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…
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…
I came upon a public policy report entitled "The Progress of Science and Useful Arts: Why Copyright Today Threatens Intellectual Freedom" from the Fre…
The entry of Gary Becker into the blog world makes me wonder what other Nobel laureates should enter the blogosphere. My initial thoughts: Amartya Sen (Economi…
Nobel laureate Gary Becker and legal collossus Richard Posner have now opened their blog, to much fanfare. Their first set of posts take up the issue of preem…
The Administration-That-Couldn't-Shoot-Straight now has a new solution to the flu vaccine shortage--the importation of experimental flu vaccine from Germany…
Chander Blog reader Shareen writes about a new South Asian kids magazine, Kahani: "Thanks for the link to Kahani.I hope they transition into a text that i…
Reports indicate that "IBM will hold an 18.9 percent stake in Lenovo." So should the lead be: "IBM acquire Lenovo"? This strikes me as an a…
The LA Times reports on allegations of murder by soldiers in Iraq conducting house-by-house sweeps. The allegations are chilling. Soldiers approached a small,…
It's been a bit since I last posted, and I will blame the holidays and general busy-ness for my slow down in posting here. Some of my distraction from blog…
The government's summary judgment reply brief for the Golan v. Ashcroft litigation can be found on the case page.…
The Government's reply brief in support of summary judgment was filed on Nov. 24, 2004. No hearing date is presently scheduled for this motion.…