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…
Photo: Like its namesake, the European Data Protection Directive ("DPD"), this Mercedes is old, German-designed, clunky and noisy – yet effective. [Ph…
Five years. It passes quickly, time as the currency of life. Five years ago (2007), Google surpassed Microsoft as the "most valuable global brand,"…
I am delighted to have been invited to guest blog on Concurring Opinions for the next few weeks. I am re-posting here with permission a shorter version of my po…
Two published book reviews! An Uncommonly Open Approach, written by Edella Schlager, was published in Science. Paul de Bijl published a review in the Journal…
The revised Cybersecurity Act sponsored by Lieberman and Collins needs work. It's provisions expand the government's ability to conduct network surveil…
Senators Lieberman and Collins have just released a revised version of cybersecurity legislation proposed earlier this summer. Weighing in at 211 pages, we have…
Once again, political campaign videos are being censored by copyright law. This time, Mitt Romney is the victim. After President Obama created an ad mocking Rom…
Nantucket responded to the introduction of motor vehicles by banning them. And this is how the town's mail carrier responded to that ban: A century later,…
Earlier this month, Without My Consent (my CIS fellow project) reached its one-year anniversary. To celebrate, we're pleased to announce our first speaker p…
Anyone who has ever attended law school in the United States knows what legal clinics are about. In recent years, clinical work with students in law school sett…
My fellow project for CIS, Without My Consent, just reached the one-year anniversary of its June 2011 launch. We recently gained our 501(c)(3) status and are no…
California's autonomous driving bill (SB 1298) has undergone further amendment. Two observations: What's changed: The newest version takes an increment…