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5 unusual facts about Lawrence M. Friedman


Langum Prizes

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

2011 (Legal History): Joanna L. Grossman and Lawrence M. Friedman, Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America

Restatements of the Law

Some of the most renowned legal scholars in the United States, including Judge Richard Posner and law professor Lawrence M. Friedman, have heavily criticized the Restatements, characterizing them as badly flawed.

Scribes: The American Society of Legal Writers

The Scribes Journal distribution now exceeds 10,000 copies and has published articles by some of the best-known figures in legal writing, including Garner himself, Joseph Kimble, Charles Alan Wright, Judge Richard Posner, Lawrence M. Friedman, Richard Wydick, Reed Dickerson, Dean Darby Dickerson, Irving Younger, Steven Stark and Wayne Schiess.

United States Housing Authority

Friedman, Lawrence M. Government and Slum Housing: A Century of Frustration (1968)


40 acres and a mule

In Pigford v. Glickman (1999), District Court Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled in favor of the farmers and ordered the USDA to pay financial damages for loss of land and revenue.

Archiinocellia

The specimen was first studied and described by the prolific paleoentomologist Anton Handlirsch from a specimen collected by Canadian geologist and paleontologist Lawrence M. Lambe during fieldwork in central British Columbia.

Bernard A. Friedman

On February 2, 1988, Friedman was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan vacated by Robert Edward DeMascio.

Burton C. Gray

He founded Scientific Time Sharing Corporation with Dan Dyer and Lawrence M. Breed, a computer software firm in the Washington, D.C. area.

Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

Simultaneous detection of ionization and heat with semiconductors at low temperature was first proposed by Blas Cabrera, Lawrence M. Krauss, and Frank Wilczek.

Dalian Software Park

Thomas L. Friedman, "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty First Century, Updated and Expanded" (New York: Penguin Books Ltd., 2006)

Daniel P. Friedman

Friedman and Felleisen wrote three more "little" books in the 1990s: The Little MLer, The Seasoned Schemer, and A Little Java, A Few Patterns.

He explored the use of macros for defining programming languages; with Kohlbecker, Felleisen, and Duba, he co-introduced the notion of 'hygienic macros' in a 1986 LFP paper that is still widely cited today.

His first text book, The Little LISPer, dates back to 1974 and is still in print in its fourth edition, now called The Little Schemer (with Felleisen).

David Friedman

David D. Friedman (born 1945), anarcho-capitalist writer, economist, and medieval reenactor

David F. Friedman (1923–2011), American filmmaker (exploitation films)

David Laibson

He received an A.B. (summa) from Harvard in 1988, studying under Benjamin M. Friedman, and went on to study at the London School of Economics (MSc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics) where he was a recipient of a Marshall Scholarship.

EDELWEISS

Simultaneous detection of ionization and heat with semiconductors at low temperature was an original idea by Lawrence M. Krauss, Mark Srednicki and Frank Wilczek.

Get in the Van

Photos are prominent in the book, and include work by Glen E. Friedman, Ed Colver, and Naomi Peterson as well as flyers by Greg Ginn's brother, Raymond Pettibon, and drawings by a member of Black Flag's crew called Davo.

Jacob H. Friedman

Friedman's expert testimony at the civil trial of cartoonist Frank Moser, accused of running down the son of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Richard Bruno Hauptmann, proved decisive in securing a verdict for Hauptmann's widow.

Jeffrey M. Friedman

Friedman was born in Orlando, Florida on July 20, 1954, and grew up in North Woodmere, New York, graduating from Hewlett High School in the Class of 1971.

Jerome B. Friedman

He was a judge on the Virginia General District Court for Juvenile & Domestic Relations from 1985 to 1991.

Laurance Safford

His identification with the Naval effort was so close that he was the Friedman of the Navy.

Lawrence M. Breed

Breed was the 1973 recipient (with Dick Lathwell and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery "for their work in the design and implementation of APL\360, setting new standards in simplicity, efficiency, reliability and response time for interactive systems.

Lawrence M. Judd

A source of controversy during his tenure, Judd commuted the sentence of Grace Hubbard Fortescue, socialite and niece of Alexander Graham Bell, convicted in the territorial courts of manslaughter in the death of a local man, Joseph Kahahawai.

Judd's service running Kalaupapa was a subject in the 2003 historical novel and national bestseller called Moloka'i by Alan Brennert as well as the historical account, The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman.

Judd was born March 20, 1887 in Honolulu, Hawaii, the grandson of Gerrit P. Judd, who was an early American Missionary, a cabinet minister to King Kamehameha III, and co-founder of Punahou School.

Lawrence M. Principe

His early studies focused particularly on the works of Robert Boyle, especially their connection to the earlier study of alchemy.

Lawrence M. Small

In 2004, Small pleaded guilty to violating federal bird-protection laws (ESA, CITES, MBTA) by owning Amazonian tribal artifacts that contained feathers of protected bird species.

LGBT rights in Michigan

In August 2012, judge Bernard A. Friedman invited the couple to amend their suit to challenge the state's ban on same-sex marriage, "the underlying issue".

Liberty Street Protest

In the summer of 2004 artist/photographer Glen E. Friedman had gained permission from his long-time friend Russell Simmons to make a huge political statement in the windows of his property across the street from the World Trade Center site in New York City, just before for the Republican National Convention.

Love Camp 7

It is also the first in the Nazi exploitation (or Nazisploitation) genre of concentration camp movies, including the Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS (1974) which was produced by David F. Friedman and led to several sequels with Dyanne Thorne as the titular character, and the Italian Nazi Love Camp 27 (1977) and Last Orgy of the Third Reich (1977), the latter of which helped launch Daniela Poggi's show business career.

M-325

In the history of cryptography, M-325, also known as SIGFOY, was an American rotor machine designed by William F. Friedman in 1936.

Modern Motherhood

Originally released in 1934, it would gain fame by being presented in the style of later road show filmmakers such as Kroger Babb and David F. Friedman, as it was presented around the country and typically featured a "Dynamic Sex Lecture" at each performance.

Nancy Seaman

On November 4, 2010, her conviction was overturned by United States federal judge Bernard A. Friedman on on the basis that her defense attorney were not fully able to develop their theory of battered woman syndrome.

Peter Boettke

Analytical anarchism is the name given by Peter Boettke, to the positive political economy of anarchism, or anarchism from the economic point of view, in the libertarian tradition of Murray Rothbard's For a New Liberty (1973) and David Friedman's The Machinery of Freedom (1973).

Planetary Radio

It made its debut on the Internet on November 25, 2002, with an interview with Planetary Society executive director Louis D. Friedman, in Windows Media.

Richard C. Friedman

Friedman studied at Bard College in the early 1960s, received his MD from the University of Rochester in 1966 and completed his psychiatric residency at Columbia University in 1970, following which he spent two years with the United States Army Medical Corps working in the psychiatric department of William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas, with the rank of Major.

Richard H. Lathwell

Richard Henry Lathwell was the 1973 recipient (with Larry Breed and Roger Moore) of the Grace Murray Hopper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.

Stanton T. Friedman

Friedman was employed for 14 years as a nuclear physicist for such companies as General Electric (1956–1959), Aerojet General Nucleonics (1959–1963), General Motors (1963–1966), Westinghouse (1966–1968), TRW Systems (1969–1970), and McDonnell Douglas, where he worked on advanced, classified programs on nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and compact nuclear power plants for space applications.

Stephen Friedman

Stephen J. Friedman, American academic and administrator who served as commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Stephen J. Friedman

After law school, he served as a law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court.

Steve Bencich

Steve Bencich is an American screenwriter best known for his work with Ron J. Friedman.

Technology in Star Trek

Physicist Lawrence Krauss has written The Physics of Star Trek, a book which postulates what phenomena might make some Star Trek technology feasible, while detailing the blunders the show has made.

Three Arrows Cooperative Society

Notable Three Arrows members include author Bruno Fischer, labor leader Israel Kugler, political activist Samuel H. Friedman and poet Peretz Kaminsky.


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