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…
At this time (approximately 11:50 pm ET) on Saturday, December 10, 2005, if you enter "National Security," Sarbanes, and Oxley into Google, the number…
I don't usually have that much patience for discussions about how terrible the big media companies are and how they're going to destroy fair use, creati…
After a recent contentious panel with Christopher Hitchens that dissolved into an embarrassing shouting match, Joe Scarborough delivered a little eplilogue apol…
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, twenty SF cops have been suspended for alleged involvement in videos that include, according to Chief Heather Fong, &q…
So I've been fairly quiet here, but I finally have something fun to talk about now. One of my PhD students, Shelley Henson, has been working on a first set…
Wikipedia, the world's free, user-made encyclopedia, just announced that it will require people who make new entries to register before doing so. The gener…
The Citoyen of Electronic Government with Christoph Engemann CIS Fellow Monday December 5, 2005 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch…
What is a blog if not an opportunity to implicitly or explicitly convince the wary that you have something valuable to say, and then say it? Or, at least, show…
Today North Carolinas State Board of Elections has included Diebold to the list of recommended manufactures of voting maschines. This ruling comes despite the f…
Maybe I'm the last to notice, but check out Pete Ashdown running against Senator Hatch. Particularly his issues list and his campaign wiki. I guess it'…
Stanford Law student Dana Powers points me to this Washington Post article where BellSouth is asking for the right to regulate quality of service on their netwo…
On an ongoing patent infringement battle between Research In Motion and NTP might lead to a BlackBerry service shutdown sometime within the month. A recent NY…