AI v. the Law: Should the Law Keep Up With AI?
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…
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…
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…
What follows is the second of three posts on Capitol Records v. Vimeo. The first post is here. Capitol Records' lawsuit against Vimeo, running in federal c…
What follows is the first of three posts on today's long-awaited decision by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Capitol Records v. Vimeo. Capitol’s law…
The D.C. Circuit today upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) 2015 network neutrality regulations, vindicating the agency’s decision to reclassify…
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School has appointed Luiz Fernando Marrey Moncau as Intermediary Liability Fellow. In this role at CIS…
Media leaders have always stood up for a free press and the First Amendment. Now it's Facebook's turn. My Recode column is here: http://www.recode.net/2…
May 2016 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2016-may/ Retrospect is a flagship publication of the Int…
The European Commission is making major steps forward in its new Digital Single Market strategy. One important part, the Platform Liability consultation, pointe…
In defending Facebook against government scrutiny by invoking First Amendment rights, we’ve overlooked the legal consequences for CDA 230 and risk constitutiona…
The Email Privacy Act is moving forward in the Senate. S.356, which currently has 28 cosponsors, would require a warrant for stored content -- essentially codi…
The Facebook Trending Topics controversy has been analyzed from many angles, but there's been virtually no attention paid to the single most troubling aspec…
Jonathan Taplin’s op-ed (Do You Love Music? Silicon Valley Doesn’t) in the May 20 edition of The New York Times perpetuates a powerful dichotomy that has come t…
This blog continues the analysis of how to respond to terrorist activity (including recruitment and planning of attacks) using network information technology, i…