Singularity Law

For many years, Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles (where I am a professor) has offered a unique LL.M program in Entertainment and Media Law. The program is open to lawyers worldwide, and has attracted lawyers from many countries. Unfortunately, a large number of lawyers who would be interested in getting an LL.M have found [...]

The brochures have been mailed out, the website is completed, and applications are coming in. For any U.S student from an ABA accredited law school, or any foreign law student interested in information technology law, we invite you to join us in London for 5 weeks of stimulating classes (6 units of course credit), interesting [...]

Last Thursday, Josh Kagan gave a talk on Web 2.0 law for my Internet & E-Commerce Law class here at Southwestern Law School. Josh covered several interesting topics, including copyleft licenses, DMCA takedown abuse, and blogger issues. This is a webcast of that talk.
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The following Q&A materials were developed for an internal newsletter at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles. I thought it might be of interest to law students wanting to learn more about the program, and law professor who have students that might be interested in the program. Please feel free to link to this page, or [...]

I have written about my law school’s evolving summer program in London (starting in 2009) on International Information Technology Law several time over the last year. (See here and here.) There have been a few wrinkles that had to be ironed out, but I am pleased to announce that the program has been finalized and [...]

Law students (and virtually every other kind of student) is under enormous pressure to specialize sooner and sooner. While I specialized early when I was in college, today I see doing so as an enormous error.
Law students need to know a lot about a lot of different areas, not just of law, but history, [...]

When I meet people and tell them I specialize in technology law, they often assume that I must be an earlier adopter of every new geewhiz tech gadget that comes out. But I’m not. I believe in what I refer to as “appropriate technology,” that is, getting the technology you need and what is appropriate [...]

After a year of planning, and encountering a few “bumps” along the way, I am pleased to announce that my law school, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, will begin a summer abroad program in International Information Technology Law in London in 2009. The program will be open to law students worldwide, although we expect the [...]

While preparing a proposal for a summer in London program on International Information Technology Law, I conducted a survey of U.S. law schools that have courses on computer, Internet or E-Commerce Law. While the titles vary widely, there appear to be around 150 law school offering such courses, and a total of 296 different [...]