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…
Despite our best hopes, Iraq still remains unsafe for the Iraqi people. A Washington Post story recounts the recent terror: Insurgents have answered hopes for…
QUOTE OF DAY: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore." - Carly Fiorina, then-CEO, Hewlett Packard... urging Congress not to re…
SecurityFocus quotes Jennifer Granick in this article about recent changes in hacker sentencing guidelines. Jennifer is also quoted in this week's Business…
“It’s clear that some people have sent clothes that are actually meant to be used as dusters,” said Himali Fernando, another aid official. “We don’t mean to be…
Along with Clarke's memo of Jan 25, 2001, Clarke gave to Rice (now Sec'y) a 13-page memo on "Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist…
This is the first page of the memo itself. See the National Security Archives.…
Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request, we finally now have the memo that Richard Clarke gave to Condoleezza Rice on Jan. 25, 2001--five days after Bush…
Today, to appease all the Watergate buffs out there, we have a guest comment by Jack Ayer. Ayer is a renowned bankruptcy/commercial law professor who in earlie…
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The Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress whose goal is to handle research needs of Congress, recently prepared a report which d…
Dan Ravicher speaks on Protecting Freedom in the Patent System: The Public Patent Foundation’s Mission and Activities on 2/14 at 12:30 in room 271. Dan Raviche…
When we most need international law, it is most under attack. The right wing denounces international law constraints on national power while the left wing soun…