Bourbon-Two Sicilies Scion Weds Spanish Duchess

Thanks to the research of royal genealogist (and our dear friend) Hein Bruins, it has become known that Don Rodrigo Moreno y Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Doña Casilda Ghisla Guerrero-Burgos y Fernández de Córdoba, XXI Duquesa de Cardona, were married in 2020.

Infanta Alicia of Spain, Dowager Duchess of Calabria, and her grandson Don Rodrigo Moreno y de Borbón attend the wedding of the Prince of Asturias in 2004.
Photograph (c) Julián de Domingo.

Rodrigo's maternal grandfather:
HRH Infante Alfonso of Spain, Duke of Calabria.

Born in 1962, Rodrigo Moreno y Borbón-Dos Sicilias is the eldest of the seven children of Don Iñigo Moreno y Arteaga (b.1934), Marqués de Laserna, and his wife Princess Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (b.1937). Rodrigo's paternal grandparents are Don Francisco de Asís Moreno y de Herrera (1909-1979), Conde de Los Andes, and his wife Doña Maria Teresa de Jesús de Arteaga y Falguera (d.1962), Marquesa de La Eliseda. Rodrigo's maternal grandparents are Infante Alfonso of Spain (1901-1964), Duke of Calabria, and his wife Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma (1917-2017). Rodrigo's first cousin is Prince Pedro of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Duke of Calabria. Rodrigo Moreno y de Borbón is a great-great grandson of King Alfonso XII of Spain (1857-1885) and his wife Queen Maria Cristina (1858-1929; née Archduchess of Austria).

The Duchess of Cardona stands next to Princess Cristina of the Two Sicilies while the duchess is named by the Duke of Calabria as the the Patroness of the Royal Delegation in the Principality of Catalonia of the Sacred and Military Constantinian Order of St. George (2019).
Photograph courtesy of the Sacra y Militar Orden Constantiniana de San Jorge.

Casilda Ghisla's maternal grandfather:
HE Don Luis Jesús Fernández de Córdoba y Salabert, XVII Duque de Medinaceli.

Born in 1981, Casilda Ghisla Guerrero-Burgos y Fernández de Córdoba is the only child of the late Doña Casilda Fernández de Córdoba y Rey (1941-1998), Duquesa de Cardona, and her second husband Don Antonio Guerrero Burgos (1924-1984). At her baptism in October 1981, Casilda Ghisla had Doña Angela Téllez-Girón y Duque de Estrada, XVI Duquesa de Osuna, and Don Francesco Guerrero Burgos stand as her godparents. Casilda Ghisla's maternal grandparents are Don Luis Jesús Fernández de Córdoba y Salabert (1880-1956), XVII Duque de Medinaceli, and his second wife Doña María de la Concepción Rey de Pablo Blanco (d.1971). The Duchess of Cardona was previously married to Emilio Prieto y Reina; from this marriage she has one daughter, Doña Casilda Prieto y Guerrero-Burgos. The Duchess of Cardona's maternal aunt was the well-known Doña Victoria Eugenia Fernández de Córdoba y Fernández de Henestrosa (1917-2013), XVIII Duquesa de Medinaceli, who counted among her children-in-law a Prince zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg and a Princess of Orléans-Bragança.

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Don Rodrigo Moreno y Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Doña Casilda Ghisla Guerrero-Burgos y Fernández de Córdoba, Duquesa de Cardona, are fourth cousins. The couple both descend from Don Andrés Avelino de Arteaga y Carvajal Vargas (1807-1850), marqués de Valmediano, and his wife Doña Fernanda María de Silva-Bazán y Téllez-Girón (1808-1879).

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Quiroga-Villamarín on the Material Turn in the History of International Law

Gated, but very interesting: Beyond Texts? Towards a Material Turn in the Theory and History of International Law, by Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín, in the Journal of the History of International Law, from a master’s thesis on Shipping Containers, Materiality, and Legal History:

While the history of international law has been mainly dominated by intellectual history, the neighboring humanities and social sciences have witnessed a ‘material turn.’ Influenced by the new materialisms, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists have highlighted the role of objects and nonhuman infrastructures in the making of the social. Law, however, has been conspicuously absent from these discussions. Only until recently, things began to be studied as instruments of – global – regulation. In this article, I trace an intellectual history of the intellectual history of international law, contextualizing it since its inception in the so-called ‘Cambridge School’ to its spread into the legal field via the Critical Legal Studies movement and its final import into international law in the last two decades. I conclude arguing that international legal historians can depart from the ‘well-worn paths’ of intellectual and conceptual history to engage with the materiality (past, present, and future) of global governance.

–Dan Ernst

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The 101st Birthday of Princess Marie-Louise of Croÿ, Aunt of the Duke of Croÿ

Princess Marie-Luise von Croÿ in 1941.

Her Serene Highness Princess Marie-Luise (Louise) Natalie Engelberta Ludmilla von Croÿ was born at Dülmen on 18 December 1919. The princess was the third child and second daughter of Duke Karl Rudolf of Croÿ (1889-1974) and his first wife Nancy Leishman (1894-1983). She joined an older brother and sister: Duke Karl of Croÿ (1914-2011; married Princess Gabrielle of Bavaria) and Princess Antoinette (1915-2011). Marie-Louise's father was married to Helen Lewis (1898-1976) from 1922-1931. In 1933, Duke Karl married Marie Louise Wiesner (1904-1945); they produced Marie-Louise's only half-sibling: Prince Clemens von Croÿ (1934-2013). Marie-Louise's mother Nancy later married Markus Andreas d'Oldenberg (1877-1939).

Richard Metz.

On 11 March 1941 at New York, Princess Marie Louise married Richard Edward Metz (1912-1997). The couple had one child. Their daughter Valerie de Croy Metz was born at New York City on 23 January 1945. Princess Marie Louise and Richard Metz divorced in 1949. Aged eighty-five, Richard passed away on 26 October 1997 in New York.

On 5 May 1972 at Paris, Valerie Croy Metz married Philippe de Boissieu, the son of Victor de Boissieu; this union ended in divorce. In 1976 at New York, Valerie Croy Metz remarried Francesco L. Cottafavi, with whom she had one child: Vittorio Edoardo Cottafavi (b.4 December 1976). Valerie and Francesco eventually divorced. Afterwards, Valerie married John Francis Heisig (1924-2019). Valerie Croy Metz Heisig passed away in the 1990s.

On 14 June 2014 at Camden, Maine, Vittorio Cottafavi married Julia E. Sortwell, the daughter of Edward B. Sortwell and Melinda Szep. Vittorio and Julia have two children: Olivia and Francesco. These are the only great-grandchildren of Princess Marie Louise of Croÿ.

Nelson Slater.

On 27 November 1952, Princess Marie Louise married Horatio Nelson Slater III (1893-1968). The Slaters are an American philanthropic, political, and manufacturing family from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut whose members include the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," Samuel Slater, a prominent textile tycoon who founded America's first textile mill, Slater Mill (1790), and with his brother John Slater founded Slatersville, Rhode Island in North Smithfield, Rhode Island in 1803, America's first planned mill village. After moving many of their mills to the South from New England, the village of Slater-Marietta, South Carolina, was named after the family. Marie Louise of Croÿ was widowed on 22 April 1968 when her husband Nelson died at Lausanne, Switzerland, at the age of seventy-four.

Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. with his mother Ellen Walters Delano Adams.

Thirdly, on 23 July 1969, Princess Marie Louise married Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr. (1910-2001), the son of Frederick Baldwin Adams (1878-1961) and Ellen Walters Delano (1884-1976). Mr. Adams, a first cousin once removed of Franklin D. Roosevelt through his mother, was the director of the Pierpont Morgan Library from 1948 until 1969, when he and Marie-Louise moved to Paris.

Princess Marie Louise of Croÿ still lives in France.

Happy Birthday Princess!

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Min Su Kim

Min Su Kim

Modeling Fall 2020

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Paul Lambrino - Who Is in Portugal - Has Been Sentenced to Prison in Romania

The High Court of Cassation and Justice has sentenced Paul Lambrino (aka "Paul Philippe Hohenzollern" and aka "Paul al Romaniei") to three years and four months in prison due to influence buying, money laundering and complicity to abuse of office. The sentence is final and enforceable; it cannot be appealed. The sentence is in connection with a corruption case to which Mr Lambrino and twenty-one other defendants are tied. According to DNA (National Anticorruption Directorate), the charges against the defendants concern crimes committed between 2006-2013 in various forms of participation, in the interest of obtaining real estate of special value, including the Snagov Forest and Baneasa Royal Farm, the ownership of which was illegally claimed by Paul Lambrino. Mr Lambrino had worked with others to develop these properties, and outlandish profits were promised to investors in the scheme. 

When the police arrived at the Lambrino residence in Bucharest at 9:32pm this evening, they did not find Paul there. According to his wife Lia, Mr Lambrino is in Portugal. Lia Lambrino spoke to police for only fifteen minutes and did not answer questions from reporters ... though she did tell one to move, as his body was blocking the censor to her gate, which she was trying to close. The police left the Lambrino residence at 10:00pm. At 10:15pm, Bucharest police confirmed that they are now in the process of obtaining an arrest warrant for Paul Lambrino. A police spokesperson stated: "Regarding the person sentenced to imprisonment, given that he was not found at home, the prosecution procedure begins. The activity of obtaining an European arrest warrant and of an international search has started."

Within the past few months, Paul Lambrino traveled to Portugal to stake his unfounded claim as the heir to the bulk of the estate of King Carol II of Romania, who died in exile in Portugal in 1953. Although Paul was in Portugal, and his wife Lia stated today he was in that country, some are speculating that Mr Lambrino may now be in Italy.

Born in 1948 at Paris, Paul-Philippe Lambrino is the only child of Mircea Grigore Carol Lambrino (1920-2006; the son of eventual King Carol II of Romania and his first, morganatic wife Zizi Lambrino) and his first wife Hélène Henriette Nagavitzine, known as opera singer Léna Pastor (1925-1998). In 1996, Paul Lambrino married Lia Georgia Triff (b.1949; the ex-wife of American attorney Melvin Belli). The couple have one son, Carol Ferdinand Lambrino (b.2010).

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For more information on the background of this case, feel free to read the following articles:

2013: "Prince" Paul of Romania goes to court against Romanian state to recover land from the former Baneasa Royal Farm

2015: Romanian ‘Prince’ arrested in illegal retrocession case

2016: Remus Truica, "Prince" Paul and Dan Andronic, arraigned in “Baneasa Farm” Case

2019: Convictions In Baneasa Farm File: Remus Truica- 4 Years In Prison, Paul Of Romania- 3 Years On Probation, Other 7 Defendants Acquitted

2020: Israeli Billionaire Steinmetz Charged by Romania's Top Court With Bribery

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Female Imprimatur: Women in the Lawbook Trade.

[We have the following announcement of an online exhibit at Boston College Law School.  DRE]

Female Imprimatur: Women in the Lawbook Trade.  This exhibit was inspired by the 100th anniversary in August 2020 of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted suffrage to some—though certainly not all—American women. In the summer before the anniversary, Rare Books Curator Laurel Davis, Professor Mary Bilder, and Associate Law Librarian Helen Lacouture went digging into our special collections to find lawbooks with imprints featuring women printers and booksellers.   

More.

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Xi Jian Goh

Xi Jian Goh

Photo Shoots 2018 and 2019

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Gilhooley on slavery and the Constitution

Simon J. Gilhooley (Bard College) has published The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding in the series Cambridge Studies on the American Constitution, edited by Maeva Marcus, George Washington University; Melvin I. Urofsky, Virginia Commonwealth University; Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School; Keith Whittington, Princeton University. From the publisher: 

This book argues that conflicts over slavery and abolition in the early American Republic generated a mode of constitutional interpretation that remains powerful today: the belief that the historical spirit of founding holds authority over the current moment. Simon J. Gilhooley traces how debates around the existence of slavery in the District of Columbia gave rise to the articulation of this constitutional interpretation, which constrained the radical potential of the constitutional text. To reconstruct the origins of this interpretation, Gilhooley draws on rich sources that include historical newspapers, pamphlets, and congressional debates. Examining free black activism in the North, Abolitionism in the 1830s, and the evolution of pro-slavery thought, this book shows how in navigating the existence of slavery in the District and the fundamental constitutional issue of the enslaved's personhood, Antebellum opponents of abolition came to promote an enduring but constraining constitutional imaginary.

Praise for the book: 

"Gilhooley gives us a new and profoundly original account of the roots, during the era of slavery, of today's battles over constitutional interpretation. In the process, he reconceives the political legacy of the 1820s and 1830s, scrambles our contemporary assumptions about the ideological meaning of the different theories of the Constitution, and thoroughly dissects the American worship of the founders. This is a terrific book and one to be returned to again and again." -Aziz Rana

"This book is convincing and profound: a real tour de force. Gilhooley is immensely clarifying on points of history, political theory, and legal/constitutional development precisely because he integrates them. His argument that originalism emerged as a response to the exigencies of antebellum debates will be a touchstone for a very long time." -David Waldstreicher

Further information is available here.

--Mitra Sharafi

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Korona günlerinde Ekim ayı güncesi

Nedir; dedim bu yaşamak? Bir düş, dedi; birkaç görüntü. * Ömer HayyamŞu yaşadıklarımıza hangi adı vereceğimi bilemiyorum! Çünkü gerçekten sanki bir düş içindeyiz! Oysa düş falan değil yaşadıklarımız!  Radyoda Zeki Müren söylüyor; 'Zaman, sanki biiir rüüüzgâr ve biir su gibiii aaaksın!'...  bende nakaratlarda eşlik edip duruyorum. 'Aksın' derken, evet su gibi aksın zaman, buna bir diyeceğim yok

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CFP: Legal History and Mass Migration

[We have the following call for papers.  DRE]

Legal Response to Mass Migration Between the 19th Century and the WWII 

Confronted with mass migration, since the mid-19th century Western legal culture was forced to face migrants not just as a sum of individuals, but as a phenomenon demanding new legal concepts and mechanisms appropriate to govern and regulate groups and collective subjects. European migrants moving towards colonies and the East led to a reconceptualization of traditional international law doctrines on state sovereignty in order to de-territorialize Western citizens who occurred to be in the Eastern countries, freeing them from the imperium of the local authority and entrusting them to their own consular courts. Whereas immigration into Western countries led to the adoption of protective legal strategies and exclusion mechanisms to bar the dangerous others, emigration of European citizens towards colonized regions and Eastern countries prompted the elaboration of exceptional safeguards and privileges for ‘civilizing’ migrants. The new challenges of mobility led jurists and legislators to reshape the peculiarity of ius migrandi through terminological as well as conceptual revisions (e.g. the notions of citizenship, sovereignty, territorial state, undesirable and dangerous alien), the elaboration of new disciplines such as international labor law and international migration law, and the creation of special administrative bodies or jurisdictions (e.g. immigration officers; board of inspectors; consular courts; inspectors of emigration; arbitral commissions for emigration).

The Legal History and Mass Migration project (PRIN 2017) invites proposals for papers relating to the theme of the juridical response to mass migration between the mid-19th century and WWII. Papers can be based on different methodologies and may refer to a broad variety of subjects, including, by way of example:

• application of methodologies such as global legal history, comparative legal history, critical analysis of law to the study of migration issues;

• relationship between local rules and international migration law;

• tensions between human rights’ recognition and border control policies;

• non-Western legal approaches to migration issues;

• construction of legal discourses, theories, justifications to support, contrast, govern, or limit mass migration;
  

• models of citizenship and integration or exclusion of alien immigrants in different countries;

• role of case law and/or resort to special tribunals with jurisdiction in migration issues as means of departing from ordinary rules and constitutional protections;
  

• institutional and informal mechanisms (such as ‘soft law’, role of unions or charitable institutions, nets of assistance of national citizens abroad etc.) adopted to deal with mass migration problems in different countries of both departure and destination;

• impact of mass migration on national and international labour law;

• racial paradigms and immigration laws;
  

• local/global economic impact of migration and its legal regulation;

• exploitation of criminal law concepts, discourses, practices to stir the public conviction about the social danger of mass migration

Proposals for papers are due by 30 March 2021 and should be submitted by e-mail at legalhistoryandmassmigration@gmail.com in Word format, following this order: (a) author(s); (b) affiliation; (c) e-mail address; (d) title of abstract; (e) body of abstract (apx 350 words).  Accepted papers will be presented at an international conference which will be held at the University of Naples in December 2021.  

Support for selected participants: funding for travel expenses and accommodation may be available. Please indicate with your paper proposal if you would like to be considered for a support, and if so, your expected expenses. All funding decisions will be made independently of paper acceptance.
Papers and pre-circulation: Please note that the conference panels will be structured around a short summary of speakers’ pre-circulated papers, followed by more extended discussion. It is our intention that accepted speakers will submit papers of no more than 4,000 words for circulation by Friday 22 October 2021.

For general inquiries, please email: info@legalhistoryandmassmigration.com

Conference Committee: Luigi Nuzzo (University of Salento), Michele Pifferi (University of Ferrara), Giuseppe Speciale (University of Catania), Cristina Vano (University of Naples Federico II).

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