Kopel
(David Kopel) Regarding Eugene Volokh’s post below about an NYU L. [read post]
8 Jan 2016, 11:58 am by Eugene Volokh
Even “France,” for instance, is pronounced with an “a” as in “mad” and not with the French “ah” as in “ma. [read post]
26 Nov 2022, 12:16 pm by Eugene Volokh
"Russia" is likewise correctly pronounced in English as "Rusha," though in Russian it's "Rosiya" (I use italics to indicate emphasis) and in French it's spelled "Russie" and pronounced "Roosee" (to use English transliteration), though with the different French R and "oo. [read post]
8 Oct 2009, 6:56 am
  Here’s the list from Ladbrokes (HT: Mankiw): Eugene Fama 2/1 Paul Romer 4/1 Ernst Fehr 6/1 Kenneth R. [read post]
6 Oct 2020, 2:58 pm by Eugene Volokh
Netflix has apparently been indicted in Texas (see below) under the Texas child exploitation statute, based on the alleged "depict[ion of] the lewd exhibition of the genitals or pubic area of a clothed or partially clothed child who was younger than 18 years of age" in the controversial French-language film Cuties. [read post]
20 Sep 2019, 8:50 am by Eugene Volokh
"—the distress call originated as a phonetic spelling of the French m'aidez or m'aider, which means "help me. [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 7:15 am by Eugene Volokh
If the question is whether a marriage contracted in France between two French citizens is valid, you look to whether the law of France was properly complied with in entering into the marriage. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 1:57 pm by Eugene Volokh
Churchill understood it, and the French strategists who saw the value in a superstructure tying Germany to themselves understood it. [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 5:31 am
A California court might well say, “Look, all the documents are in French, some of the key witnesses are in France, the underlying real estate is in France — go to France and sue there. [read post]
2 Jan 2017, 7:29 am by Nelson Lund
Rousseau was the first great philosophic critic of what we call the Enlightenment, without being a defender of the ancien régime. [read post]