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…
Online music sales, copyright, media aren't my main focus as a CIS Fellow, but I do burn a fair bit of time exploring the issues. I recently designed some m…
People make mistakes: errors of judgement (say, choosing a vote counting technology that is unreliable or open to fraud); and errors of execution ("pushing…
I have been away from blogging the last few weeks primarily because my new (six months) computer's hard drive died. This followed the LCD display dying in…
Jeffery Hart had a great piece in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday characterizing the core tenets of American conservatism. It does a very good job presentin…
Dec 27, 2005- Commentary on law.com titled "The Virtue of an Activist Judge in a Time of Terror."…
I wrote a commentary piece for law.com about how activist judges can be a virtue in a time when the Administration is being activist in stretching the boundarie…
The dangers of speech crimes. The NYT reports that Zhao Yan, 43, who worked in the newspaper's Beijing bureau, and has spent 15 months in prison without a…
(I'll preface this post by saying the reason I find the circumvention of the FISA Court so intriguing is that in this space, I'm usually complaining abo…
Wow. I had to post again. Talk about mainstream public figures stepping up to the plate. It's not just Clinton-appointed Judges who are outraged by the Ad…
I haven't been blogging because I'm trying to get a paper (ironically on blogging and the First Amendment) finished by the time school resumes. But I&#…
Nicholas Kristof offers an intruiging inside perspective (and astute cross-cultural commentary) in his NYT column today: "Perhaps I'm particularly sen…
Slate is running a contest entitled "Billable Horrors," which, as the title suggests, is a contest where lawyers are asked to submit "the meanest…