Why Tweeting MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech Now Constitutes Civil Disobedience
Why Tweeting MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech Now Constitutes Civil Disobedience: An article in Slate. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publicat…
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Regulation and Technology
This Article consists of some general observations and a few examples that illustrate them. First, technology can benefit tremendously from government involveme…
The Internet Deserves It's Own Holiday
The Internet Deserves It's Own Holiday: An op ed in Wired. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:01/02/2013…
How Do You Ticket a Driverless Car?
Ever since the 1930s, self-driving cars have been just 20 years away. Many of those earlier visions, however, depended on changes to physical infrastructure tha…
Managing Autonomous Transportation Demand
“Today we are well underway to a solution of the traffic problem.”1 This claim, made by Robert Moses in 1948, is as true today as it was then. Which is to say,…
Why the FCC should prevent ISPs from micromanaging our lives
by Brett Frischmann and Evan Selinger Network neutrality prevents broadband Internet service providers from micromanaging our lives online. Constraining the ne…
Brief Amici Curiae of the Center for Democracy & Technology and Legal Scholars in Support of Appellee
STATEMENT REGARDING CONSENT TO FILE AND SEPARATE BRIEFINGAll parties and intervenors have consented to the filing of this brief. Amici Curiae filed their notice…
Automated Vehicles are Probably Legal in the United States
Bryant Walker Smith, Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States, 1 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 411 (2014) (SSRN) This 2014 law review article (an upda…
Comments on the European Commission’s Public Consultation on Specific Aspects of Transparency, Traffic Management and Switching in an Open Internet
I welcome the opportunity to comment on the European Commission’s Public Consultation on Specific Aspects of Transparency, Traffic Management and Switching in a…
The Next Big Battle in Internet Policy
For two years, network neutrality, the nation’s most high-profile and contentious Internet policy conflict has taken a backseat to other debates—privacy investi…
Language, legality and liability
Bryant Walker Smith and Tom Gasser address the legal complexities that could threaten to bedevil the automated vehicle program. Read the full article in Thinki…
The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation
Book Website From the shopping mall to the corner bistro, knockoffs are everywhere in today's marketplace. Conventional wisdom holds that copying kills cre…