On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
As reported in the Korea Times, Kerik fathered a daughter with a Korean woman while he was stationed as a policeman in Korea in the 1970s. New US Homeland Chie…
Incompetence has its rewards. Bremer badly mismanaged the Iraq Occupation. Just yesterday, the Iraqi interim President complained bitterly of the disbanding o…
According to Harvard University Libraries, Google will scan not only books out of copyright, but also books still in copyright. It will not make those latter b…
BBC.com reports that "More American soldiers have died since Saddam's capture than before." That makes this a much sadder anniversary than it mig…
This letter writer to the NY Times defends Rumsfeld's interrogator... Re: "G.I.'s Query to Rumsfeld Prompted by Reporter" (news article, Dec.…
From time to time, my snail mailbox here contains an interesting article sent to me from Paul Lomio, one of the amazing law librarians here at SLS. Paul recent…
The allegations in the David Hicks affidavit are shocking, even though we are inured to the steady stream of horrifying claims (some, at least substantiated by…
i have been neglecting this blog, in part because of the spam, but also because the last month or so has been crazy busy. I'm very excited to be a non-res…
Cert. granted by the Court. 04-480 MGM STUDIOS INC., ET AL. V. GROKSTER, LTD., ET AL. I personally would have preferred the Court to have waited longer to ent…
Berube comes clean... I've been ... damn busy making sure that my department doesn't hire any conservatives this year. We have two positions open in R…
The interim Iraqi constitution requires that a quarter of the legislature to be elected in January must be women. How does this compare with the composition of…
International law giant Thomas M. Franck offers another rebuttal to the Becker/Posner type of argument in his short piece in the Proceedings of the American Soc…