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…
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…
From Obama's speech on race in America that he delivered today: "For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division,…
A few years ago, my friend Peter Adler hosted a meeting on Capitol Hill entitled "Political Courage and the Power of Bridge-Building" that involved so…
Michael S. Malone on the ABC News website: "So, what do I think these stories have in common? They beautifully capture just how the nature of companies has…
An ongoing project reviews patent claim construction orders adding the salient features into a thesaurus of claim constructions. Additionally, I characterize t…
I attended the Sexual Privacy On Line panel at SXSW yesterday. Violet Blue moderated with panelists Jonathan Moore, Zoe Margolis, John D’Addario, and Jason Schu…
The Court has put this case on the proverbial fast track by combining the hearing on the preliminary injunction motion filed by Ms. Rowling and Warner Brothers…