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Google+Image by maveric2003 via Flickr As long as I’m following the lead of Lawrence Solum at the Legal Theory Blog, I want to recommend the following new article: Judicial Analysis of Complex & Cutting-Edge Science in the Daubert Era: Epidemiologic … Continued
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Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls
Study: Employees Will Find Ways to Route Around Corporate Firewalls – ReadWriteWeb: The study also found that users will go to great lengths to route around corporate networks and often use tools like Gbridge, encrypted tunneling applications, and various private … Continued
An Evidence-Based Approach to Law and Science
John Pfaff has been writing a series of articles for PrawfsBlawg over the last month or so, focusing on “Empirical Legal Scholarship” (ELS). ELS brings empirical social science research, including especially statistical studies, into the realm of the law. (Law … Continued
NIH Open Access Continues to be Attacked
Image via Wikipedia Marketplace: Publicly funded research for a price: Publicly funded research doesn’t seem so public when the public has to pay to read the results in a journal. A proposed law would help publishing companies preserve their business … Continued
Lawyers and Technology: The Mystery of Metadata
Image by StarrGazr via Flickr Jim Calloway writes about a new opinion by the New Hampshire Bar Ethics Committee: The New Hampshire Bar Association issued Ethics Committee Opinion 2008-2009/4 on April 16, 2009. I’ve written at length on this subject … Continued
Open-Access Law
Image via Wikipedia The Lawyers Weekly (of Canada) writes about free vs. paid online legal research tools: Cost-conscious lawyers may ask themselves: Can we get by using only freely available research tools? Chances are, the answer today is no. But … Continued
Social media for law students (and everyone else)
Image via CrunchBase Social media tools allow everyone, not just information technology aficionados, to create and maintain their online professional persona. They have become key tools as online research has become ubiquitous. Using Google to look up potential new hires … Continued
Review of Early Spring: An Ecologist and Her Children Wake to a Warming World
Breaking the silence about Spring – RealClimate: Did you know that in 1965 the U.S. Department of Agriculture planted a particular variety of lilac in more than seventy locations around the U.S. Northeast, to detect the onset of spring – … Continued
A Misguided Philosophy of Science
PrawfsBlawg: A Misguided Philosophy of Science: During my first year as a economics graduate student, I spent at most two minutes thinking about the philosophy behind empirical work. On the first day of my year-long econometrics sequence, our professor quickly … Continued
Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit
Image via Wikipedia Microsoft Gets Slammed in Yet Another Patent Suit – Law Blog – WSJ: In what’s being billed as the fifth-largest patent award in history—and the second largest this year—a federal jury in Rhode Island on Wednesday ordered … Continued
Electronic texts and rent-seeking publishers
Frightful Kindle | TPM: Finally, only a few months ago, I purged a decent chunk of my collection. And most are now in storage. But in our living room we have two big inset shelves where I keep all the … Continued
Bad Results for Google in Recent 2nd Circuit Ruling Over Keywords
Bad Results for Google in Recent 2nd Circuit Ruling Over Keywords – Law Blog – WSJ: In an opinion penned by Judge Pierre Leval, a three-judge panel ruled that Google must face a trademark infringement lawsuit for selling keywords that … Continued
Will the Internet Replace Universities?
Image by Wonderlane via Flickr Will the Internet Replace Universities? | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine: Via Brad DeLong, an article by Kevin Carey in the Chronicle of Higher Education starts with the obvious — the Internet is killing newspapers … Continued
Do Patents Stimulate R&D Investment and Promote Growth?
Patent Law Blog (Patently-O): Do Patents Stimulate R&D Investment and Promote Growth?: As background material, this post reviews the sizable body of empirical research analyzing the impact of patents on R&D investment and economic growth. Three future posts will present … Continued
Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud
Image via Wikipedia From the “keeping up with technology” department comes this: Got an Hour? Create a Server in the Cloud – ReadWriteWeb: Dave Winer yesterday announced EC2 for Poets, a step-by-step guide to help you create a server on … Continued
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Against Intellectual Monopoly, a book by by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine, two economists who have proposed abolishing copyrights and patents: It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for … Continued
