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Justice Stevens Takes on Originalism
In Roper v. Simmons, today's 5-4 decision outlawing the juvenile death penalty, Justice Stevens begins his concurrence with a direct hit at Justice Scalia (…
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Justice Kennedy the Internationalist
Justice Kennedy's opinion today in Roper v. Simmons, declaring the juvenile death penalty unconstitutional, draws inspiration from foreign precedents. It r…
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Open Voting Bill excludes Free Software?!
Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer and a couple more high ranking politicians last week issued a proposal for their 'Count Every Vote Act of 2005' that the…
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Josh Singer, writer, The West Wing
Monday February 28, 2005 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Room 180 Free and Open to all! Lunch Served…
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Capitalism with a Human Face: India's experiment
India's finance minister has unveiled an "anti-poverty" budget that raises spending on health, education, and rural infrastructure. Many economis…
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Bono for World Bank President?
The LA Times proposes U2 lead singer Bono for the presidency of the World Bank. Don't be fooled by the wraparound sunglasses and the excess hipness. Bono i…
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Indian Nominee for Oscar
An Indian film called "Little Terrorist" has been nominated for best short film. Here's the hook: Jamal is 10 years old, Pakistani, and a cricke…
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FTC's Patent Reform "Town Meeting"
I attended the FTC's Patent "town meeting" in San Jose on March 18 (complete set of slides from the meetings are available to download here). Thi…
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A world of region-coding
At the 3rd DRM conference this January in Berlin, Ross Anderson gave a dinner speech in which he envisaged a world suffused by region-coding technology (imagine…
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AARP Brief Filed
The Cyberlaw Clinic also assisted the AARP in writing an amicus brief in Brand-X Internet Services v. FCC. The brief argued that by categorizing cable broadband…
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ACLU Brief Filed
The American Civil Liberties Union, represented by members of the Cyberlaw Clinic, filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Supreme Court supporting open access…
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Trackback spamming
Some readers may remember that we used to have a big comment spam problem at CIS blogs (see here and, more generally, here). Now that this problem has been fix…