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The Changing Role of Lawyers
In a post entitled “The new legal physics,” Susan Crawford writes: When I went to law school, I had the sense that we all pretty much knew what the role of lawyers was. This view was such an essential part of the legal landscape that we took it for granted, much as we take for […]
July 2007 / 3 min.
A Little Legal Humor
From Power of Attorneys: Civil law - Wikipedia Quirky American derivation of Roman law wherein lawyers and judges routinely manipulate a written collection of laws that apply to everyone but the lawyers and judges themselves, who are exempt from observance of said laws; practiced by uncivil lawyers in an uncivil environment and administered by uncivil […]
July 2007 / 1 min.
The Start of Summer Law in Hawaii
Today was my first day of summer law classes in Hawaii: Professional Responsibility: ethics and rules for lawyers. Should be simple, but the rules are far from common sense. The simplest rule: never lie. The more complex areas appear to revolve around zealous client representation, conflict of interest, and how to handle multiple clients (such […]
July 2007 / 1 min.
13 Things I Learned in My First Year of Law School
- This list is not exclusive. 12. Everyone talks about the “real world,” but no one can quite articulate what that means. 11. Everyone agrees that one exam at the end of a semester is pedagogically unsound, and bears little resemblance to the above-mentioned “real world,” but no one does anything about it. 10. If […]
July 2007 / 1 min.
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility in Hawaii
For my “professional responsibility” class here in Hawai’i during the summer, my class is reading Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, And Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust: the Bishop Estate in Hawai’i. So far, the bookaEUR”jointly written by our professor, Randall RothaEUR”provides an excellent historical background on Hawai’i, its native peoples, and its politics, something […]
July 2007 / 1 min.
Zotero Gets More Legal
Zotero, the Firefox extension for managing research and citations, has expanded support for legal materials: We are excited to announce a set of seven new translators of particular interest to those who study law. Zotero users can now automatically capture Supreme Court decisions, patents, and laws and regulations. We would like to thank Bill McKinney […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
Freedom of Speech in the United States
An excellent library of court decisions related to free speech in the United States, compiled as part of a book, Freedom Of Speech In The United States, by Dale A. Herbeck and Thomas L. Tedford. Covers historical development in England, including the Magna Carta and John Stuart Mill, then moves onto modern controversies such as […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
Search Warrants Required for Email (Maybe)
Freedom to Tinker notes: The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday, in Warshak v. U.S., that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their email, so that the government needs a search warrant or similar process to access it. The Court’s decision was swayed by amicus briefs submitted by EFF and a group […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
CIA and the Freedom of Information Act
The CIA has established this site to provide the public with an overview of access to CIA information, including electronic access to previously released documents. Because of CIA’s need to comply with the national security laws of the United States, some documents or parts of documents cannot be released to the public. In particular, the […]
June 2007 / 1 min.
On Intellectual Property
Image via Wikipedia Lawrence Lessig writes: Physical property and the intangible property we call copyright are different. Jefferson pointed to one difference. But the really crucial difference that I’ve been trying to get people to see is that physical property systems have a host of techniques to assure that the property system is efficient. Copyright […]
June 2007 / 3 min.