On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
Just as I started to consider IP aspects of the green wave, I stumbled upon the href="http://www.wbcsd.org/templates/TemplateWBCSD5/layout.asp?type=p&M…
I received some inquiries about what have I been up to lately. First of all I am teaching an introduction to Science and Technology Studies at UT Austin and jus…
The Guardian's Jemima Kiss reports that a record settlement has been awarded in an internet libel case: "A social housing firm and its owner have be…
Johnny Symon's compelling critique of the military's "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy, Ask Not, is premiering at the San Francisco Intern…
Ask Not is a rare and compelling exploration of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. The film exposes the tangled political battles that led to t…
A New Hampshire District Court has ruled that two state IP law claims - a right of publicity claim and a false designation of origin claim - are not preempted b…
Randy Cohen, the NYT Magazine Ethicist, today: " The gynecologist I’ve seen for seven years has begun requiring patients to waive their right to a day in…
Very interesting post from Paul Graham: "The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets rea…
Sean Wilsey, reviewing Service Included by Phoebe Domrosch, in the New York Times Book Review: "Depending on your constitution you will revel or recoil at…
...he wrote it himself. No advisors, no speechwriters, no crib notes. Amazing.…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obama-race-speech-reactio_n_92121.html Andrew Sullivan: "But I do want to say that this searing, nuanced, gut-wre…
In June, I am moving to the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich, Switzerland. We have several vacancies for doctoral students (law and…