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…
I've been thinking about the New Year and new projects. Here are some thoughts. I feel like I've been quite neglectful on this site. This will all c…
The jobs postings in the Deccan Chronicle, a large circulation newspaper, sometimes specify the gender of the desired applicant. So the ad might read, for exam…
In contrast to the paltry immediate efforts of the U.S. in the earthquake response, European nations and Kuwait offered immediate help. The Wall Street Journal…
Under the dramatic heading "U.S. sends relief teams, planes to Asian nations," CNN reports: The United States has dispatched disaster teams to the As…
The Washington Post reports: Last night, more than 24 hours after the quake struck, Bush administration officials were unable to say what else the United State…
The website of the New Delhi law firm Anand and Anand Associates provides only contact information about the lawyers at that firm, with the following explanatio…
What if V.S. Naipaul would have blogged his travels, rather than set them down for future publication? I'm sure his writing was better for being in print.…
It was natural language processing after all, with stock footage. From Steve: How the chicken works: "It's automated. They have about 3 or 4 hundred…
One of the more surreal uses of the web that I've witnessed. Apparently a live webcam on a guy in a chicken outfit. You can order him to do stuff and he d…
The magazine Legal Affairs is conducting an online poll of the top 20 Legal Thinkers in America. Of course, they recognize the poll is unscientific, but it'…
Goodwin Liu of Boalt Hall has a nice rebuttal to Richard Sanders' bizarre claim that affirmative action hurts blacks by leading them down a primrose path:…
A new poll conducted by Cornell researchers finds: About 27 percent of respondents said that all Muslim Americans should be required to register their location…