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…
The Bush Administration seems likely to appoint U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick to the Presidency of the World Bank. Colin Powell had been mentioned…
The U.S. has kindly agreed to cancel the $4.1 billion dollars that Iraq owes to us. But the news stories don't explain what this debt consists in. When di…
Those creative folks at Jib Jab have come out with their Santa Claus parody... ho ho ho. See www.jibjab.com.…
In his response to soldier Wilson, Rumsfeld said that the failure to produce more armored Humvees was a matter of "physics." It seems hard to imagine…
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…