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…
Piqued at the annual critique by the U.S. State Department, China has turned the tables and prepared its own assessment of America's human rights record for…
Sebastian Mallaby has an interesting take on the possibility of Fiorina (or Wolfowitz) for the top job at the WB. He argues that appointing a failed private ma…
According to the Italian reporter's account, her captors were struck by the concern of an Italian soccer star with the kidnapping: Then an almost funny in…
Google has a blog! This is a tricky move for a public company, and I would hope that a lawyer is vetting posts to make sure that they comply with securities la…
Tom Friedman laments the "pacifist" EU's decision to sell arms to China. He might also lament our own decision to sell arms--including F-16s--to…
A new study reminds us how we should be extremely careful in interpreting supposed genetic predispositions: How long a man's second finger is relative to h…
So here is another potential example of an application of P2P systems that might even be helpful from the music industry's perspective.…
Time magazine quotes CIS Director Jennifer Granick in this short piece about information security.…
BBC reports on the killing of a 19-year-old Asian man, allegedly because of his race. Mubarek was battered to death by known racist Robert Stewart at Feltham Y…
This second-grade class in Nishiki has only three children. The school will close in 2007. (Photo: Anthony Faiola/Wash. Post) A baby bust in Japan is emptying…
I recently learned about a very cool music website called Magnatune.com. It's really a record lable but, in its words, it's "not evil". Magn…
Kal Penn ("Kumar") will star in upcoming Superman movie! Oh, wait: the fine print--he'll play Lex Luthor's genius sidekick. Ah, South Asian…