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Enjoy the holiday season, however and wherever you celebrate, and have a terrific 2015!
The photo shows the Pompejanum in Aschaffenburg, an idealised replica of an ancient Roman villa, located on the high banks of the river Main. It was commissioned by King Ludwig I of Bavaria and built in the 1840s. Given this year’s spring-like weather on Christmas Eve, a picture showing Aschaffenburg’s mediterranean side seemed appropriate.
(c) Tilmann2007 via Wikimedia
In a post in December 2012, I had promised that I would follow up with the answer to that question, which was taken from Professor Mathias W. Reimann’s 13th Ernst Rabel Lecture, delivered at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Following up took a bit longer, than I had thought. However, the lecture has now been published in The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law (RabelsZ). The title of the published article is somewhat less provocative: it now reads “The American Advantage in the Global Lawyering.”
Apologies to all readers for the blog’s downtime last week – thanks for your patience. It appears the blog has been a victim of brute force attacks. We are working on avoiding, or at least reducing, the impact of such attacks. When I learned about the attacks, I longed back to the days when “brute force” to me was just a line from a Rory Gallagher song. And how appropriate the title of that song is: “Brute Force and Ignorance”!
photo (c) Harry Potts
Fritz Bauer. The Prosecutor (Fritz Bauer. Staatsanwalt). The new exhibition at Frankfurt’s Jewish Museum opened on April 10, 2014. It is devoted to Fritz Bauer, the State Attorney General (Generalstaatsanwalt) for the state of Hesse and the driving force behind the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials that ran from December 20, 1963 to August 19, 1965. If you are in town between now and early September, go and see it.