Singularity Law

Several people have asked how I generate the tweets that I regularly post on Twitter (under @LawProf, @CopyrightLaw, @InternetLaw and @PrivacyLaw). There is actually no magic to it.
I use Google Reader to help me locate interesting blog entries, news articles, law review articles, etc. I subscribe to slightly more than 500 different blogs, so I [...]

I will be co-chairing an exciting, one-day conference at Southwestern Law School (Los Angeles) on Friday, September 18th on Cleantech Law and Policy.
The program will be divided into four panel discussions addressing a variety of topics, including:
1. The New Government Energy Policies and CleanTech’s Opportunities: Incentives and Market Drivers
2. Learning from the [...]

Just slightly less than two years ago, a number of volunteers launched the IT Law Wiki. Their intent was to develop a comprehensive encyclopedia of materials relating to the burgeoning field of information technology law.
The IT Law Wiki has reached an important milestone with the posting of its 5000th article. We are grateful to all [...]

During the last week there were two articles – one on the Wall Street Journal and one in the Los Angeles Times – about law firm establishing “specialties” in videogame law — as if this was a new field.
The fact is lawyers have been “specializing” in videogame law since the 1980s. When I began working [...]

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 [...]

Man cannot live by legal writing alone. As such, I have decided to participate in the National Novel Writing Month. I can’t start until midnight tonight, and I must complete the novel by the end of November. 50,000 words in 30 days. It won’t be pretty, but should be fun.
The genre will be science fiction, [...]

We have gone through the first eight years of the 21st Century without a coherent federal technology policy. During that time, we have seen investment in research and development in real dollars decline and the federal government basically ignore the value of technology to the U.S. economy and our future.
A recent article by John Mackoff [...]

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 [...]

In my last post, I noted that the Internet is incredibly vulnerable to outages at various points where there is little or no redundancy. A recent event seems to indicate that global Internet vulnerability is more serious than I thought. According to news reports, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told Internet service providers within the country [...]