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…
George Bush has difficulty appearing alone in the face of any unscripted questions. The Washington Post reports: "Bush has held the fewest solo news conf…
I return to blogging after a wonderful visit to Brazil. I deeply appreciate my gracious host, Luiz Vigil, Dean of the Escola Superior do Minesterio Publico, in…
Nearly half of the nation's expected supply of flu vaccine will not be available this winter because the British government has suspended the manufacturing…
Amplifying Steve: Bruce Schneier just wrote a good op-ed in the International Herald Tribune on RFID.…
The Virginia legislature heard testimony today about the wisdom of implanting RFID chips in their state driver's licenses. No state currently uses RFID chi…
Area of interest (1): The Safe Harbor data protection system I am interested in the (practical) advantages and disadvantages of the Safe Harbor framework the E…
been working on a paper on international commercial arbitration which should be done at the end of the week. will get back to academic copyright issues then.…
I can't vouch for this, but the folks at Boalt are pointing out that in last night's debate Dick Cheney pointed viewers to FactCheck.com. He probably me…
Jonathan Poritz, Matthias Schunter, Els Van Herreweghen, Michael Waidner, Property Attestation - Scalable and Privacy-friendly Security Assessment of Peer Compu…
Last week, Margaret Jane Radin, Stanford law prof on loan to Michigan (and 1L Contracts prof to yours truly), came by to talk about not one but two new papers,…
I can't help but find it wÿkked awesome that some hackers have managed to successfully install Mac OS X on the Xbox (screenie). Sure, the Xbox was heavily m…
Ballmer, a MS exec, calls all iPod users thieves. I prefer the term "pirate", thank you very much.…