However, his most significant contributions can be found elsewhere. As Emperor of France, Napoleon crafted and codified a legal system that remains the basis of continental jurisprudence.
Eventually, they lend their testimony to a sprawling legal team that builds what Mr Higham and Ms Horwitz call " the most complex civil action in the history of American jurisprudence" .
One lawyer who can be said to have taken up the challenge was John Eastman, a senior fellow at the institute for 30 years and the founder and director of Claremont's Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence.
When I show you that the application of this doctrine demands in the first place a mastery of the science of manners, you may think my jurisprudence has a flavor of the court and of the training I received as a Lenoncourt.