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AI v. the Law: Should the Law Keep Up With AI?
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…
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Applying Federal Digital Communications Privacy Law to Hosted AI Models
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…
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Well, At Least the Anti-States’ Rights AI EO Spares AI-CSAM Laws
On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
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Rancor in Scarborough Country
After a recent contentious panel with Christopher Hitchens that dissolved into an embarrassing shouting match, Joe Scarborough delivered a little eplilogue apol…
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SF Police star in videos that mock minorities and treat women as sex objects
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…
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First Draft of Materials Almost Ready
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…
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Wikipedia raises its bar
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…
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Christoph Engemann (2005)
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…
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Levine Engages in Shameless Self-Promotion (and Speaks of Himself in the Third Person, to Boot)
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…
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Which Code is Law?
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…
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Utah Senator's Race
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'…
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Evidence of the need for Network Neutrality
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…
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Don't take away my CrackBerry!
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…
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Off to London
I'm off to London next week to give a couple lectures with my colleague, Elizabeth Townsend Gard, who is teaching at the London School of Economics this yea…
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From Idealism to Rancor in the House of Representatives
Hendrik Hertzberg has a great About Town entry in the New Yorker talking about Jean Schmidt, who recently gained notoriety for her slam against Jack Murtha, the…