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 has an OP-ED in the NYT today about the orphan works bill rolling now in Congress. Among the important points mentioned there, here are my three fa…
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John Degen, a Canadian novelist, has a thoughtful post on how he has resolved to make his latest novel, The Uninvited Guest, freely available for download onlin…
Today we filed our oppositions to the preliminary injunction motions filed by Yoko Ono Lennon (federal case) and EMI Records (state case). They are attached be…
In spring 2007 I taught a class on Digital Identity in the STS Progam at UT Austin. Please find my syllabus attached below. I'd be very thankful for comment…
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a controversial film about a contentious issue: whether proponents of intelligent design are being unfairly silenced in ac…
David Hoffman in the 5/12 Christian Science Monitor: "When Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer met with Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang earlier this month, what kept them fro…
Was March National Privacy Month and no one told me? (October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, so don't try to hack anything.) In addition to a…
Allrise.com: a community justice site... a couple people (Sanjana was first, John Muller was second) sent me this link after Michael Arrington profiled it on hi…
As the many thousands of loyal readers of this blog know, I eat far better than I deserve to, totally as a result of my betrothal to my beloved, the food writer…
A colleague and I were just discussing a new international working group, chaired by the FBI, which has “band[ed] together to fight cyber crime in a synergistic…
Transcripts attached below of oral and written testimony by Assistant Professor Barbara van Schewick at the 4/17 FCC Hearing. van Schewick FCC Oral Testimony A…