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…
Judge Hall in Bridgeport, CT issued her opinion in ACLU v. Gonzales today, holding that the gag order associated with the National Security Letter received by a…
On 27 May 2005 the Constitutional Court of South Africa handed down judgment in the case of Laugh It Off Promotions CC v South African Breweries International (…
Segueing back to cyberlaw, this great, must-see montage on Salon, Reporters Gone Wild, is an excellent example of why content needs to be freely available for t…
Jay Rosen has a interesting post on PressThink, that I’ll boil down to: whether critical thinking is absent from the reporting on Katrina, or whether its true t…
Telkom, South Africa’s incumbent telecommunications operator has dropped its case against the creators of Hellkom, a satirical site dedicated to protesting the…
When can companies resort to "compliance with local law" justifications for despicable acts that censor, imprison, or otherwise impede the human right…
He said: the digit-squatter sitting on 1-800-RED-CROSS tried to charge the Red Cross a seven-digit figure to turn over the number, which they desperately need t…
Apropos of my last post, I just tried to post a comment in response to Orin Kerr's Case for a new Computer Crime Law and New Doctrines on Balkinization, but…
Flickr users are annoyed they need to go through Yahoo's log-in to get to their site and have threatened mass suicide if the policy is not changed. Susan C…
Spring 2005- Q & A in The News Media and the Law on whether bloggers should be protected by the journalist's privilege.…
Check out theBOBs - the Best of the Blogs - 2005 international, multilingual weblog awards with best journalist site awards for 9 languages.…
This morning President Bush nominated Judge Roberts to be Chief. Hearings are likely to start Thursday or next Monday after Chief Justice Rehnquist's funer…