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…
Oy vey. I've been asked to speak at some conferences coming up, and I'm also considering attending some other conferences, and I'm now looking at my…
Gregory A. Presnell, the US District Judge who had the thankless job of refereeing this discovery dispute, has a great solution to deciding the disputed locatio…
Today is election day in California. Please go out and VOTE! If you're not sure who/what to vote for, review these resources: Jennifer Granick's trusty…
I went to see Al Gore's documentary/speech film, "An Inconvenient Truth," today. I recommend it highly, not only because it clearly and concisely…
You all probably know this, but someone alerted me to an interesting footnote of the SCOTUS EFF postion. >This theory appears to conflate two quite differen…
I’m sure I wasn’t the only person in the world who noted the irony in the recent furor over John McCain’s address at the New School graduation. McCain delivers…
The Appeals court issued its ruling today in Apple v. Does. The Court held that the Stored Communications Act prevents Apple from requesting the emails from th…
David Larson invited me to do a short presentation to his class at Hamline this afternoon, and it was fun to chat. We did the video over MSN Messenger, which k…
I have to write again about the group of good people over at GOOD MAGAZINE. I just read their fancy press kit. Not only does it make me want the magazine, it ma…
This semester I gave the 33 students in my legal research and writing course (1Ls at Golden Gate U.) a fair use questions for their main project. They needed to…
I had the pleasure of speaking at the Association for Recorded Sound Collections' conference in Seattle on Friday. In my discussion, about the state of cop…
An Inconvenient Truth. This film is going to change the way we talk and think about the climate crisis and global warming. Please support it by going to see it…