Singularity Law

The Information Technology Law Blog and Podcast by Professor Michael Scott

Join Us in London this Summer

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 [...]

Short Q&A on New Int’l IT Law Summer Program in London

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 [...]

A Misplaced Comma Causes Big Trouble

Teaching a course of technology contract drafting, I am often confronted with students who wonder why we spend so much time on the minutiae. The common question is “Does any of this really matter?” While I assure them that it does, there are not a lot of good, practical examples to show them. [...]

Students CAN Learn to Draft Technology Contracts

This year, for the first time, I offered a course for law students on drafting and negotiating technology agreements. While a few students had drafted contracts before, most of them were lucky to have read a couple of contracts (such as an apartment lease and an auto purchase agreement). Although they had all taken contract [...]