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…
A trademark Brooks turnaround in today's column: "...big gaps in educational attainment are present at age 5. Some children are bathed in an atmosphere…
I have just completed the draft of my extended study on copyright law, where I examine issues of access, access to information and digital copyright law. At bot…
David Brooks in Friday's Times: "Obama’s tone was serious. But he pulled out his “this is our moment” rhetoric and offered visions of a world transform…
The Center for Internet and Society is now accepting applications for the 2008-2009 Non- Residential Fellowship Program. CIS Non-Residential Fellows work indep…
Jeff Goldfien in the ADRNC Newsletter: "I was struck by a statement by Senator Obama, reported in the press yesterday, responding to an accusation by conse…
From Elizabeth Gudrais' cover story in Harvard Magazine (hat tip to Minh): "The United States is becoming even more unequal as income becomes more conc…
J.B. White, my former professor, has written a powerful essay (pages 98-103) on the evils of reducing the human experience to mere economics. Here is an excerp…
Roy Baumeister in Psychology Today: "Economists think that if people were true to financial logic, they would act more like monkeys..." "Keith C…
The CIS team tied for third place against Berkeley's Law and Technology Group at EFF's 18th Birthday Celebration/Pub Trivia night.…
David Brooks in today's New York Times: "Studies designed to link specific genes to behavior have failed to find anything larger than very small associ…
It’s official: Wired Magazine has placed worrying about privacy on Gmail in the final column marked “expired.” (What’s “wired”? Worrying about privacy on Goog…
With increased interest in global warming, green building and ecologically friendly behaviors, I initially observed that there was fairly little chatter concern…