Archive: July 2013 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Nathan Dorn; (Year) 2013; (Month) July

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Prudence, Parrots and an Odd Emperor: An Example of Legal Engraving

July 29, 2013

This is a guest post by Hilary Ott, the Deanna Marcum Fellow for the summer of 2013. Hilary has spent the past five weeks working in the Law Library examining engravings in 17th and 18th century law books from northern Europe. Part of my project at the Law Library this summer has been to identify …

Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post, Law Library

Burlamaqui, Leibniz and The Pursuit of Happiness – Pic of the Week

July 5, 2013

Posted by: Nathan Dorn

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The political right to pursue happiness is one of the truly unique contributions of the Declaration of Independence. Today’s pic of …

Posted in: Collections, Pic of the Week

Refined by: (Author) Nathan Dorn; (Year) 2013; (Month) July