WULS: Volume 84 Number 5 (2006)

WULS: Volume 84 Number 5 (2006) Volume 84 Number 5 (2006) Washington University Law Review BLOGGERSHIP: HOW BLOGS ARE TRANSFORMING LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP The papers from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s symposium on Bloggership:  How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship, held on April 28, 2006 at Harvard Law School, have been published. See, 84 [...]

New Adjunct Professor of Law

Next semester I will be an Adjunct Professor of Law at UALR Bowen School of Law. I will be teaching the Trademark Practicum, which is one of the five classes in the school’s Intellectual Property Course Concentration. Growing up, all I wanted to be was a professor, so I am living the dream. Yes, they will [...]

Can Attorney’s Copy Complaints?

The law blog at the Wall Street Journal points out that a complaint filed against YouTube this week copies greatly from one filed a few weeks back. They highlighted the relevant text in the two complaints for you. Here is the first and second complaint. Is it infringment or fair use? Good question, which also [...]

Ave Maria Law

Totally unrelated to anything, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to point out this gem about Ave Maria Law (Mirror of Justice: Crisis at Ave Maria Law). Of course this is what happens when you mix fundamentalist religion (any religion) and the law. What did these profs. think would happen when they opted to work [...]

Justice Clarence Thomas at UALR William H. Bowen School of Law

Last Friday, the third Supreme Court Justice in three years spoke at my law school. This time it was Justice Clarence Thomas, who confirmed for me three things: 1. Anyone can become a Supreme Court justice with luck and timing. 2. Getting on the Court tends to push to the fore whatever bit of arrogance was [...]

2007 National Conference of Law Reviews

2007 National Conference of Law Reviews March 21-24, 2007 Little Rock, Arkansas Hosted by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review. Web Site: http://www.nclr2007.com

Collection of Posner Decisions

A searchable database of all Posner decisions by Time Wu (Columbia law School prof. and former former Posner clerk) Project Posner.

Applying Environmental Economics to Valuation in Copyright Infringement

I am the first guy to give props to an original idea, even this one, which is pushing the cross-disciple thing to the edge. Seton Hall law prof. Frank Pasquale argues in the most recent issue of The Yale Journal of Law & Technology that the environmental economics’ methods used for valuing natural resources should [...]

US News IP Rankings Out

The 2007 US News rankings are out, and the new top 10 IP law schools shifted a little. Univ of Ca.-Berkeley (Boalt) Stanford Univ. George Washington Univ. Santa Clara Univ. Univ. of Houston  Cardozo-Yeshiva Univ. Duke Univ. / Franklin Pierce Law Center x Chicago-Kent College of Law Columbia Univ. For the 2006 Rankings Univ of Ca.-Berkeley [...]