Herdwick a "smit") of marking sheep for ownership. Before chemical dyes became available, this dye was made from either iron ore or graphite mixed with grease. For many years the legal method of identifying a particular shepherd's sheep were notches cut out of a sheep's ear, called "lug" marks—now replaced by ear tags. Herdwick The Herdwick is a breed of domestic sheep native to the Lake District of Cumbria in North West England. The name "Herdwick" is derived from the Old Norse "herdvyck", meaning sheep pasture. Though low in lambing capacity and perceived wool quality when compared to more common commercial
Jan Smits University Law School, the University of Leuven, the University of Liège, Louisiana State University and the Penn State Dickinson School of Law. Jan Smits is a member of the Ius Commune Research School. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2010. It was announced in July 2017 that Smits will succeed Professor Dr. Hildegard Schneider as new dean of Maastricht University's Faculty of Law on 1 December 2017. Jan Smits Jan M. Smits (born 1967) is a Dutch law professor. He is the dean of the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University, where