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…
I've wanted to post some thoughts arising from Larissa MacFarquhar's article on Obama ever since it came out in the May 7 New Yorker. It offers some pa…
Let me clarify: '102(b)' refer to a portion the US statute for patentability of inventions, and '401(k)' refers to the ubiquitous retirement ac…
Adam Cohen in yesterday's Times: "Given how intent the president is on expanding his authority, it is startling to recall how the Constitution’s framer…
I found this piece by Mohsin Hamid in the Washington Post over the weekend particularly insightful (not only because it begins with a focus on my hometown.) An…
CIS fellow and newly-arrived Tulane law professor Elizabeth Townsend Gard was profiled recently as an innovator in the legal education field, and specifically f…
...he comes back and says something nuanced: "...most political and social disputes grow out of differing theories about the self, and I find Hofstadter’s…
Carl Hulse in today's New York Times: "...the clash between the two veteran senators is evidence of a larger breakdown in relations in the Senate, a de…
After much wrestling with my past chagrin at being the disappointed early-adopter, I broke down yesterday and got my iPhone. It's wonderful.…
I'm in the process of completing an article that discusses whether and to what extent Muslim-Americans have altered their use of the Internet, after the 9/1…
This funny music video (sung to the tune of "My Way") and featuring David Pogue's views on the iPhone, just made my morning. I think I now must go…
In May, BT secured a complete victory over Plaintiffs Ralph Vargas and Bland-Ricky Roberts when the court granted his summary judgment motion and dismissed Plai…
Some good news today on the Net Radio front: SoundExchange offers temporary reprieve on 'Net radio royalty increase Net Radio Wins Partial Reprieve as Roy…