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unusual facts about American law



Droit

American law does not recognize any such droits, and the disposition of captured property is regulated by various acts of Congress.


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2005 Denver police officer shooting

As a result of this potential outcome, Colorado Representative Bob Beauprez introduced legislation before the United States House to cut foreign aid to countries that refused to extradite people suspected of murdering American law enforcement agents.

Barry R. Schaller

His first book, A Vision of American Law: Judging Law, Literature, and the Stories We Tell, which addresses law, literature, and American cultural issues, was widely reviewed and received the Quinnipiac Law School award for excellence.

Bator

Paul M. Bator (1929–1989), American law professor and Deputy Solicitor General of the United States

Commentaries on American Law

Commentaries on American Law is a four-volume book by James Kent.

Daniel Carpenter

Daniel C. Carpenter (1816-1866), American law enforcement officer and police inspector of the New York Police Department

Grant Gilmore

Grant Gilmore (1910 – 1982) was an American law professor who taught at Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School, the College of Law (n/k/a Moritz College of Law) at The Ohio State University, and Vermont Law School.

Imprisonment of Roger Shuler

The imprisonment of Roger Shuler is an event in United States jurisprudence which attracted some notice both nationally and internationally for its application of prior restraint, unusual under American law.

Joe Esposito

Joseph Esposito (born 1950), American law enforcement official who joined New York City Police Department (NYPD) at age 18 and rose through ranks to reach, in August 2000, highest uniformed position, Chief of Department

John Banister

John Riley Banister (1854–1918), American law officer and Texas Ranger

John Bouvier

Bouvier also published an edition of Matthew Bacon's Abridgment of the Law (10 vols, 1842-1846), and a compendium of American law entitled The Institutes of American Law (4 vols, 1851; new ed. 2 vols, 1876).

Judiciary Act of 1789

A clause granting the Supreme Court the power to issue writs of mandamus outside its original jurisdiction was declared unconstitutional by Marbury v. Madison (1803) (5 U.S. 137), one of the seminal cases in American law.

Langum Prizes

2002 (Legal History): Lawrence M. Friedman, American Law in the 20th Century (Yale University Press)

London Company

Robert Williams, a contemporary Native American Law Professor, argues that Opchanacanough had secured concessions from Governor Yeardley which the company would not accept.

Malice aforethought

In most common law jurisdictions, the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code, and in the various US state statutes which have codified homicide definitions, the term has been abandoned although the meaning remains the mens rea requirement for murder.

Paul Evans

Paul F. Evans, American law enforcement officer who served as Commissioner of the Boston Police Department from 1994 to 2003

Penne alla vodka

Paula Franzese, an American law professor at Seton Hall University School of Law, has asserted that her father Luigi Franzese, born in Naples, Italy in 1931, devised the first version of penne alla vodka, which he called penne alla Russa because of the addition of the vodka to his tomato and cream sauce base.

Presidential Rule of Law Initiative

One project of this initiative was the American Law Library program, which was to translate hundreds of books of American law into Chinese.

Provincial Councils of Baltimore

At one of the sessions of this council several lawyers (among them Roger B. Taney, afterwards Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States) gave advice to the bishops on points of American law concerning property rights and ecclesiastical courts.

Queen's Counsel

These were Arthur Marriott (53), partner of the London office of the American law firm of Wilmer Cutler and Pickering based in Washington, DC, and Dr Lawrence Collins (55), a partner of the City law firm of Herbert Smith.

Restatements of the Law

In the period between 1923 and 1944, the American Law Institute published Restatements of Agency, Conflict of Laws, Contracts, Judgments, Property, Restitution, Security, Torts, and Trusts.

Richard B. Morris

His dissertation, published by Columbia University Press as Studies in the History of American Law, with Special Reference to the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1930), still defines the research agenda for historians working on early American law, thought at the time it attracted the bitter denunciations of such law-school practitioners of legal history as Julius Goebel, Jr., and Karl Llewellyn, both on the faculty of Columbia Law School.

Robert Chamberlain

Robert H. Chamberlain (1838–1910), American law enforcement officer, sheriff of Worcester County, Massachusetts

Robert Haas

Robert C. Haas, American law enforcement official in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Robert Lawson

Robert G. Lawson (born 1938), American law professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law

Rutgers Law School

Rutgers School of Law–Newark, an American law school founded in 1908 as "New Jersey Law School", which merged with the University of Newark in 1936, and which later became part of Rutgers University

Rutgers School of Law–Camden, an American law school originally established in 1926 as "South Jersey Law School", which merged with Rutgers University in 1950

Snapchat

The company revealed in a blog post on October 14, 2013 that it complies with the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) by handing over images not yet seen by its users to American law enforcement agencies.

Steven Barnett

Stephen Barnett (1935–2009), American law professor and legal scholar

University of Missouri–Kansas City

It is one of only seven American law schools to have educated both a President of the United States (Harry S. Truman) and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (Charles Evans Whittaker).

William H. Brown, III

He joined with a group of several other African American lawyers formed what is considered by many to be Philadelphia's first African-American law firm, Norris Schmidt Green Harris Higginbotham & Brown.

William Packard

William Guthrie Packard (1889 – 1987), American law book publisher, owner of Shepard's Citations