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I have been adding to this blog since 2005, so you will find a great deal of archival content. Some of it may be outdated, so read carefully!
- 12/2012
- Jürgen Habermas on the public sphere, the state, and the pri ...
Jürgen Habermas is a German sociologist and philosopher. He is perhaps most well known for ...
December 11, 2012
- 11/2012
- Kara Swanson on blood banks, commodification, and "de-proper ...
Kara Swanson, law professor (and history of science PhD) at Northeastern University, prese ...
November 18, 2012
- Nullification and Obamacare: rejection of the rule of law
The idea of nullification -- essentially, states telling the federal government that state ...
November 13, 2012
- Done recovering posts after server failure
After a little more than a week of work, I've successfully recovered from the server failu ...
November 10, 2012
- Recovering from server failure and bad backups: the Internet ...
Two days ago I received several emails notifying me that my sites were all down. Soon ther ...
November 3, 2012
- 10/2012
- Facebook's core problem: customers vs. users
Facebook’s massive growth came because they gave users what they wanted: connect with your ...
October 7, 2012
- 09/2012
- Do we need God to understand the Constitution?
September is the 225th anniversary of the United States Constitution. While it’s the found ...
September 23, 2012
- 08/2012
- Warrantless wiretaps and the Fourth Amendment: why would a c ...
In Appeals Court OKs Warrantless Wiretapping, David Kravets summarizes a recent 9th Circui ...
August 8, 2012
- 07/2012
- History and its purpose: the case of the government and the ...
"First Internet Message Arpanet UCLA" by Flickr user Dean Terry, used under a CC BY-NC-ND ...
July 26, 2012
- Abortion and constitutional underdetermination
Abortion is a complex and controversial topic. As such, I won’t try to deal with it fully ...
July 19, 2012
- Limits of interpretation: critiquing a lay reading of the 14 ...
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States remains arguably one of ...
July 13, 2012
- Critiquing a lay reading of the Constitution's "freedom of r ...
In this second part of my series on typical problems in lay readings of the Constitution, ...
July 7, 2012
- Critiquing constitutional readings: introduction and underde ...
"How The Left Redefined The Term 'Rights'" by Michael J. Nellett There are many challe ...
July 6, 2012
- The shifting critics of experts and expert agencies
During the 1960s, left-leaning critics in the United States began to attack expert agencie ...
July 2, 2012
- 06/2012
- Deliberative democracy in the face of irrationality and dist ...
Frank Fischer’s Democracy and Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry argues that the public ...
June 5, 2012
- 05/2012
- Nineteenth-century America was not a libertarian utopia
There is a commonly held perception that the United States in the nineteenth century lacke ...
May 17, 2012
- 04/2012
- Underdetermination and the balance between religion and scie ...
The Duhem-Quine thesis, when simplified, explains how a given set of facts can produce mor ...
April 26, 2012
- Objectivity, science, and (a)political action
Theodore M. Porter, in Trust in Numbers, argues that the American distrust of elites — and ...
April 23, 2012
- David Noble on "The Religion of Technology"
In The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention, David Nobl ...
April 19, 2012
- Benefits of viewing the right to privacy as a property right
There are many approaches to protecting privacy, but many of them run into conflicts, eith ...
April 19, 2012
- Four planning rules to avoid project disasters
One key reason to study history? To learn from the past: Take small steps. Favor rev ...
April 16, 2012
- The problem of expertise in a liberal democracy
Stephen Turner’s book, Liberal Democracy 3.0, provides a useful background to the problem ...
April 11, 2012
- Stephen Turner describes "The Social Study of Science before ...
Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions — in many ways established the modern fi ...
April 10, 2012
- Problems with treating privacy as a property right
"Cornwall School House Nº 3 (1830)" by Flickr user Don Shall. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. In the ...
April 9, 2012
- Privacy and the First Amendment: privacy as property?
In Copyright and the First Amendment: The Unexplored, Unbroken Historical Practice, Terry ...
April 9, 2012
- The rule of law in Michigan
"Michigan House of Representatives Floor" by Flickr user "lincolnblues." CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. ...
April 7, 2012
- 03/2012
- Contract law in the antebellum 19th century
The so-called “contracts clause” appears in Article I, section 10, clause 1 of the United ...
March 23, 2012
- Freedom to contract at the end of the nineteenth century
In Kermit Hall’s words, the nineteenth century saw the “triumph of contract” over property ...
March 23, 2012
- Post-war contract law in the nineteenth century
In many respects, the so-called “black codes” put in place in the South immediately after ...
March 23, 2012
- Reforming government regulations: Stephen Breyer’s technocra ...
In Breaking the Vicious Circle, Justice Stephen Breyer tackles the problem of regulation a ...
March 14, 2012
- Is everything old new again? Learning from the history of te ...
Peter Decherney, Nathan Ensmenger, and Christopher S. Yoo recently published an article, A ...
March 7, 2012
- 02/2012
- Revisiting copyright claims against Westlaw and LexisNexis: ...
In 2009, I wrote about a California lawsuit against Westlaw and LexisNexis for violating c ...
February 28, 2012
- The irrelevance of blog advertisements: a publisher's lament
"Ask For Young's Aerated Waters" by Flickr user ninastoessinger. CC BY-SA 2.0. After r ...
February 27, 2012
- If the Fourteenth Amendment didn’t exist, could Obama still ...
Periodically various lay people attempt to interpret the law in ways that fit their versio ...
February 25, 2012
- Protecting vested interests in the face of new technology: t ...
In the case of Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 36 U.S. 420 (1837), Justice Roger Ta ...
February 23, 2012
- Federal common law in the nineteenth century
Before we get into a discussion of federal (United States) common law in the nineteenth ce ...
February 20, 2012
- Federal vs. State Power in Antebellum America
The Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution) repres ...
February 19, 2012
- Lecture on 19th-Century Legal History Before the Civil War
I gave a lecture the other day to an undergraduate history class on the topic of 19th-cent ...
February 18, 2012
- 12/2011
- Ben Bratman on the First Amendment and Brandeis & Warren ...
Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis' 1890 law review article, "The Right to Privacy," has bee ...
December 9, 2011
- "The Right to Privacy" by Warren and Brandeis
The modern "right to privacy" is frequently attributed to Warren and Brandeis' groundbreak ...
December 9, 2011
- What is the First Amendment?
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is first of ten Amendments that ...
December 8, 2011
- Civil law's influence on early United States law
It is a law-school maxim today that the United States is a common-law country, while m ...
December 5, 2011
- The (scientific) development of common-law precedent
One of the defining characteristics of common law (as opposed to civil law) is the binding ...
December 5, 2011
- Privacy and the silo/filter/echo problem
The push for "privacy" that demands an ability to allow us to restrict who sees what-- ...
December 4, 2011
- Daniel Solove's six general types of privacy
Daniel J. Solove's 2008 book, Understanding Privacy, attempts to characterize and understa ...
December 3, 2011
- Narrative, free will, and legal responsibility: reading Cath ...
In my 1996 paper, "But that Speaking Makes it So": The Role of Narrative in the Format ...
December 1, 2011
- 11/2011
- Common law originalism: the common law was not so common
One reason to examine the reception of English common law in the American colonies is ...
November 28, 2011
- Privacy as secrecy and privacy as autonomy
The concept of "privacy"--as in "the right to privacy"--can be understood in a number ...
November 27, 2011
- On "The Role of Technology in Human Affairs"
In The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yocha ...
November 20, 2011
- Freedom of speech in the "Second Gilded Age"
In "Digital Speech and Democratic Culture: A Theory of Freedom of Expression for the I ...
November 20, 2011
- WordPress under Nginx and Varnish with W3TC
When it comes to my personal Internet presence, I am an inveterate tinkerer. I like to exp ...
November 11, 2011
- Reading William B. Stoebeck's "On the Reception of English C ...
In 1968, William B. Stoebeck published “On the Reception of English Common Law in the Amer ...
November 11, 2011
- Copyright and authorship: reading Thomas Streeter's Selling ...
In Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United Stat ...
November 9, 2011
- Neil Richards on "Reconciling Data Privacy and the First Ame ...
In "Thinking about privacy and the First Amendment," I discussed Eugene Volokh's criti ...
November 1, 2011
- 10/2011
- Robert Horwitz on the deregulation of American telecommunica ...
Robert Horwitz's The Irony of Regulatory Reform: The Deregulation of American Telecomm ...
October 30, 2011
- Thinking about privacy and the First Amendment
Part of the historical work I've been doing focuses on the history of privacy and the ...
October 27, 2011
- Free speech and broadcasting: Cohen v. California and FCC v. ...
Balancing strong First Amendment ("free speech") speech protections with the desire to ...
October 22, 2011
- Civil law and courts of equity: the common law is hybrid law
As I noted earlier in Civil law's influence on American common law: the appeal, ...
October 20, 2011
- Liberty or inflexibility: reading Antonin Scalia
Antonin Scalia, current Supreme Court justice and originalist extraordinaire, wrote "Commo ...
October 16, 2011
- National identity through postal delivery of newspapers
In Spreading the News, Richard R. John writes about the development of the American po ...
October 11, 2011
- Civil law's influence on American common law: the appeal
In "Salamanders and Sons of God," an article in The Many Legalities of Early America, ...
October 9, 2011
- On the legal basis for English possession of North America
James Muldoon's article in The Many Legalities of Early America, "Discovery, Grant, Ch ...
October 9, 2011
- Colonial Law in Early America
In The Common Law in Colonial America: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660, William ...
October 8, 2011
- 09/2011
- Will legal software replace lawyers?
An article in Slate claims: While legal automation will be a boon for those who ...
September 29, 2011
- Early lawyering in colonial America
In The Magic Mirror, Kermit Hall and Pater Karsten write: The colony's first t ...
September 28, 2011
- Why do legal history? First remarks on Kermit Hall's The Mag ...
The question of why we should do legal history at all is one that has occurred to me a ...
September 22, 2011
- Was early Supreme Court Justice John Marshall an originalist ...
The question of whether John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Cour ...
September 18, 2011
- First remarks on G. Edward White's The American Judicial Tra ...
I'm reading G. Edward White's The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading America ...
September 15, 2011
- Access to federal court records gets less free
As someone aspiring to be a legal historian, I'm generally impressed by the increasing ava ...
September 14, 2011
- 08/2011
- Further reflections on the nature of scientific evidence
For two weeks this July, I participated in a conference/summer session in Vienna (VISU) on ...
August 9, 2011
- 07/2011
- Facebook and Twitter and Google Plus... oh my!
So now we've got three--well, more like four--big players in the social networking space: ...
July 25, 2011
- Legal reasoning by analogy
My VISU presentation on reasoning in analogy in Warren and Brandeis' famous 1890 law revie ...
July 15, 2011
- Bayesian networks and criminal defense
I have begun to consider the utility of formal methods of evidential evidence ma ...
July 9, 2011
- Initial reflections on the nature of scientific evidence
For the last week I've been a part of the Vienna Institute Summer University (VI ...
July 9, 2011
- 05/2011
- The tech transfer process: buffering science from commercial ...
Technology transfer offices at universities are key players in the process of putting tech ...
May 31, 2011
- "Open transfer" agreements: mediating industry and universit ...
Madey v. Duke exposed one conflict when industry and universities work in overlapping area ...
May 30, 2011
- The intersection of universities and industry: tech transfer
Technology transfer offices at universities are responsible for implementing the Bayh-Dole ...
May 30, 2011
- Presenting "Privacy & The Telegraph"
A slideshow presentation of my talk on the shifting views on privacy, from the nineteenth ...
May 20, 2011
- Cloud concerns and data safety in the legal profession
More than many other professions, lawyers deal with confidential data. This data is often ...
May 13, 2011
- 04/2011
- How I use a blog in my research and writing
There are many (non-exclusive) reasons to blog: money, fame, narcissism, SEO, pr ...
April 30, 2011
- Judge Noble Hand hints at the move from property to people
I have already discussed how Fourth Amendment protections and related "right to privacy" ...
April 23, 2011
- Confidentiality vs. privacy
In the law, there is a difference between confidentiality and privacy, and it's a differen ...
April 22, 2011
- Were telegrams privileged communications?
Under the common law, a "privilege" shields communications between certain people from bei ...
April 17, 2011
- The long-forgotten "mere evidence" rule
In 1886, the Supreme Court in Boyd v. United States held that compelling product ...
April 12, 2011
- An argument for the "Inviolability of Telegraphic Correspond ...
Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Thomas M. Cooley, in a forward-looking article, advo ...
April 6, 2011
- The slow pace of Fourth Amendment change
In Protections for Electronic Communications: the Stored Communications Act and ...
April 4, 2011
- The Fourth Amendment: from property to people
American common law is founded on English legal precedents. These pre-18th century cases w ...
April 2, 2011
- 03/2011
- Working around the rules to give you movies on demand
David Pogue writes about a new startup that's trying to work around the limi ...
March 21, 2011
- What was the "right to privacy" in 1948?
It took nearly 50 years for Justice Brandeis' ground-breaking law review article on the ...
March 11, 2011
- 02/2011
- Constitutionalizing the sanctity of the mails
In "Wiretapping before the Wires: The Post Office and the Birth of Communications Privacy, ...
February 21, 2011
- New technologies lead to new constitutional protections
The boom in transportation and communications technologies in the nineteenth century outpa ...
February 13, 2011
- Law of privacy vs. confidentiality in the nineteenth century
Neil Richards and Daniel Solove, in "Privacy’s Other Path: Recovering the Law of Confident ...
February 10, 2011
- The telegraph and business invasions of privacy
The applicability of the Fourth Amendment to telegraphic communications in the l ...
February 7, 2011
- 01/2011
- Extending the Fourth Amendment beyond the home: Ex parte Jac ...
In 1878, the Supreme Court held in Ex parte Jackson: Letters and sealed packages of this ...
January 31, 2011
- Stepping stone to Internet privacy: the telegraph
There have been four pivotal technologies that have forced modern American law a ...
January 25, 2011
- Defamation, SLAPP, and medicine: Doctor's Data, Inc. v. Barr ...
Quackwatch tries to highlight medical practices that lack a basis in scientific or evidenc ...
January 17, 2011
- 12/2010
- Cassirer and the Enlightenment
Image via Wikipedia Cassirer’s work on the Enlightenment is quite unlike many of t ...
December 10, 2010
- The 1971 Supreme Court on WikiLeaks
Image via Wikipedia I am sympathetic to arguments that WikiLeaks has published inf ...
December 6, 2010
- Review of "Changing Fashions in Advocacy: 100 Years of Brief ...
Image via Wikipedia Helen A. Anderson of the University of Washington School of La ...
December 4, 2010
- 11/2010
- Science and Sociability in Mary Terrall's The Man Who Flatte ...
Image via Wikipedia For the enlightened of the mid-eighteenth century, the most fu ...
November 24, 2010
- Five useful blogging tools
Occasionally I like to take a break from my historical focus on law and technology, and in ...
November 22, 2010
- Thinking about theories of historiography
Recently, I've been struck by the sense that what seems to drive history as a profession ...
November 18, 2010
- A quick history of the changing lengths of copyright protect ...
Image via Wikipedia Since its codification in Britain in 1710, the length of copyr ...
November 16, 2010
- Considering comparative approaches in legal histories
I have proposed, perhaps overly uncritically, comparative approaches between legal and soc ...
November 12, 2010
- Going beyond national legal histories
"Lived history," writes Bender, "is embedded in a plenitude of narratives. ... ver time, d ...
November 4, 2010
- Changing technology, changing expectations of privacy
Do changing expectations of privacy through time reflect changes in societal attitudes, le ...
November 1, 2010
- 10/2010
- Dorinda Outram on the Enlightenment
In her book The Enlightenment (New Approaches to European History), Dorinda Outram gives a ...
October 28, 2010
- Technology and the archive
One of my primary interests is the connection between technology and law. The development ...
October 25, 2010
- The archive and the state
Archives, the collection of files and materials (electronic or physical) stored and mainta ...
October 17, 2010
- 08/2010
- Fashion fakes: copyright, trademark and creativity
There is no protection from copying designs in the fashion industry, so how are police abl ...
August 25, 2010
- Measuring the impact of technology on the law
It's difficult to come up with more quantitative measurements to look at how technology ha ...
August 18, 2010
- Juries and scientific expertise
The United States legal system--at least, the judicial process in the courtroom, whether t ...
August 9, 2010
- 07/2010
- Implications of the AP licensing scheme
So, the AP has in the past made a big deal about holding on to the rights to every tiny li ...
July 6, 2010
- 06/2010
- The marketplace of ideas
Intellectual property, despite the name, doesn't quite work like regular property. A look ...
June 25, 2010
- The new world of self-publishing: it's not just for vanity a ...
The Wall Street Journal has a great introduction to the new world of self-publishing: Muc ...
June 15, 2010
- Why not an open-access Law.gov to access public legal materi ...
Ameet Sachdev writes for the Chicago Tribune about Carl Malamud's vision of a new Law.gov ...
June 3, 2010
- Looking forward to reading the new Adrian Johns book
So illustrious a source as the Fred von Lohmann at the Electronic Frontier Foundation reco ...
June 2, 2010
- Was medieval Islamic culture inhospitable to science?
Myth #4 in Galileo Goes to Jail and Other Myths about Science and Religion is Syed Nomanul ...
June 1, 2010
- 05/2010
- Modern Islam and science: an article by Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Seyyed Hossein Nasr is an Iranian scholar of comparative religion and philosophy at George ...
May 26, 2010
- Copyright and the public domain
Randy Pickerhas a fascinating post on the Faculty Blog of the University of Chicago's ...
May 22, 2010
- Popper, Kuhn, and Creationism
Since at least McLean v. Arkansas in 1981, Creationists -- Christian fundamentalists who o ...
May 18, 2010
- Google attorney dislikes ACTA too
The still-in-draft Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, beloved of some, is hated by many ...
May 9, 2010
- Should mandatory open access be extended to all federally fu ...
I think this would be a great idea: Although there have been sporadic attempts to reverse ...
May 7, 2010
- The FCC re-classifies in response to Comcast
Last month, Comcast won its appeal in a federal appeals court in D.C. against the FCC's at ...
May 5, 2010
- Causation, faith, and intelligent design
There is a philosophical thesis (attributed jointly to Pierre Duhem and Willard Quine) tha ...
May 3, 2010
- 04/2010
- Some commonalities of pro- and anti-vaccination rhetoric
Within the context of the contemporary vaccination debate, neither side has a monopoly on ...
April 30, 2010
- The Stored Communications Act and you
It's always good to remember that storing your email on someone else's server is a potenti ...
April 23, 2010
- The splintering of the Internet is not a new phenomenon
There has been increasing discussion around the concept of the "splinternet": the idea tha ...
April 20, 2010
- My first look at historical shifts in anti-vaccination rheto ...
There is a long history of opposition to vaccination, opposition that dates back to its ea ...
April 18, 2010
- Science and Protestantism: why is evolution a target?
Robert Merton once postulated that the flourishing of Puritanism directly led to the growt ...
April 14, 2010
- The Statute of Anne: "An Act for the Encouragement of L ...
300 years ago Saturday, the Statute of Anne created the first modern system of copyright. ...
April 12, 2010
- Net neutrality and deference to the FCC
A few days ago the D.C. Circuit, in a 3-0 decision, held that the FCC could not require Co ...
April 11, 2010
- Vaccination and anti-vaccination at the turn of the 20th cen ...
By near the end of the nineteenth century, Jennerian vaccination had become a generall ...
April 2, 2010
- 03/2010
- Does the funding of anti-climate change groups by Koch Indus ...
Accusing opponents of being biased is a staple attack by all sides in many debates. As jus ...
March 31, 2010
- Smallpox inoculation and quarantine in colonial America
In colonial America, quarantine was a state-sponsored restriction on individual libert ...
March 28, 2010
- Copyright for Librarians: free and useful training
Copyright for Librarians is a useful resource for anyone--not just librarians--t ...
March 26, 2010
- Are universities about selling information?
No. Instead, they are about creating connections and spaces for thinking and growing -- ot ...
March 7, 2010
- 02/2010
- Is scientific peer review censorship?
Suzan Mazur -- a critic of "Darwinism" (I think she means modern biology) -- recently rais ...
February 28, 2010
February 26, 2010
- Are books -- electronic or not -- becoming "fringe medi ...
Kevin Kelleher of GigaOM believes that "books are becoming a fringe media." He writes: Lik ...
February 21, 2010
- Six more of the best WordPress plugins
I admit it. I'm a WordPress plugin junkie. I'm continually updating, adding, removing, and ...
February 20, 2010
- Wait, Second Life still exists? And universities still use i ...
I was surprised to read in the Chronicle of Higher Education that universities are still u ...
February 19, 2010
- Highlights of the Google Books settlement hearing
Norman Oder updates us on the arguments at the Google Books settlement hearing (part 1 and ...
February 19, 2010
- Who supports and who opposes the Google Books settlement
Norman Oder of the Library Journal is covering the Google Books fairness hearing, being h ...
February 18, 2010
- Terms of use for application programming interfaces (TOS for ...
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the key to leveraging existing Web services, ...
February 16, 2010
- Research preview: the historical case for vaccination
I am currently researching vaccination -- especially smallpox vaccination -- at the end of ...
February 13, 2010
- Should police need probable cause to request mobile-phone lo ...
There are currently no firm standards on the kinds of Fourth Amendment protections that sh ...
February 11, 2010
- You do not get an “A for effort” with copyright
In reaction to more claims that copyright exists to protect creators because of the effort ...
February 8, 2010
- Dear Starbucks and AT&T: fix your WiFi!
Technology on the road has a reputation for being finicky, whether "on the road" means the ...
February 7, 2010
- Retention of transactional Web browsing data
There has always been a lower standard for access by law enforcement to so-called "transac ...
February 6, 2010
- Does an open WiFi signal reduce your 4th Amendment protectio ...
Thomas O'Toole, writing on the E-Commerce and Tech Law Blog, points to an interesting case ...
February 4, 2010
- Can a teaching-focused law school fit into a public research ...
According to news reports (and a press release), the University of California, San Diego ( ...
February 2, 2010
- 01/2010
January 31, 2010
- Is the future of scholarship social? Should it be?
Reflecting on the release of Apple's iPad, David Weinberger suggests that it is a device f ...
January 28, 2010
- Challenging the big two in legal research
There have been several new entrants to the legal research marketplace, including the now- ...
January 26, 2010
- Want clients? Be helpful and do good
Reflecting on Avvo's Internet marketing conference for lawyers, Kevin O'Keefe of LexBlo ...
January 25, 2010
- EFF's warrantless wiretapping case dismissed
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports: A federal judge has dismissed Jewel v. NSA, a ...
January 22, 2010
- Escaping the Kindle lock-box is now easier for authors and p ...
Purchasing books on the Kindle has always struck me as a bit of a Faustian bargain (altho ...
January 21, 2010
- Applying the Fourth Amendment to data in the cloud
In a Note called Defogging the Cloud: Applying Fourth Amendment Principles to Evolving Pr ...
January 20, 2010
- Truth vs. relativism in science
In Science and Social Inequality by Sandra Harding, I found a discussion on p. 148 of clai ...
January 19, 2010
- FBI "technically violated" wiretap laws for years
"Technically violated" the law? Is that a defense? The FBI illegally collected more than ...
January 18, 2010
- Professionalization and the self-replication of university p ...
There has been an ongoing discussion regarding the challenges facing higher education in t ...
January 18, 2010
- Should signing a petition be a confidential act?
The Supreme Court has accepted a new case on to its docket, John Doe #1, et al., Petitione ...
January 16, 2010
- Historians need to stop obsessing over writing books
Why are historians so obsessed with writing books? Now that I'm on my second quarter of ...
January 13, 2010
- Extending mandatory open access beyond the NIH
Since late 2007, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has been mandated to provide to t ...
January 10, 2010
- Google and the historian
Dan Cohen gave an interesting talk at the American Historical Association meeting recently ...
January 9, 2010
- How to write attributions for the Creative Commons licensed ...
I've found that pictures shared under a Creative Commons (CC) license (of all flavors) are ...
January 7, 2010
- Don't go to grad school!
At least, don't go to grad school in the humanities. That's the message I've been heari ...
January 5, 2010
- DECE seeks complex DRM that approximates the simple first-sa ...
Consumer electronics manufacturers and Hollywood studios have a problem: when customers pu ...
January 4, 2010
- Why can the TSA subpoena bloggers to get at their sources?
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) issued a directive aimed at instituting n ...
January 1, 2010
- 12/2009
- Obama's newest FOIA-related order a boon for historians
President Obama came into office pledging greater openness, and his latest executive order ...
December 30, 2009
- A guide for non-lawyers researching legal problems
Cocky Law Blawg brings us this note: The Legal Information Services to the Public (LISP) S ...
December 29, 2009
- Making a personal site more dynamic
As part of a recent attempt to update my personal information online, I decided to update ...
December 28, 2009
- Scientists choose citations for "discriminatory" r ...
Researchers in Spain recently published an examination of scientific citation practices, a ...
December 23, 2009
- Law school is harder than grad school
I've been debating the difference between law school and grad school since I started ...
December 22, 2009
- Finding the diamonds in the rough in the "blogosphere&q ...
I've been giving a lot of thought over the weekend to the problem of finding goo ...
December 20, 2009
- Why should we keep others from selling our work?
Techdirt discusses why you shouldn't be concerned if someone "steals" your work ...
December 18, 2009
- Applying Robert Merton's "The Normative Structure of Sc ...
As part of an irregular series focusing on my graduate work in law and technology, I'm goi ...
December 18, 2009
- My top free tools for law firms and other small businesses
Carolyn Elefant recently provided her list of free tools for starting a law firm. In this ...
December 17, 2009
- Moving away from traditional publishers
As I noted a few days ago, there has been increasing attention to the idea of authors movi ...
December 15, 2009
- Google executives on trial for criminal liability in Italy
I'm generally in favor of holding companies liable for their actions -- after all, if we ...
December 14, 2009
- A dispute over the rights to e-book editions
That publishers and authors (or their estates) should be arguing over rights to production ...
December 12, 2009
- 11/2009
- Trademarks and the Apple App Store
Image via CrunchBase Apple's "app store" continues to generate controversy through ...
November 20, 2009
- The new Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is... problemati ...
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty ...
November 6, 2009
- 10/2009
- How does fair-use law work?
This is an excellent write-up about how fair use works, along with its complexities (and a ...
October 24, 2009
- Microsoft update leaves Firefox users unexpectedly vulnerabl ...
An add-on that Microsoft silently slipped into Mozilla's Firefox last February leaves tha ...
October 16, 2009
- Uniform bar exam drawing closer to reality
It could mark one of the biggest changes for lawyers joining the profession since the firs ...
October 15, 2009
- Modern media centers: the hard 20% is socio-legal
Cory Doctorow points out that the first 80% of creating a media center is easy: a dec ...
October 14, 2009
- 09/2009
- Law school vs. graduate school
Last May I finished my 3L year, and am now the proud possessor of a JD. On Thursday I bega ...
September 28, 2009
- Five lesser-known -- but great -- WordPress plugins
1. Login LockDown -- adds extra security to WordPress by restricting the number of fai ...
September 27, 2009
- Could you scrap Microsoft Office applications?
Image via Wikipedia IBM's Lotus Symphony is a free-of-charge alternative to the ubi ...
September 14, 2009
- Lawyers should leave their laptops at home when traveling ab ...
Image via Wikipedia Jim Calloway points out a troublesome issue for traveling attorneys: ...
September 9, 2009
- Is virtual lawyering the future?
An interesting paragraph from an article dealing with the idea of "Good Enough" -- service ...
September 2, 2009
- 08/2009
- Court transcripts and copyright awards
Image by cindiann via Flickr Ah, the challenges of equating production with copyright (a ...
August 29, 2009
- Google Books adds open-standard downloads
For anyone using any kind of electronic reader -- including a regular computer -- this add ...
August 27, 2009
- What's the proper basis for copyright law?
Sometimes I feel that I spend an inordinate amount of time attacking copyright, as if I wi ...
August 26, 2009
- The case of the disappearing case law
Case law -- the record of judicial opinions that all lawyers rely on -- increasingly lives ...
August 21, 2009
- Should the government need a warrant to access your Google B ...
Should accessing content via the Google Books service provide the same protections as one ...
August 19, 2009
- What modern copyright law means to our culture
Image via Wikipedia What does it mean to our culture that we have imposed the most draco ...
August 17, 2009
- What does it mean to be in the public domain? Thoughts about ...
The AP has begin trying to license content through a payment scheme. Some of the content - ...
August 4, 2009
- Different social networks for different purposes
Soren Gordhamer at Mashable has a good reminder of the differing purposes and us ...
August 1, 2009
- 07/2009
- Can Amazon's Kindle disrupt the current textbook market?
Image by Getty Images via Daylife BizOp News asks the question: Is the Kindle DX: Am ...
July 31, 2009
- Applying DRM to the news
The AP wants to apply DRM to the news. It won't work. Image by wwward0 via Flickr I ...
July 25, 2009
- Does selling access to court-filed attorney briefs violate c ...
Image via Wikipedia Legal Research Plus brought this to my attention, originally from ...
July 24, 2009
- Amazon apologizes for Kindle fiasco
Image via CrunchBase Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com apologizes for the 1984 Kindle fiasco: Thi ...
July 24, 2009
- Should there be no copyright for academic publications?
Worth reading and considering is a new draft article by Professor Steven Shavell (author o ...
July 23, 2009
- Google responds to publishers
Image by Getty Images via Daylife According to Rob Salkowitz of Internet Evolution, in t ...
July 22, 2009
- Current themes evident in copyright arguments from 100 years ...
From thepublicdomain.org comes this interesting and revealing series of excerpts from the ...
July 21, 2009
- Amazon's Kindle DRM strikes again
Yet another example of the problems with DRM and the Kindle: This morning, hund ...
July 17, 2009
- New law journal launches that focuses on open source
There's a new law journal in town: The (IFOSS L. Rev.) is a collaborative legal publicati ...
July 16, 2009
- Is online legal education a viable alternative to traditiona ...
Last month, Ross Mitchell made headlines when he became the first online law school gradua ...
July 15, 2009
- When is print better than online?
Greg Lambert at 3 Geeks and a Law Blog writes: Generally, the discussion has tended to l ...
July 13, 2009
- Openness and the social web
A recurring theme for me is the difficulty of keeping markets "open," in the sense of empo ...
July 10, 2009
- Write an article; find a job
Debra Bruce suggests that lawyers looking for work think about writing an article to aid i ...
July 9, 2009
- Using a blog to get a job
A blog can be a very useful way for a lawyer looking for work to find connections and, hop ...
July 8, 2009
- Are law schools relevant to the future of law?
Paul Lippe, a well-known Silicon Valley GC and founder of Legal OnRamp (LOR), recently po ...
July 7, 2009
- WordPress and the GPL
The WordPress blog has an interesting post up about the applicability of the GPL to WordPr ...
July 6, 2009
- Should ringtones count as a "public performance"?
Should someone -- either you or your carrier -- have to pay additionally for a "public per ...
July 5, 2009
- BlawgIT's introduction to "fair use"
Brett Trout has a useful introduction to "fair use" up on BlawgIT. The goal is to help you ...
July 4, 2009
- The myth of "original creation"
Techdirt has an interesting article up about the myth of the "original creator" - the id ...
July 3, 2009
- Patent simulation study concludes current patent system hamp ...
Image by cytech via Flickr A recently published law review article takes an interesti ...
July 3, 2009
- Attorney ethics require effective research skills: "the ...
Whatever you feel about the "torture memos," one underlying lesson is an important one for ...
July 2, 2009
- Researchers typically forbidden from sharing own work
Ed Kohler points us to a long, but fascinating blog post, by Stuart Shieber, a CS professo ...
July 1, 2009
- 06/2009
- Disruption and change in publishing
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Michael Nielsen wrote a stellar piece dealing with ...
June 29, 2009
- Judge Posner: Expand copyright to protect newspapers?
Image via Wikipedia Judge Richard Posner has recently suggested that copyright law mi ...
June 29, 2009
- "Copyfraud" and Google Books
The Register and Slashdot have picked up a theme from a 2006 law review article by Jason M ...
June 26, 2009
- Amazon's Kindle and digital rights management
There have been several stories over the last week about issues related to digital rights ...
June 25, 2009
- Law blogging and attorney advertising: Stern v. Bluestone
Image via Wikipedia The New York State Court of Appeals, in Stern v. Bluestone, 2009 NY ...
June 25, 2009
- Unravelling the Canadian Copyright Lobby
Especially important to everyone in Canada - but important to everyone around the world, s ...
June 24, 2009
- 5 Social Networking Sites for Legal Job Seekers
Today's legal job market is tough. To succeed, you need to use all the tools you can. Some ...
June 23, 2009
- File sharing and "fair use"
Latoicha Givens writes: In the case of RIAA vs. Joel Tenenbaum, the court is currently a ...
June 22, 2009
- The long history of restrictions on speech
The fact is that throughout much of American history, there were all sorts of restrictions ...
June 19, 2009
- Technology and social media alter recruiting and job seeking
Image via Wikipedia NPR brings us some useful new "rules of the road" for those seeki ...
June 18, 2009
- The Thomas file-sharing retrial
The almost two million dollar award is $80,000 per song. $80,000. Damages are supposed to ...
June 18, 2009
- Third-party copyright liability & freedom of speech
Alfred C. Yen of Boston College recently posted A First Amendment Perspective on the Const ...
June 18, 2009
- Study on file sharing and copyright: weaker protections bene ...
Economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf have just released a new Harvard Busi ...
June 18, 2009
- My Current Top 5 Favorite WordPress Plugins
There are many, many WordPress plugins out there (WordPress has instructions on how to ins ...
June 16, 2009
- Narratives and evidence in the litigation of high-tech paten ...
Colleen Chien has a paper in SSRN, dated April of 2009, that explores the narrative of pa ...
June 16, 2009
- Is "free" a potentially workable business model fo ...
Chris Anderson wrote last year in Wired: It's now clear that practically everything Web te ...
June 15, 2009
- Internet access as a fundamental human right?
On June 10th, France's version of the Supreme Court struck down parts of a new French law ...
June 13, 2009
- The current television business model will fail
Henry Blodget writes in the Silicon Valley Insider that: Thus far, the TV industry has ...
June 13, 2009
- National Rifle Association of America v. City of Chicago
Image by Jeff Kubina via Flickr Sandy Levison recommends reading a recent 7th Circuit ...
June 12, 2009
- Texas effectively denies open access to state law
Image by jmtimages via Flickr According to the Advocate's Studio, a recent change to the ...
June 12, 2009
- A manifesto for the new Web from building43
Image by Robert Scoble via Flickr Building43 is the latest Robert Scoble/Rackspace ve ...
June 12, 2009
- Business method patents rejected in Canada
Image via CrunchBase Michael Geist explains the current status of business method pat ...
June 12, 2009
- Secret evidence is incompatible with the rule of law
Two recent rulings bring up the question of "secret evidence," that is, evidence used agai ...
June 11, 2009
- Professionalism and pharmacist protection laws
Image by prudencebrown121 via Flickr Dave Fagundes writes at PrawfsBlawg about "pharm ...
June 10, 2009
- The dual nature of the U.S. Constitution
Image via Wikipedia Sandy Levinson has an interesting response to "It Is a Constituti ...
June 10, 2009
- Promises, promises: the MBA oath
Image via Wikipedia An interesting new drive for greater ethical behaviour in the bus ...
June 8, 2009
- Is the crisis in attorney hiring due to the failure of legal ...
Image by ZaNiaC via Flickr Jordan Furlong at Slaw.ca suggests that the current trend ...
June 7, 2009
- Evolution vs. Revolution: Overcoming Resistance to Change
Image via CrunchBase Speaking in the context of technology, Michael Crandell at GigaO ...
June 6, 2009
- Thomson Reuters Lawsuit Against Zotero Dismissed
Image via Wikipedia Sean, a Zotero co-director, announced yesterday that the lawsuit ...
June 5, 2009
- Track Changes in Terms of Service
Image via Wikipedia The Electronic Frontier Foundation has introduced a useful new to ...
June 5, 2009
- "Everything is free" is not a business model
Image via CrunchBase Mike Masnick responds to the complaint of some people that providin ...
June 5, 2009
- Adapting the Law to New Theories of Science
John Pfaff continues his interesting discussion of science, the adversarial process, and t ...
June 5, 2009
- In re Bilski Revisited: Business-Method Patents to Go Before ...
Image via Wikipedia Ashby Jones writes: This just in: The Supreme Court on Monday ...
June 1, 2009
- Journalism and Ethical Blogging
Image via Wikipedia Martha Sperry of the Advocate's Studio writes: Yesterday, I read ...
June 1, 2009
- 05/2009
May 30, 2009
- Obama to Appoint Information Security Coordinator
Image by Myles! via Flickr President Barack Obama confirmed Friday that the White Hou ...
May 29, 2009
- Are Tweets Copyrightable?
Image by Travelin' Librarian via Flickr Brock Shinen writes an in-depth article from ...
May 28, 2009
- Have "Real-Time" Services Altered the Balance of t ...
Image via Wikipedia The DMCA has a bad reputation with those who prefer to see greater fr ...
May 24, 2009
- Journalist Shield Laws and Bloggers
Image via Wikipedia Should so-called "shield laws," intended to provide protection for jo ...
May 21, 2009
- What You Write Could Get You Sued
Image by AFP/Getty Images via DaylifeFrom the Wall Street Journal comes an article cheerfu ...
May 21, 2009
- Craigslist vs. South Carolina's Attorney General
Craigslist, under threat from the Attorney General of South Carolina, has decided to proac ...
May 20, 2009
- Saving Newspapers by Changing the Law
Image by Getty Images via Daylife In an article entitled, Lawyers: To Save Newspapers, Le ...
May 19, 2009
- Domestic Wiretaps Down in 2008 (including FISA)
Image via Wikipedia Domestic wiretaps have dropped by 14 percent from 2007 to 2008. FISA ...
May 16, 2009
- Random House Disabling Kindle Speech
Image by Getty Images via Daylife Random House now disabling text-to-speech function ...
May 15, 2009
- 10 Alternative Legal Research Sites
Looking for alternatives to expensive legal research through Westlaw and LexisNe ...
May 12, 2009
- Are Westlaw and LexisNexis simply selling "free" i ...
Image by mattlary via Flickr Minneapolis News - Westlaw rises to legal publishing fame by ...
May 11, 2009
- The Failure of Public WiFi
Image by Getty Images via Daylife SSRN-The Failure of Public WiFi by Eric Fraser: This sh ...
May 9, 2009
- Bringing Better Science to the Courtroom
Image by maveric2003 via Flickr As long as I'm following the lead of Lawrence Solum at th ...
May 5, 2009
- IP and Traditional Knowledge
Image via WikipediaThe Uneasy Case for Intellectual Property Rights in Traditional Knowled ...
May 5, 2009
- 10 Hints for Representing Yourself in Court
It's not easy to represent yourself in court. Here are some useful tips that may help with ...
May 3, 2009
- Representing yourself in propria persona
Image via Wikipedia In the Unites States, litigants and criminal defendants generally hav ...
May 3, 2009
- Six Small Marketing Steps
Right now, as you read this, someone out there needs the service you provide. - Aviva Cu ...
May 1, 2009
- 04/2009
- Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls
Study: Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls - ReadWriteW ...
April 30, 2009
- An Evidence-Based Approach to Law and Science
John Pfaff has been writing a series of articles for PrawfsBlawg over the last m ...
April 29, 2009
- NIH Open Access Continues to be Attacked
Image via WikipediaMarketplace: Publicly funded research for a price:Publicly funded resea ...
April 29, 2009
- Reusable Example Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
So you've decided your new Web site needs a privacy policy or terms of service. ...
April 28, 2009
- Music Pirates in Canada!
"MUSIC PIRATES IN CANADA: American Publishers Say They Are Suffering by Copyrigh ...
April 26, 2009
- Lawyers and Technology: The Mystery of Metadata
Image by StarrGazr via Flickr Jim Calloway writes about a new opinion by the New Ha ...
April 23, 2009
- Libraries and Fair Use
Simon Chester at Slaw.ca has an excellent article up about World Book and Copyright Day. ...
April 23, 2009
- Open-Access Law
Image via Wikipedia The Lawyers Weekly (of Canada) writes about free vs. paid online le ...
April 19, 2009
- Copyright as Antidote to DRM
Image via Wikipedia Consider this idea: without copyright protection for digital media, w ...
April 17, 2009
- Rosetta Stone Files for an IPO
Image via WikipediaMarketplace on NPR: Will this IPO translate into turnaround?:Rosetta St ...
April 17, 2009
- Challenging the Strong Presumption of Patent Validity
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Challenging the Strong Presumption of Patent Validity One of ...
April 17, 2009
- Social media for law students (and everyone else)
Image via CrunchBaseSocial media tools allow everyone, not just information technology afi ...
April 14, 2009
- Jobs for new lawyers are hard to come by
Image via Wikipedia It's no secret that the job market is in shambles, and the legal jo ...
April 12, 2009
- 10 Reasons for a Law Student to Blog
Image by TW Collins via Flickr 10. Make money fast! Hardly. Blogging may pay the bills for ...
April 11, 2009
- Review of Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake t ...
Breaking the silence about Spring - RealClimate: Did you know that in 1965 the U.S. Depa ...
April 11, 2009
- Information as Property from the Scholarly Kitchen
I found this interesting discussion of IP today: Information, however, has properties that ...
April 11, 2009
- Law, War, and the History of Time
Image by AlaskanLibrarian via FlickrLaw, War, and the History of Time - Balkinization:I've ...
April 10, 2009
- Who Are The Stevens Six?
Image via WikipediaWho Are The Stevens Six? | TPMMuckraker:hese are by and large career p ...
April 10, 2009
- A Misguided Philosophy of Science
PrawfsBlawg: A Misguided Philosophy of Science: During my first year as a economics gradu ...
April 9, 2009
- Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit
Image via WikipediaMicrosoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit - Law Blog - WSJ:In w ...
April 9, 2009
- Consumers and Copyright: Thoughts about reforming the Digita ...
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is much maligned, but, I think, not fully unde ...
April 9, 2009
- Open-access policy flourishes at NIH
Image via WikipediaOpen-access policy flourishes at NIH : Nature News:One year on, advocat ...
April 8, 2009
- Indian Biogenerics on an Upswing
' Image via Wikipedia Patent Baristas » Indian Biogenerics on an Upswing: Indias pharmace ...
April 7, 2009
- Electronic texts and rent-seeking publishers
Frightful Kindle | TPM: Finally, only a few months ago, I purged a decent chunk of my c ...
April 7, 2009
- Bad Results for Google in Recent 2nd Circuit Ruling Over Key ...
Bad Results for Google in Recent 2nd Circuit Ruling Over Keywords - Law Blog - WSJ: In a ...
April 6, 2009
- Will the Internet Replace Universities?
Image by Wonderlane via Flickr Will the Internet Replace Universities? | Cosmic Variance | ...
April 6, 2009
- Who Could Be Hired Today?
Who Could Be Hired Today? (Concurring Opinions): The trend in hiring law professors with ...
April 4, 2009
- Computer Programming and the Law: A New Research Agenda
Image by PanelSwitchman via FlickrComputer Programming and the Law: A New Research Agenda ...
April 3, 2009
- Major extension of Boumediene
Image via Wikipedia Major extension of Boumediene | SCOTUSblog: Judge Bates' decision ult ...
April 2, 2009
- DOJ moves to set aside verdict against ex-senator Ted Steven ...
JURIST - Paper Chase: DOJ moves to set aside verdict against ex-senator Ted Stevens: The U ...
April 2, 2009
- 03/2009
- Strict International Patent Laws Hurt Developing Countries
Strict International Patent Laws Hurt Developing Countries, an article in YaleGlobal from ...
March 22, 2009
- SSRN Papers Dealing with IP, Development and Innovation
Image via WikipediaThe Patent Lottery: Exploiting Behavioral Economics for the Common Good ...
March 22, 2009
- Do Patents Stimulate R&D Investment and Promote Growth?
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Do Patents Stimulate R&D Investment and Promote Growth?: ...
March 22, 2009
- Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud
Image via WikipediaFrom the "keeping up with technology" department comes this: Got an Hou ...
March 22, 2009
- Against Intellectual Monopoly
Against Intellectual Monopoly, a book by by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, two econ ...
March 21, 2009
- Economists: Abolish Copyright & Patents to Save the Econ ...
Economists: Abolish Copyright & Patents to Save the Economy: Two economists from Washi ...
March 15, 2009
- The Volokh Conspiracy - Applying the Fourth Amendment to the ...
Image via Wikipedia The Volokh Conspiracy - Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: ...
March 15, 2009
- Beyond Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property: The Need ...
The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog: Beyond Economic Analysis of Intellectua ...
March 9, 2009
- That Was the Copyright Year That Was (2008)
Image via WikipediaThat Was the Copyright Year That Was by Bruce E. Boyden of Marquette Un ...
March 7, 2009
- Law Librarians, Schools Propose Bold Move to Digital, Open A ...
Law Librarians, Schools Propose Bold Move to Digital, Open Access Alternative - ...
March 5, 2009
- 02/2009
- Amazon retreats on Kindle's text-to-speech issue
Image by Getty Images via DaylifeAmazon retreats on Kindle's text-to-speech issue | Digita ...
February 28, 2009
- Legal Scholarship, Electronic Publishing, and Open Access
Image via WikipediaSSRN-Legal Scholarship, Electronic Publishing, and Open Access: Transfo ...
February 27, 2009
- The Office of Legal Counsel
Image via WikipediaIs the Office of Legal Counsel Constitutional? Some notes on the Americ ...
February 18, 2009
- Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon's Kindle 2
Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon's Kindle 2 | Threat Level from Wired.com: "They don't ...
February 15, 2009
- Science, pseudoscience, and the law
Science, pseudoscience, and the law >> Slaw: Following up on Simon's vacc ...
February 14, 2009
- Reflecting on Darwin
Image via Wikipedia As many are probably aware, the 12th of February was the 200 ...
February 14, 2009
- Making Court Archives Available to All
From the New York Times, "An Effort to Upgrade a Court Archive System to Free and Easy": F ...
February 14, 2009
- Another Attempt to Repeal Open Access
Peter Suber writes: Yesterday Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) re-introduced the Fair Copyright in ...
February 14, 2009
- Cooperative Workers May Not be Fired in Retaliation
From the New York Times: Employees fired after cooperating in sexual harassment investiga ...
February 9, 2009
- The Exclusionary Rule at Risk
A longstanding part of U.S. law, known as the exclusionary rule, is getting bruised. The r ...
February 3, 2009
- 11/2008
- The Long Road to Open Access
An intriguing, far-ranging perspective on scholarly publishing that ties early 3rd century ...
November 23, 2008
- 07/2008
- Why Does the U.S. Have an Exclusionary Rule?
In my view, the fact that criminal procedure rules are judge-made led fairly directly to t ...
July 21, 2008
- Patent Gridlock Suppresses Innovation
The Founders might have used quill pens, but they would roll their eyes at how, in this su ...
July 16, 2008
- Network Tech Locks SF Out of Network
"A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multi ...
July 16, 2008
- Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case
Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case - NYTimes.com: With some derision for the Bush administ ...
July 1, 2008
- 06/2008
- Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Sam Kamin at PrawfsBlawg points out that the New York Times has discovered SSRN. He writes ...
June 11, 2008
- "Universities should not be in the social justice busin ...
This is a quote from Stanley Fish in an editorial in the New York Times, entitled Think Ag ...
June 11, 2008
- 05/2008
- New vs. Old Media
Revision3 CEO: Blackout caused by MediaDefender attack - ars technica: Revision3, the Inte ...
May 30, 2008
- Viacom Ups Ante In YouTube Copyright Spat: Google More Than ...
Viacom Ups Ante In YouTube Copyright Spat: Google More Than A Mere Enabler - washingtonpos ...
May 28, 2008
- Analysis of Same-Sex Marriage Opinion in California
Balkinization - Grading the California same-sex marriage opinion: The C ...
May 19, 2008
- Defense Department Jettisons Charges Against '20th Hija ...
Law Blog - WSJ.com : Defense Department Jettisons Charges Against '20th Hijacker':On the G ...
May 14, 2008
- Copyright's Paradox: a book by Neil Netanel
Neail Netanel writes on The Volokh Conspiracy: The paradox referenced in my book's title i ...
May 13, 2008
- National Security Letters and the Internet Archive
Deven Desai writes in Concurring Opinions: Wired reports that the FBI subpoenaed the Inter ...
May 9, 2008
- Sprint, Clearwire and WiMax
The New York Times writes: A who's who of technology and telecommunications companies anno ...
May 7, 2008
- Judge Posner Skewers Textualism-Originalism (Thomas, Scalia) ...
Judge Posner Skewers Textualism-Originalism (Thomas, Scalia), And Reveals the In ...
May 7, 2008
- F.B.I. Raids Office of Special Counsel - New York Times
F.B.I. Raids Office of Special Counsel - New York Times: The office of the official respon ...
May 6, 2008
- When Law Prevents Righting a Wrong
From an an article in the New York Times: A lawyer's broad duty to keep clients' confidenc ...
May 5, 2008
- Web-based Classroom Tools
From MakeUseOf.com by David Johannes: Online collaboration between schools, teachers, and ...
May 4, 2008
- 04/2008
- Open Source, Open Access, and Open Transfer: Market Approach ...
The Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property has acc ...
April 30, 2008
- The Candidates on Disability
Concurring Opinions - The Candidates on Disability:Having criticized the mainstream media ...
April 23, 2008
- 03/2008
- More Free and Open Source Law Resources
Concurring Opinions - More Free and Open Source Law Resources: Law.com has a good summary ...
March 19, 2008
- Blood Test for African Sleeping Sickness
Wired - Third World Biotech: Blood Test for African Sleeping Sickness: Australian scientis ...
March 5, 2008
- Canada judge rules emergency wiretap law unconstitutional
JURIST - Paper Chase: Canada judge rules emergency wiretap law unconstitutional: British ...
March 4, 2008
- 02/2008
- Australian judge on privacy: Computer code trumps the law
CNET News.com: Judge on privacy: Computer code trumps the law: Australian High Court Judge ...
February 29, 2008
- When you die, become an intellectual property donor.
kottke.org: When you die, become an intellectual property donor.: Why let all of your idea ...
February 27, 2008
- High Court Says No to Wiretapping, Yes to Exclusionary Rule
WSJ.com - High Court Says No to Wiretapping, Yes to Exclusionary Rule: Yesterday, the Supr ...
February 20, 2008
- Freeing America's Operating System
Creative Commons - Freeing America’s Operating System: Last November Carl Malamud's Publ ...
February 15, 2008
- Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law
TorrentFreak - Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law A crucial factor in the ruling is thu ...
February 15, 2008
- Comcast Pledges To Keep Traffic Filters Active
Comcast Pledges To Keep Traffic Filters Active: Comcast, in a reverse effort to Verizon†...
February 15, 2008
- The Public Library of Law
The Public Library of Law: What is the Public Library of Law? Searching the Web is easy. ...
February 15, 2008
- Starbucks ditches T-Mobile for AT&T
Image via Wikipedia Webware - Starbucks ditches T-Mobile for AT&T: Ubiquitous caf ...
February 13, 2008
- Bush Administration Spending More Taxpayer Money On Intellec ...
Techdirt - Bush Administration Spending More Taxpayer Money On Intellectual Property Prose ...
February 13, 2008
- Law Reviews Get a Bad Review
Law Blog - WSJ.com - Law Reviews Get a Bad Review: The institution of law reviews has alwa ...
February 11, 2008
- To bug or not to bug?
Times Online - To bug or not to bug?:Fury and outrage – but not surprise – were the e ...
February 7, 2008
- Lords refuse to continue hearing case against Simon Mann
Times Online - Lords refuse to continue hearing case against Simon Mann:A landmark case co ...
February 7, 2008
- Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo! all join OpenID
Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign and Yahoo! all join OpenID:This morning the OpenID Founda ...
February 7, 2008
- Is Facebook Your "Permanent Record?"
ReadWriteWeb - Is Facebook Your "Permanent Record?":The internet is not like a diary, alth ...
February 4, 2008
- Law lords to rule whether decision to invade Iraq warrants i ...
Guardian - Law lords to rule whether decision to invade Iraq warrants inquiry:Questions ab ...
February 4, 2008
- Should we fight the proprietary open source power?
Open Source | ZDNet.com - Should we fight the proprietary open source power?: Mr. Buzzword ...
February 4, 2008
- Inmate Requests Test Public Records Law
The Associated Press - Inmate Requests Test Public Records Law:An arsonist imprisoned for ...
February 1, 2008
- 01/2008
- Ruling gives boost to millions of carers
Times Online - Ruling gives boost to millions of carers: Millions of people juggling a car ...
January 31, 2008
- Lotto rape case victory opens gates for compensation
From Time Online (UK) - Lotto rape case victory opens gates for compensation: One woman†...
January 30, 2008
- UK High Court Allows Software Patents
Techdirt - UK High Court Follows Bad US Decision To Allow Software Patents: It looks like ...
January 29, 2008
- Copyright Law and Cease-and-Desist Letters
The Volokh Conspiracy has a follow-up to the story about copyrighting cease & desist l ...
January 28, 2008
- Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring
WaPo - Bush Order Expands Network Monitoring:President Bush signed a directive this month ...
January 27, 2008
- What Copyright Law and Plane Crashes Have in Common
Concurring Opinions - What Copyright Law and Plane Crashes Have in Common: As others have ...
January 27, 2008
- Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter
Techdirt: Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter: Back in Octob ...
January 27, 2008
- MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
Wired News - MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study: Hollywood laid much of the blame fo ...
January 23, 2008
- Fair use of copyrighted material benefits US economy: report
JURIST - Paper Chase: Fair use of copyrighted material benefits US economy: report: The C ...
January 21, 2008
- Judge Orders RIAA to Pay Legal Fees to Falsely Accused Lawsu ...
Threat Level from Wired.com - Judge Orders RIAA to Pay Legal Fees to Falsely Accused Lawsu ...
January 19, 2008
- Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might b ...
Balkanization - Why the Interdisciplinary Movement in Legal Academia Might be a Bad Idea ( ...
January 16, 2008
- Who Protects Your Cloud Data?
Web Worker Daily - Who Protects Your Cloud Data?: Yet in a world of imperfect hardware an ...
January 13, 2008
- Three concepts of surveillance in the National Surveillance ...
Balkinization - Three concepts of surveillance in the National Surveillance State: In this ...
January 12, 2008
- Opinion: 10GB of e-mail could cost you $1M
Computerworld Opinion - 10GB of e-mail could cost you $1M: The growing number of e-discove ...
January 12, 2008
- Whose bandwidth is being given away?
NetworkWorld.com Community - Whose bandwidth is being given away? : But it's on the point ...
January 11, 2008
- Steal This Wi-Fi
Wired Security Matters - Steal This Wi-Fi: Whenever I talk or write about my own security ...
January 10, 2008
- FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills
Newsvine - FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills: Telephone companies have c ...
January 10, 2008
- Proof Positive that the Intelligence Oversight System is Hop ...
Balkinization - Proof Positive that the Intelligence Oversight System is Hopelessly Compro ...
January 9, 2008
- Meraki proposes free Wi-Fi network for S.F.
Mountain View's Meraki proposes free Wi-Fi network for S.F.: San Francisco's plan to provi ...
January 5, 2008
- RIAA Behaving Badly; Let's Cut Their Copyright Privileg ...
RIAA Behaving Badly; Let's Cut Their Copyright Privileges - Wolfe's Den Blog - Information ...
January 2, 2008
- The Open Contract
Steve Gillmor's GestureLab - The Open Contract:Â Fred Wilson makes an excellent case for w ...
January 2, 2008
- Do the U.S. News Rankings Matter?
Law Blog - WSJ.com: Do the U.S. News Rankings Matter?: Cameron Stracher's essays on the le ...
January 2, 2008
- Rothman on Custom in Intellectual Property
Legal Theory Blog: Rothman on Custom in Intellectual Property: The treatment of customary ...
January 2, 2008
- Social Networks - Why You Should Care
Slaw: Social Networks - Why You Should Care: How can you leverage emerging knowledge about ...
January 1, 2008
- In the Fight Over Piracy, a Rare Stand for Privacy - New Yor ...
In the Fight Over Piracy, a Rare Stand for Privacy - New York Times: The record industry ...
January 1, 2008
- 11/2007
- No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims
The Register: No email privacy rights under Constitution, US gov claims On October 8, 2007 ...
November 5, 2007
- 10/2007
- Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP
Official Gmail Blog - Sync your inbox across devices with free IMAP:Sync your inbox across ...
October 25, 2007
- Mandate for Public Access to NIH-Funded Research Poised to B ...
ATA - Mandate for Public Access to NIH-Funded Research Poised to Become Law: The U.S. Sena ...
October 24, 2007
- RIAA threatens 19 universities with lawsuits
CNET - RIAA threatens 19 universities with lawsuits:Just in time to welcome many students ...
October 18, 2007
- Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill
Washington Post - Senate and Bush Agree On Terms of Spying Bill:Senate Democrats and Repub ...
October 18, 2007
- Judge Mukasey is Agnostic on Whether Waterboarding is Lawful
Balkinization - Judge Mukasey is Agnostic on Whether Waterboarding is Lawful:Just now, in ...
October 18, 2007
- Cheney's Law
PBS FRONTLINE - Cheney's Law:For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secr ...
October 18, 2007
- On the Supreme Court, the Federal Circuit, and Patent Law
Michigan Law Review - An Online Symposium on the Supreme Court, the Fed ...
October 17, 2007
- Verizon offers details on records releases
CNN - Verizon offers details on records releases: Verizon Communications says it has provi ...
October 17, 2007
- Questions for the A.G. Nominee
New York Times - Questions of Justice: Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush’s nominee for ...
October 17, 2007
- Hundreds of New Documents Reveal Expanded Military Role in D ...
American Civil Liberties Union - Hundreds of New Documents Reveal Expanded Military Role i ...
October 16, 2007
- Comcast Charges $1K for a FISA Wiretap
Secrecy News - Implementing Domestic Intelligence Surveillance: Upon lawful request and fo ...
October 16, 2007
- EFF Documents Detail Pentagon Demands for Financial Records
Electronic Frontier Foundation - EFF Documents Detail Pentagon Demands for Financial Recor ...
October 16, 2007
- FCC Considers New Technology Mandates, Threatening Innovatio ...
CDT - FCC Considers New Technology Mandates, Threatening Innovation and Privacy:The Federa ...
October 16, 2007
- An Interesting Peek Into a Lawyer's Withdrawal From a Case
WSJ Law Blog - An Interesting Peek Into a Lawyer's Withdrawal From a Case: It's not too o ...
October 16, 2007
- Should AT&T be held legally responsible for any NSA coop ...
The Iconoclast - CNET News.com - Should AT&T be held legally responsible for any NSA c ...
October 12, 2007
- Will Starbucks Wi-Fi soon be free?
Computerworld - Prediction: Starbucks Wi-Fi will soon be free: When Starbucks introduced f ...
October 11, 2007
- How to say no to the President? (Medellin v. Texas)
SCOTUSblog - How to say no to the President?The Supreme Court, deeply fascinated with its ...
October 11, 2007
October 9, 2007
- Licensing of Child Location Services Bill
Spy Blog - Licensing of Child Location Services Bill—does it also apply to tracking ...
October 8, 2007
- Companies Pitch Flextime as Macho
An older article from December of 2006, but an interesting look at what some large firms a ...
October 7, 2007
- Should we study Kelsen?
Quite honestly, I had never heard of Kelsen before. Perhaps this is unsurprising, consider ...
October 6, 2007
- Tinkering with Billable-Hour Requirements
WSJ Law Blog - Tinkering with Billable-Hour Requirements:In the perpetual race to recruit ...
October 4, 2007
- ACLU appeals domestic wiretap challenge to US Supreme Court
JURIST - ACLU appeals domestic wiretap challenge to US Supreme Court:The American Civil Li ...
October 4, 2007
- Is the Golden Age of Patent Litigation Coming To an End?
WSJ Law Blog - Is the Golden Age of Patent Litigation Coming To an End?That's the weighty ...
October 2, 2007
- EEOC Accuses Bloomberg LP Of Flunking Pregnancy Test
WSJ Law Blog - EEOC Accuses Bloomberg LP Of Flunking Pregnancy Test: Bloomberg, the media ...
October 1, 2007
- 09/2007
- CanLII - Canadian Legal Information Institute
I am very impressed by CanLII - Canadian Legal Information Institute search service: "CanL ...
September 30, 2007
- The Right to Bear Ar--, Or Is It Access the Internet?
The Right to Bear Ar--, Or Is It Access the Internet?:All of these events make we wonder ...
September 29, 2007
- Fewer women are seeking law degrees
NLJ - Fewer women are seeking law degrees : Now an analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York, ...
September 28, 2007
- Why the Verizon/NARAL flap matters
Susan Crawford blog - The big picture: Why the Verizon/NARAL flap matters: We have to deci ...
September 28, 2007
- Judge Rules Parts Of Patriot Act Unconstitutional
cbs5.com - Judge Rules Parts Of Patriot Act Unconstitutional:(AP) PORTLAND, Ore. A federal ...
September 27, 2007
- Justice Dept.'s warrantless eavesdropping rejected
Justice Dept.'s warrantless eavesdropping rejected:The U.S. Department of Justice asserts ...
September 27, 2007
- DOJ cuts off Guantanamo lawyer access after federal court ru ...
JURIST - DOJ cuts off Guantanamo lawyer access after federal court ruling:A US Department ...
September 23, 2007
- Software Freedom Law Center Files GPL Lawsuit
On Behalf of BusyBox Developers, SFLC Files First Ever U.S. GPL Violation Lawsuit: The So ...
September 21, 2007
- Surveillance Law Must Protect Privacy and Security - Testimo ...
Surveillance Law Must Protect Privacy and Security - Testimony:Congress can enact legislat ...
September 19, 2007
- So Why Hasn't Critical Theory Worked in Law?
I wondered previously why critical theory approaches (like the much-criticized Critical Le ...
September 16, 2007
- Useful Introductions to Theory
The "Introductory Guide to Critical Theory" (which I extract from and link to below, along ...
September 15, 2007
- The UC Irvine Fiasco
Belle Lettre writes:Prominent constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky (Duke) was hired to ...
September 15, 2007
- The RIAA Meets Civil Procedure
Recording Industry vs The People: In May of this year, the United States Supreme Court cam ...
September 14, 2007
- Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere?
Is the Future of Legal Scholarship in the Blogosphere? by Margaret A. Schilt in Legal Tim ...
September 12, 2007
- Need a Research Topic?
Announcing ACS ResearchLink: Connecting Law Students and Lawyers Committed to Justice | Am ...
September 11, 2007
- Does the "Other Party" on a Wiretapped Line Have A ...
So when the government is targeting a person's communications, what rights does the person ...
September 9, 2007
- Now Part of Meraki's Free the Net SF
I've just received my free Meraki Mini, and put it in my window. Now my neighbors should b ...
September 9, 2007
- Judge Voids Part of Patriot Act
A federal judge yesterday struck down the parts of the recently revised USA Patriot Act th ...
September 7, 2007
- Patent Reform
An update on patent reform legislation working its way through Congress right now. An inte ...
September 7, 2007
- Theory v. Practice in Law School Education
PrawfsBlawg: The Balance Between Theory & Practice: Recently, the balance between theo ...
September 6, 2007
- Federal judge slams government response to FOIA requests on ...
JURIST - Paper Chase: Federal judge slams government response to FOIA requests on surveill ...
September 6, 2007
- 08/2007
- Earthlink Escapes Contract for Free San Francisco Wifi
EarthLink said late Wednesday that it is bailing out of a contract to build San Francisco' ...
August 30, 2007
- What is the law school curriculum intended to achieve?
From PrawfsBlog: There are several schools of thought about what the first year of law sch ...
August 28, 2007
- Justice Not Blind Blog
A new blog I found recently (via BlogCatalog), focusing on law and the use of technology i ...
August 26, 2007
- Optimal Copyright Law Length is 14 Years
To get back in the spirit of posting, I'd like to note the following story, via Irish law ...
August 26, 2007
- Back to my second year of law school
I'm now in my second-year of law school, and fortunately I've managed to enroll mostly in ...
August 26, 2007
- Clearwire Wireless Broadband Review
Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR) is a broadband Internet Service Provider with a twist: it's wire ...
August 26, 2007
- 9 Myths of Work/Life Balance in Law
PAR's Mythbusters provides hard data to bust nine key myths about work/life balance in the ...
August 9, 2007
- 07/2007
- Family-Leave Values
The New York Times has an excellent article in today's paper, written by Eyal Pr ...
July 29, 2007
- 5 Steps to Take After a Data Center Failure
In the aftermath of the 365Main data center power failure, it's important to think about w ...
July 25, 2007
- Why are lawyers miserable: want a list? - Times Online
Why are lawyers miserable: want a list? - Times Online: the dehumanising hours. the ya ...
July 18, 2007
- Help the EFF analyze FBI documents
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation: We've already started scouring newly-released doc ...
July 12, 2007
- Why Provide Free WiFi?
Image by workshifting via Flickr Why should hotels, cafes, and other service-oriented ...
July 12, 2007
- Reporting on the Supreme Court
SCOTUSblog has an interesting write-up about a C-SPAN program dealing with the challenges ...
July 12, 2007
- Res ipsa loquitur
If you've ever taken a Torts class, and wanted a better example of res ipsa loquitur ("the ...
July 10, 2007
- My Top Ten General Legal Research Sites for U.S. Law
10. Wikipedia A collaborative electronic encyclopedia, editable (in theory) by anyone. Sou ...
July 9, 2007
- Is it OK to Share my WiFi? (Clearwire)
With the growth of wireless Internet and various sharing services, the question arises: is ...
July 8, 2007
- 6th Circuit Dismisses One Case Against NSA Surveillance
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals "ducks" the issues by dismissing on a technical ground (l ...
July 6, 2007
- The Changing Role of Lawyers
In a post entitled "The new legal physics," Susan Crawford writes: When I went to law scho ...
July 4, 2007
- A Little Legal Humor
From Power of Attorneys: Civil law - Wikipedia Quirky American derivation of Roman law wh ...
July 4, 2007
- The Start of Summer Law in Hawaii
Today was my first day of summer law classes in Hawaii: Professional Responsibility: ethi ...
July 3, 2007
- 13 Things I Learned in My First Year of Law School
13. This list is not exclusive. 12. Everyone talks about the "real world," but ...
July 1, 2007
- Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Hawaii
For my "professional responsibility" class here in Hawai'i during the summer, my class is ...
July 1, 2007
- 06/2007
- Zotero Gets More Legal
Zotero, the Firefox extension for managing research and citations, has expanded support fo ...
June 29, 2007
- Freedom of Speech in the United States
An excellent library of court decisions related to free speech in the United States, compi ...
June 28, 2007
- OpenDNS
I have been using OpenDNS for quite a while now to increase the reliability and speed o ...
June 27, 2007
- Search Warrants Required for Email (Maybe)
Freedom to Tinker notes: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday, in Warshak v. ...
June 27, 2007
- CIA and the Freedom of Information Act
The CIA has established this site to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA ...
June 27, 2007
- Update to Domain Name Change
It looks like the domain name change has finally "taken." Hopefully most things have been ...
June 19, 2007
- Domain Name Change
in propria persona is moving from my domain (ekris.org) to its own home at http://www.inpr ...
June 10, 2007
- 14 Ways to Speed Up Your Site
From Steve Souders, author of High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-En ...
June 10, 2007
- Free Web Stats Evaluation
I am evaluating a variety of free statistics providers at the moment. If in propria person ...
June 9, 2007
- On Intellectual Property
Image via Wikipedia Lawrence Lessig writes: Physical property and the intangible pro ...
June 8, 2007
- "Webs of Significance," Clifford Geertz
Cover of The Interpretation of Cultures An individual is bound up in a series of symbol ...
June 8, 2007
- Is it OK to Share my WiFi? (Comcast)
So, with the growth of FON and Whisher, not to mention more informal sharing between nei ...
June 4, 2007
- Two Approaches to Community WiFi Sharing
Two different, broad-based approaches to community-based WiFi sharing: Whisher You don't ...
June 3, 2007
- FISA/CALEA and "Lawful Intercept" Technologies
As I noted earlier, May 14th was the official deadline for CALEA compliance for a number o ...
June 1, 2007
- 05/2007
- Tim Wu, "On Copyright's Authorship Policy"
Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School, has an intriguing paper available entitled, "On ...
May 31, 2007
- Blog Redesign
in propria persona has been on temporary hiatus for a week or two while I finished finals ...
May 28, 2007
- My Top 10 Free Blogging Tools
1. ZoneEdit Without ZoneEdit, I wouldn't have a custom domain... they provide the DNS host ...
May 18, 2007
- YouTube as a PR Outlet
The Flack posts an insightful look into the use of YouTube for PR battles in article entit ...
May 18, 2007
- Jurisdiction and the Internet: CivPro meets the Web
Brett Trout (of Blawg IT) writes in "Internet Jurisdiction: Win the Battle, Win the War": ...
May 17, 2007
- Meraki "Free the Network" San Francisco Project Gr ...
We've been busy meeting volunteers, installing Meraki Mini repeaters, and arranging for M ...
May 14, 2007
- "NFL fumbles DMCA takedown battle, could face sanctions ...
It's no secret that some content owners don't seem to understand how the DMCA works--that, ...
May 13, 2007
- Reminder: Monday is Wiretap the Internet Day
Kevin Poulsen notes on Threat Level - Wired Blogs that May 14th is the official deadline f ...
May 13, 2007
- Top 10 Steps to Make the U.S. House More Open
The Open House Project is working to open up the U.S. House to new technologies of Web-bas ...
May 13, 2007
- Simple, Elegent and Useful Ajax Code
Billed as a "showroom of nice looking simple downloadable dhtml and ajax code," MiniAjax.c ...
May 12, 2007
- Top Macintosh Utilities
From Lifehacker comes a list of Top 10 Macintosh utilities: It's not always the full-blow ...
May 12, 2007
- Followup on digg.com, AACS, and "laws for bloggers" ...
In an interesting article entitled "Digg This?: What Laws Must We Obey?" at "The Faculty B ...
May 10, 2007
- Done with Criminal Law, on to Contracts and Immigration
As my Criminal Law exam is now over, I am now focusing on updating my Contracts materials ...
May 10, 2007
- "Unconstitutional laws still on books cause confusion i ...
From AP/Newsday.com: Numerous state laws that have been struck down as unconstitutional a ...
May 7, 2007
- Laws for Bloggers
Laws apply to bloggers too. Resources that help make rights and responsibilities clear are ...
May 5, 2007
- AACS
In an attempt to capture some of the current AACS (Advanced Access Content System, copy-re ...
May 4, 2007
- Done with Civil Procedure, on to Criminal Law
As my Civil Procedure exam is now over, I am now focusing on updating my Criminal Law mate ...
May 4, 2007
- 04/2007
- Notes from Law School
I've begun to slowly add my notes, discussions, and reference materials from some of my la ...
April 28, 2007
- Open Access, Or, Why Have an Institutional Repository?
For the past decade or so, a number of scientists have argued that the World Wide Web offe ...
April 25, 2007
- Institutional Repositories: Who is Using What?
There are two main, freely available software packages that seem to be used to maintain in ...
April 25, 2007
- Judge Upholds Award of Attorneys' Fees Against RIAA
So far, the RIAA has sued over 18,000 individuals for allegedly sharing music over the Int ...
April 25, 2007
- 18 U.S.C. § 2709. Counterintelligence access to telephone to ...
Interestingly, "remote computing services" are not mentioned in this section. Instead, onl ...
April 22, 2007
- 18 U.S.C. § 2703. Required disclosure of customer communicat ...
As in 18 U.S.C. § 2702, both electronic communication services and remote computing servic ...
April 22, 2007
- 18 U.S.C. § 2702. Voluntary disclosure of customer communica ...
In contrast to Section 2701, Section 2702 does clearly include prohibitions on disclosure ...
April 22, 2007
- 18 U.S.C. § 2701. Unlawful access to stored communications ( ...
A plain-meaning interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 2701 ("Unlawful access to stored communicati ...
April 22, 2007
- Electronic Communication Services (Part III)
Electronic bulletin boards also fall within the realm of "electronic communication service ...
April 22, 2007
- Remote Computing Services (Part II)
he term "remote computing service" is defined in the ECPA as "the provision to the public ...
April 22, 2007
- Electronic Communication Services vs. Remote Computing Servi ...
In Konop v. Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., 302 F.3d 868, 875 (9th Cir. 2002), the Ninth Circuit ...
April 22, 2007
- Legal Issues with Institutional Repositories
I am just beginning to delve into legal issues related to institutional repositories. See ...
April 19, 2007
- UC Hastings Law School Evacuated
The events in Virgina seep across the continent: From: Dean Nell Newton Re: Security Thr ...
April 18, 2007
- The Power of Gifts to Transform and Connect
The notion of a "gift economy" is an interesting one that brings the idea of non ...
April 4, 2007
- EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
But here's the important part: None of this should stop you from blogging. Freedom of spe ...
April 3, 2007
- Legal Impossibility in Sherlock Holmes
It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fa ...
April 2, 2007
- 03/2007
- Katz and Berger and a "Reasonable Expectation of Privac ...
Question: Do Katz and Berger support the concept that a "reasonable expectation of privacy ...
March 28, 2007
- Gaps Between Teaching and Skills in Law
A large majority of lawyers perceive critical gaps between what they are taught in law sch ...
March 27, 2007
- Reasonable Expectations of Privacy in Civilian and Military ...
United States v. Long, 64 M.J. 57 (2006) Appellee was charged with unlawful drug use viol ...
March 26, 2007
- Deference to Congress' Findings
To defer to Congress without sufficient review would ignore the Supreme Court's constituti ...
March 25, 2007
- The Particularity of Paratext
It is important to realize that paratext and other codes and signs in the work do not mere ...
March 25, 2007
- New Jersey and the Right to Privacy
he right to privacy of New Jersey citizens under our State Constitution has been expanded ...
March 25, 2007
- Search & Seizure of Stored Email
Can the government conduct secret, warrantless searches and seizures of email stored with ...
March 22, 2007
- Wifi-based Location Determination
A new method of computer-based tracking has recently emerged: wifi. A company has been sen ...
March 21, 2007
- Gifts Bespeak Relationships
One of the specific narrative methods of establishing community, of creating and maintaini ...
March 21, 2007
- Balance and the 4th Amendment
A fundamental point of contention in a democratic society is the need to balance the enfor ...
March 21, 2007
- Prefaces, Prologues and Paratext
A preface or prologue is a sort of pretext to the writing that follows it; it sets up the ...
March 21, 2007
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- 03/2005
- \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM
So what do you do when your wife's computer says this? Windows XP could not start because ...
March 8, 2005
- Computer Science Professors' Brief in Grokster
Amici write to call to the Court's attention several computer science issues raised by Pet ...
March 6, 2005
- Culture as a Map
It is significant that "culture" is sometimes described as a map; it is the analogy which ...
March 4, 2005
- U.S. bans juvenile executions
It's nice to join the international community on occasion: Supreme Court Abolishes Juvenil ...
March 2, 2005