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…
So as I was working on my article on business method patents (spoiler: they're bad), I was inserting a brief discussion of the recent Ex rel Lundgren decisi…
Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1963. Where are the American heroes of today? From his speech "The…
CIS will host The Peer to Patent Project this semester for a meeting on HCI and the Design of Community Patent.…
Submit your story. We are looking for stories about how cell phone locking is affecting consumers and the public interest. Do you have a story about how lockin…
Mark Lemely, Doug Lichtman, and Bhaven Sampat have a sensible proposal in the winter issue of Regulation. They start with the well-known fact that most patents…
SUMMER INTERNSHIP POSITION WITH STANFORD’S CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is hiring a Summer…
As usual, Rebecca MacKinnon has the best coverage of the current state of censorship in China. She is a must read. Her latest post is on MSNSpaces censorship…
Video (click big show highlight). My Favorite line from Letterman: I am not smart enough to debate you point by point on this, but I have a feeling about 60% o…
Larry Lessig's column in the Financial Times: "Creatives face a closed Net," Jennifer Granick's column in Wired News: Go Back to Afghanistan,…
I'm going to be teaching "Law Technology and Privacy" at the law school this semester. I'm working on pulling together the syllabus and wonde…
皆様、明けましておめでとうございます。 本年もどうぞよろしくお願いします！ 今年は、このBlogも、もう少し頻繁に更新することを目標にします！（笑） さてさて、本当にご無沙汰しておりましたので、ちょっと近況など。 昨年9月に、4年2ヶ月の留学を終えて日本に帰国し、10月から職場に復帰しました。 私が不在の間に二度の合…
Yes, I'm behind a bit. The trips in December, the holidays, the unexpected workload, yadda yadda, blah blah... alas, I am back on track and we're puttin…