GLOBAL & DOMESTIC OUTLOOK CELEBRATIONS Compiled by Tracy Schorn FRANCE In France, there is no oath of office. Instead there are a variety of civil and military ceremonies. In one, the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor pins the president with the Grand Cross and presents him with the Grand Collar of the Legion of Honour, intoning: "Mr. President of the Republic, we recognize you as the Grand Master of the National Order of the Legion of Honour." IRELAND The president-elect is escorted to the inauguration in a 1947 Rolls-Royce, accompanied by a squadron of motorcycles, where he or she is sworn in at Dublin Castle. INDIA In 2014 Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party to power as India's prime minister. BJP celebrants paraded holding a shivling, a symbolic representation of Hindu God Shiva. SOUTH AFRICA A 5-rand coin commemorating the presidential inauguration of Nelson Mandela in 1994 - the first democratic election in South Africa's history - is now the one of the fastest appreciating rare coins in history. * WASHINGTON LAWYER * JANUARY 2017 37http://www.dcbar.org