David Lenefsky

April 06, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Putin's threat on February 25 of a nuclear response if the United States or NATO "interferes with us" represents a major change in the concept of "no first use," a pledge or a policy by a nuclear weapons power not to be the first to use nuclear weapons.

By David Lenefsky

4 minute read

March 03, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Peale was a lifetime learner. Everything new captured his attention and imagination. His mind was an index of everything.

By David Lenefsky

5 minute read

January 18, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Culture creators are obviously not always cultured.

By David Lenefsky

6 minute read

December 02, 2021 | New York Law Journal

No one said it better than Aristotle in Politics (Book IV, Chapter 8 and Book V, Chapters 3 & 10): The interests of the community and individual citizen must comport; and, government leaders must adhere to the law of the land. And the laws must foster that alignment of interests.

By David Lenefsky

10 minute read

October 19, 2021 | New York Law Journal

The legal problem for Clara and Robert was that women in Saxony before age 21 needed permission to marry from both her parents.

By David Lenefsky

8 minute read

September 15, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Given the current deep divide in America in everything, politics, economics and race—and everywhere, urban/rural, coastal/hinterland, and the wide-ranging lack of tolerance for diversity and treatment of opponents as enemies—it is fair to ask whether the history of the Roman Republic is in our future?

By David Lenefsky

5 minute read

July 08, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Stuart's life reads like a novel, including three chapters of stressful legal matters.

By David Lenefsky

5 minute read

June 01, 2021 | New York Law Journal

He was gentle in family life and generous to his students, teaching pro bono to those who could not afford his fee, and being way ahead of his time encouraging female students. At the same time, David was a moral monster as a revolutionary politician.

By David Lenefsky

7 minute read

April 26, 2021 | New York Law Journal

Trumbull painted two unprecedented political events in world history which carried utmost moral significance—The Declaration of Independence and General Washington Resigning His Commission—and two great military events—Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, the turning point in the war, and Surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown, which essentially ended the war.

By David Lenefsky

7 minute read

March 24, 2021 | New York Law Journal

U.S. presidents exercising their constitutional pardon power might learn something from history—maybe.

By David Lenefsky

5 minute read