I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
Prof. Lessig’s essay in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal is available here. One thing that caught my eye was an anonymous reader’s comment, containing the follow…
Each day the stock markets trend lower, seeking floors, comfort. A sense of how bad it could get leads to further erosions of global equity values and banks un…
David Brooks in today's NYT: "money was entrusted to a few thousand traders who sloshed it around the world in search of the highest returns... These…
After both the state and federal courts rejected the attempts of Yoko Ono Lennon and EMI Records to enjoin the showing of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed on t…
Jonathan Glater in the NYT Business Section this morning: "Corporate executives routinely sing the praises of arbitration clauses, the language buried in t…
Jacques Berlinerblau in the Washington Post's On Faith section: "Maher, a talented stand-up performer, is simply not skilled at, or comfortable with, r…
As Jennifer Granick noted noted in April, the Ninth Circuit has held that government agents need not have reasonable suspicion in order to search laptops or oth…
Mark Britton of Avvo has added me to this meme to post about my favorite non-law blogs... Here they are (in not particular order!): 43 Folders - helps me keep…
Jonathan M. Gitlin on Ars Technica: "We like to think that people will be well informed before making important decisions, such as who to vote for, but the…
There's an interesting subtext to some of the recent developments in the presidential election: the centrality of respect. I've long thought that one o…
Worth it just for the graphic. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government a…
At the risk of making this blog look like merely another distribution channel for his column, David Brooks in today's NYT: "...this individualist descr…