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…
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…
On Iraqi election weekend, NY Times reporter Judith Miller appeared on Hardball and said that the Bush Administration was reaching out to Ahmad Chalabi and had…
A big coup for UNC Law, through the initiative of Dean Gene Nichols: Edwards announced Friday that he will head a new nonpartisan center to study ways to move…
The image of Americans dipping their fingers in blue ink in solidarity with brave Iraqis is striking. Before the war, we assumed that the ordinary people of Ir…
"Dismantling the New Deal for Over 1 Month" COMPETITION ========== SBC's big bid for Ma Bell $16 billion deal with telephony stalwart A…
My friend Shane tells me that Blackberrys work in the NY subways because they run on old radio pager technology. Apparently, the subways have long had radio tr…
As I mentioned a couple of months ago, the magazine Legal Affairs is conducting an online poll of the top 20 Legal Thinkers in America. Of course, they recogn…
CNN.com reminds us that last year, In the middle of the controversy, Rumsfeld appeared before Congress and said he took "full responsibility" for wha…
A few months ago, my Mac crashed and I had to restore the system from scratch. All the music on my computer was gone. But wait--all the music was synced up to…
I've been thinking about the recent copyright office call for comments on orphan works. What is it that I would wish? The word that keeps coming back to m…
The President will announce that those 55 and older will not face benefit changes in their social security. (Presumably, those 55 years or older who are still…