This morning I read the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Lopez Torres, holding that New York State's obviously manipulated state judicial nominating con…
Peter Byrne in Silicon Valley Metro (from 2006): "During the Cold War, {Daniel} Ellsberg worked as a "game theorist" for the Rand Corporation and…
Motion for Preliminary Injuction filed by Plaintiffs. * Publication Type:Litigation Brief * Publication Date:01/15/2008 Download PDF…
Today on Slate, Columbia Law Professor Tim Wu lays out an excellent explanation of why RDR Books has the right to publish the Harry Potter Lexicon, and why J.K.…
A fascinating article from today's New York Times: The search was not unusual: the government contends that it is perfectly free to inspect every laptop t…
The Powder & the Glory tells the story of two of the first highly successful women entrepreneurs in America, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. One hund…
I'm reading a fantastic book by Robert Wright called NonZero. As the website for the book describes it: '"Ingeniously employing game theory—the l…
Reason’s Jesse Walker on the fall of Mitt Romney: “I have to confess I’m enjoying Mike Huckabee’s victory, even though I disagree with virtually all of his plat…
Gary Hart on the Huffington Post this morning: "A year or so ago I wrote a book entitled The Courage of Our Convictions. It urged Democratic leaders to res…
I came across this anecdote earlier this week, reading in the Israeli press about a judge who quoted in a court opinion an article from the Hebrew Wikipedia, bu…
In this case, two archives challenged statutes that extended copyright terms unconditionally—the Copyright Renewal Act and the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTE…
Stephanie Rosenbloom in today's Times : "Now that first impressions are often made in cyberspace, not face-to-face, people are not only strategizing ab…