Archive for the ‘Law’ Category
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 by BH
Against Intellectual Property, by Stephen N. Kinsella (free online).
Against Intellectual Monopoly, by Michelle Boldrin and David K. Levine (free online).
Free Culture, by Lawrence Lessig (free online).
The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives, by Michael Heller (not free online).
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008 by BH
From ABC news:
Call it a rite of passage: children by the roadside peddling their homemade goodies to adults who are more than eager to drop a few cents into a makeshift cashbox.
But Katie and Sabrina Lewis' veggie stand, in the town of Clayton, Calif., where they sold homegrown watermelons ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 by BH
It was only a matter of time (Law X.0): "Attorneys are turning to various Social Networking sites looking for any bit of information that might aid in process of selecting or removing jurors."
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 by BH
Via AS, the McCain/Obama antitrust deathmatch (BLT):Two local antitrust lawyers on different sides of the presidential election are getting ready to square off in a D.C. Bar debate. James Rill, a partner at Howrey, will address Sen. John McCain’s antitrust positions. William Kolasky, a partner with Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008 by BH
Sorry AS, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia does not like your kind (telegraph):
Justice Scalia said he thought that the United States was "over-lawed", leading to too many lawyers in the country.
"I don't think our legal system should be that complex. I think that any system that requires that many ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008 by BH
Northwestern University is following the University of Dayton in offering a compressed law degree. Yes CJB, all great things start in Ohio. The ABA lifted its requirement that all laws schools offer six semesters of schooling. Dayton was the first to pave the way. See Inside Higer Ed for more.
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008 by BH
Lawrence Lessig offers some insight. See here, then here.
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008 by BH
“You want to really lower crime?” Carl began. “Let cops enforce the rules. The whole way. You ask any cop on the street and he’ll tell you that he would love to dish out the punishment, on the spot.”
From Freakonomics. Read this too. I can't get Public Enemy out of ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 by BH
Apparently the Associated Press (AP) has no interest in sharing its content online. AP went after the Drudge Retort this past weekend because of some user generated comments and articles that linked to and quoted from AP stories. AP just released a new policy that bans pretty much any use ...
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008 by BH
Tim Kane interviews Michael Jensen, co-founder of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN.) Among the excellent Q&A, I found this bit inspiring:
In my own field, I was part of a very small group doing cutting-edge work in the early days of modern finance, and I noticed that elites in all ...
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Saturday, March 29th, 2008 by CJB
This is a great article and a fascinating case I think. A few people are bringing a case that would suspend operations at particle accelerators because they fear that they could create black holes that then swallow the entire world. It sounds crazy, but rational people have at least theorized ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 by CJB
Andy Petite apparently testified that he saw Roger Clemens injected with steroids or Human Growth Hormone. However, RC is directly contradicting that under oath, saying he has never taken either. I wonder who is correct. I think we should ask Marion Jones.
Would I testify against a friend? Umm, only a ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2008 by AS
Vice President Cheney, as President of the Senate, has signed on to the bipartisan Congressional brief urging that the DC gun statute be found unconstitutional as a violation of the Second Amendment. The Executive Branch, of which the Vice President is also presumably a member, filed a brief a ...
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