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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Has Harvard actually found the Magna Carta?
Imagine you bring along to the Antiques Roadshow a scuffed piece of parchment covered in writing in Latin so faded that you find it impossible to decipher the letters. You confess that your grandparents paid £20 for it at an auction way back in 1946. It is then revealed, at that awkward moment when members of the public are told that their prized chipped mug from the coronation of George VI is only worth £5, that your parchment is actually a copy of Magna Carta worth £16,000,000. Scuffed items sometimes do well on that programme. Rolex watches are a case in point, reaching into the tens of thousands. They have in a sense become a reserve currency for the very rich, without being particularly elegant in appearance and despite (even because of) all the knocks and bruises they have received. Then there was a poverty-stricken man living in a shack in California who was inspired by the American equivalent of Antiques Roadshow to take a filthy Navajo blanket his mother thought might fetch ten dollars to an auction house, which sold it for $1,500,000. A Chinese bowl from around AD 1000, bought at an American garage sale for $3, fetched $2,200,000 in the sale rooms. The only one like it is in the British Museum. This time, though, the proud owner of a text of Magna Carta is the Law School at Harvard University, by far the richest university in the world, even after President Trump has taken away a great slice of its research funding. Even so, Harvard probably will not need to sell it. And in any case – this is where things turn awkward – it isn't actually an original from 1215, but a copy made after its re-issue in 1300, apparently in 1327. It was most probably sent all the way to a remote corner of Westmorland, its former county town of Appleby, which for centuries had the right to send two members to the House of Commons. Indeed, one of the features that led two eminent scholars, David Carpenter at King's College London and Nicholas Vincent at the University of East Anglia, to identify it was that it begins with a large E, which stands not for King John, obviously enough, but for King Edward I who had re-issued the charter amid political ructions less acute than those that tore England apart nearly a century earlier under King document survived among the papers of the great abolitionist Thomas Clarkson, whose campaigns against the slave trade have lately achieved the ultimate accolade of being sneered at in a tendentious exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge about the abolition of the slave trade with the rousing title Rise Up! Resistance, Revolution, Abolition. Clarkson would have seen Magna Carta as support for his entirely admirable convictions. However, most of the liberties of which Magna Carta speaks are not quite what we think of as liberties, and only four clauses remain on the Statute Book to this day, but they are fundamental to our principles of government. The most memorable is 'to no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice.' Even in our own day we may wonder whether these clauses have only been honoured in the breach. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Bloomberg
14-05-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Bloomberg Law:Threats to Habeas Corpus & 'Diddy' Trial
Constitutional law expert Jonathan Adler, a professor at Case Western Reserve University Law School, discusses the Trump administration talking about suspending the writ of habeas corpus. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs. June Grasso hosts.
Business Mayor
22-04-2025
- Business
- Business Mayor
Thompson launches The Common Wealth podcast for Community Enterprise Clinic to explore urban issues – U-M Detroit
By: Bob Needham Source: Law School Dana Thompson A new podcast from the Community Enterprise Clinic ( CEC ) highlights work being done by the clinic's clients as well as issues they and others face in community building. Called The Common Wealth , the podcast is produced and hosted by Professor Dana Thompson, '99, the director of the CEC and an expert on community economic development and urban revitalization issues. The clinic, which represents community organizations and small businesses in Detroit and other disinvested urban areas, is producing the podcast in partnership with the University of Michigan Detroit Center. 'Not a lot of people are talking about community development, the tools that are being used to improve communities, and whether those tools are working or not—and they're incredibly important issues,' said Thompson, who is also director of the Transactional Law Clinics Program and founding director of the Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic. 'Since we are doing the work and we have these relationships, I thought this would be a great idea for a podcast.' Continuing reading… Back to News + Stories READ SOURCE
Yahoo
17-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Duquesne University President Gormley stepping down
Duquesne University President Ken Gormley is stepping down. The university announced Saturday that Gormley will leave his role next year. By then, he will have served as president for 10 years. He began his career as a law professor at Duquesne University in 1994. In 2008, he became Interim Dean and Dean of the Law School, where he remained until 2015. The next year, he was named president. His colleagues consider him a top academic leader and said he brought innovation and strategic thinking to the school. University leaders applauded him for his ability to steer the campus through the COVID-19 pandemic. He also launched the College of Osteopathic Medicine among other achievements. Gormley is expected to continue to work the the university in a leadership role. Download the FREE WPXI News app for breaking news alerts. Follow Channel 11 News on Facebook and Twitter. | Watch WPXI NOW
