DOJ cuts off Guantanamo lawyer access after federal court ruling
JURIST — DOJ cuts off Guantanamo lawyer access after federal court ruling: A US Department of Justice lawyer has informed lawyers representing some 40 detainees at Guantanamo Bay that they will no longer be able to visit with or send written communications to their clients.
Software Freedom Law Center Files GPL Lawsuit
On Behalf of BusyBox Developers, SFLC Files First Ever U.S. GPL Violation Lawsuit: The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) on behalf of its clients, two principal developers of BusyBox, against Monsoon Multimedia, […]
Surveillance Law Must Protect Privacy and Security - Testimony
Surveillance Law Must Protect Privacy and Security — Testimony: Congress can enact legislation that meets the needs of intelligence agencies for defending national security, while still protecting the fundamental privacy rights of innocent Americans, CDT Policy Director Jim Dempsey told a congressional panel today. In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Dempsey identified a balanced approach that Congress could […]
So Why Hasn't Critical Theory Worked in Law?
I wondered previously why critical theory approaches (like the much-criticized Critical Legal Studies) haven’t had much of an impact on U.S. law or legal analysis. Maybe “litcrit” has relied too much on the fabled “Death of the Author” (even without realizing it) when trying to analyze case law. If your “author” keeps popping back up […]
Useful Introductions to Theory
The “Introductory Guide to Critical Theory” (which I extract from and link to below, along with other useful reference sites) provides an excellent basic introduction to some of the main points of contemporary critical theory (which I encountered as part of historical, literary and “textual” studies). It has amazed me so far in law school that these […]
The UC Irvine Fiasco
Belle Lettre writes: Prominent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke) was hired to be the inaugural dean of the new law school at UC Irvine.… UCI began a nationwide search for an inaugural dean, and Chemerinsky was one of the finalists — and up till this week, the chosen candidate. However, within a week of hiring him, Chancellor Michael Drake […]
The RIAA Meets Civil Procedure
Recording Industry vs The People: In May of this year, the United States Supreme Court came down with the decision in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly, –US –, 127 S. Ct. 1955 (May 21, 2007) which established a “plausibility” standard for federal pleadings. In Interscope v. Rodriguez, it was held that the RIAA’s boilerplate complaint, which it […]
Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere?
Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere? by Margaret A. Schilt in Legal Times: If you are looking for the future of legal scholarship, chances are that you may find it not in a treatise or the traditional law review but in a different form, profoundly influenced by the blogosphere. Law-related blogs are proliferating on […]
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