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Going Home: 7 Lessons on life in France for an American Scholar

As my time in France as a Fulbright scholar ends, I have given some thought to what a wonderful experience it has been; what I have learned, what my children have experienced, what observations I have gathered from my time abroad. I was in France during a particularly...

1870, 1914, 1940 . . .

A couple of weeks ago I visited the eastern part of France — Lorraine — with my family. We were invited to stay with friends, in a home built during the war of 1870, and occupied in the other two wars with Germany in 1914 and 1940. We visited the American...

War in Libya

I was living in Paris in 1990 practicing law when the first Gulf War broke out. President George H.W. Bush led a coalition, pursuant to U.N. Security Council Resolution 678, to repel Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. Resolution 678 was adopted by a vote of 12-2...

Jessup 2011

  I had the privilege to author the Compromis for this year’s Jessup problem, which you can find on the website of the International Law Students Association, here. The scenario resembles real life, involving the use of drone attacks against an ethnic...

Paris in America — Edouard Laboulaye

Last week I went to a very interesting program at the Collège de France on this little book by Edouard Laboulaye, celebrating the bicentennial of this lesser known luminary of France. The book Paris en Amérique itself appeared in 1863 and was...