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…
You may be interested in this conference. I am on the Board of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and will be at the event. _______ CPSR…
The cover story in the Arts & Leisure section of the Sunday New York Times is about the rising "tsunami of self-expression" that has flooded the w…
a piece by Ron Stodghill in yesterday's New York Times: "The mold dispute is the latest salvo in what, according to New York housing officials, is one…
With a busy schedule of flying place to place and a child on the way, my radio schedule for Hearsay Culture (see here for more info on the show) has been in a s…
Thomas B. Edsall in the Times on Dec. 5th: "After 40 years of ascendancy, the G.O.P. has provided Democrats with an opening. Will the Democratic Party, of…
Richard Cohen in the Post on Tuesday: "Washington is a bad marriage with monuments. Just to get through the day, it's necessary to lower voices, modul…
From Bill Frist's resignation speech that he delivered on the floor of the Senate yesterday: "...we are moving toward a body that has too much of a tw…
Motivated by the talk of a few weeks ago, I looked at the patent litigation data in my IP Litigation database to see whether the duration of litigation conforme…
Universal Music has begun to go after user-generated content sites in a big way. In October, Universal sued video-sharing sites Bolt and Grouper, alleging that…
Rob Welch, author of Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, interviewed me recently about the Podcasting Legal Guide and my forthcoming podcast series that will addr…
The website for the workshop 'Governmediality of Work, Welfare, and the Life Course'at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study Delmenhorst, Germany Dec 7…
This post is to update everyone on the progress of the litigation between Carol Shloss and the Estate of the late literary genius, James Joyce. As this Website…