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…
Another Elizabeth, another promising blog: academic copyright.…
Suuuueeee, feeding time for patent litigators (and patent avengers!). The Federal Circuit has issued an Order taking en banc a case called "Phillips"…
Since income is only a very incomplete measure of human welfare, I include below the World Bank figures for life expectancy.…
President Bush (43) has decided to hit the campaign trail instead of the golf course this August. Bush Schedule: August 2001--Vacation--Golf/clearing brush/boa…
The Sudanese catastrophe has continued far too long without active intervention by the rest of the world. It's far past time to plead with the Sudanese gov…
I'll take a look at this blog by Brad Hill from time to time.…
Derek Slater at A Copyfighter's Musings is all over the eBay digital download experiment, exploring whether the first sale doctrine can apply to digital cop…
The new World Bank country statistics book offers the following breakdown of the world's population, according to average annual income per capita.…
The 9/11 Commission may suggest the creation of a new intelligence czar to coordinate the intelligence from various agencies. But such a position already exis…
The 9/11 Commission will report on possible connections of Iran to the 9/11 hijackers. As per a CNN.com report: The commission has found that eight to 10 of t…
The Governator refuses to withdraw his denunciation of his Democratic legislative opponents as "girlie men." How about the female legislators who opp…
Joe Gratz…