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The inviolable right to a day in court
Randy Cohen, the NYT Magazine Ethicist, today: " The gynecologist I’ve seen for seven years has begun requiring patients to waive their right to a day in…
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How to Disagree
Very interesting post from Paul Graham: "The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets rea…
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A deeper deadening
Sean Wilsey, reviewing Service Included by Phoebe Domrosch, in the New York Times Book Review: "Depending on your constitution you will revel or recoil at…
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One last thing on Obama's speech...
...he wrote it himself. No advisors, no speechwriters, no crib notes. Amazing.…
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Reactions to Obama's speech on race, from both the left and the right
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/18/obama-race-speech-reactio_n_92121.html Andrew Sullivan: "But I do want to say that this searing, nuanced, gut-wre…
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Ph.D. & Postdoc positions in Zurich
In June, I am moving to the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich, Switzerland. We have several vacancies for doctoral students (law and…
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"your dreams do not have to come at the expense of my dreams..."
From Obama's speech on race in America that he delivered today: "For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division,…
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New Book: Eye of the Storm Leadership
A few years ago, my friend Peter Adler hosted a meeting on Capitol Hill entitled "Political Courage and the Power of Bridge-Building" that involved so…
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How Google and eBay Act Like Nations
Michael S. Malone on the ABC News website: "So, what do I think these stories have in common? They beautifully capture just how the nature of companies has…
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Spotlight on Patent Claim Construction
An ongoing project reviews patent claim construction orders adding the salient features into a thesaurus of claim constructions. Additionally, I characterize t…
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SXSW - Sexual Privacy Online
I attended the Sexual Privacy On Line panel at SXSW yesterday. Violet Blue moderated with panelists Jonathan Moore, Zoe Margolis, John D’Addario, and Jason Schu…
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Rowling v. RDR Books Trial Set For April 14
The Court has put this case on the proverbial fast track by combining the hearing on the preliminary injunction motion filed by Ms. Rowling and Warner Brothers…