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Happy 10,000th Post!
posted by William McGeveran
I was just working on my next guest post when I noticed a little statistic in the dashboard: there have been 10,007 posts to Concurring Opinions. Which means this lil’ ol’ “blawg” passed a significant milestone about a week ago that deserves some celebration — and heartfelt thanks to Dan Solove and the cadre of other permanent bloggers who keep it going.
By my count, post number 10,000 was a pointer to a new essay about the Kirtsaeng decision in the Stanford Law Review Online. That’s appropriate, because spreading the word about interesting and timely legal scholarship — especially stuff that appears in less traditional places like the journals’ online supplemnets — has been one of ConOp’s many services to the rest of us for years now.
May 11, 2013 at 12:37 pm
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Albany Law Review Symposium “What Are We Saying? Violence, Vulgarity, Lies . . . And The Importance Of 21st Century Free Speech”
posted by Danielle Citron
The Albany Law Review had a terrific symposium on free speech. Here is their description of the symposium and the links to the excellent pieces.
In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has issued a number of head-turning decisions regarding freedom of speech under the First Amendment. Taken as a whole, some might say that the Roberts Court appears somewhat schizophrenic on free speech and expression issues. This is the Court that stretched the boundaries of free speech, recognizing First Amendment protections for selling violent video games to minors, lying about receiving military honors, protesting at the funerals of soldiers, and–perhaps most controversially of all–contributing to political campaigns through independent expenditures by corporations and unions. Yet this is also the Court that constrained free speech by saying that the First Amendment did not protect a district attorney who criticized a policy set by his supervisor, that the First Amendment did not protect high school students punished for posting remarks on the Internet outside school grounds, and that the First Amendment did not protect a humanitarian aid organization that provided non-violent educational materials to a group deemed by the U.S. government to be a threat. Clearly, a split record with some interesting lines that appear to be drawn. This symposium examines these recent decisions by the Roberts Court, exploring both the impact of these decisions and the direction in which the Supreme Court really seems to be going on matters of free expression. Leading First Amendment scholars and advocates grapple with some of the major modern issues in this area: academic freedom, modern-day limits on “hate speech,” government stifling of political dissent, restrictions on free expression on the Internet and on television, First Amendment problems in criminal conspiracy laws. Additionally, the symposium includes two transcripts of lively discussions on free speech issues: a debate between First Amendment heavyweights Floyd Abrams and Alan B. Morrison on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and a panel discussion about the Roberts Court’s free speech jurisprudence moderated by NY Times Supreme Court correspondent Adam Liptak. Through these articles and transcripts, we provide a look through the eyes of experts at what the Roberts Court really is saying about contemporary freedom of speech, and a series of viewpoints on whether this direction really is favorable for our modern society.”
Ronald K.L. Collins……Foreword: Exceptional Freedom—The Roberts Court, the First Amendment, and the New Absolutism
Robert M. O’Neil ………Hate Speech, Fighting Words, and Beyond–Why American Law is Unique
Rodney A. Smolla……..Categories, Tiers of Review, and the Roiling Sea of Free Speech Doctrine and Principle: A Methodological Critique of United States v. Alvarez
Jeffery C. Barnum………Encouraging Congress to Encourage Speech: Reflections on United States v. Alvarez
Marjorie Heins……….The Supreme Court and Political Speech in the 21st Century: The Implications of Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
R. George Wright………Are There First Amendment “Vacuums?”: The Case of the Free Speech Challenge to Tobacco Package Labeling Requirement
Robert D. Richards & David J. Weinert………Punting in the First Amendment’s Red Zone: The Supreme Court’s “Indecision” on the FCC’s Indecency Regulations Leaves Broadcasters Still Searching For Answers
Marvin Ammori & Luke Pelican………Media Diversity and Online Advertising
Martin H. Redish & Michael J.T. Downey………Criminal Conspiracy as Free Expression
Owen Fiss……..The Democratic Mission of the University
Welcome & Opening Remarks…….Benjamin P. Pomerance
Debate on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission…….Floyd Abrams and Alan B. Morrison, moderated by Ronald K.L. Collins
Panel Discussion on Recent U.S. Supreme Court Free Speech Cases and Their Implications……Adam Liptak (moderator), Ronald K.L. Collins, Susan N. Herman, Alan B. Morrison, Robert M. O’Neil, Robert D. Richards
May 2, 2013 at 12:34 pm
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Welcoming Back Guest Blogger William McGeveran
posted by Danielle Citron
I am thrilled to welcome back a friend of the blog Professor William McGeveran, the Lampert Fesler Research Fellow and Associate Professor of Law at University of Minnesota School of Law. Professor McGeveran specializes in information law, including intellectual property, data privacy, communications and technology, and free speech. His primary current research focuses on legal and other rules governing digital identity and data privacy, ranging from online impersonation to celebrities’ rights over their images to the privacy features of Facebook and other social networks. Additional areas of research include rights to use trademarks for communicative purposes such as parody or comparative advertising, and the tension between transparency and privacy in regimes areas such as election regulation or open records laws. He teaches Data Privacy, Trademark, Civil Procedure I and II, and Law in Practice. He is an affiliated professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and a frequently uses Twitter (as @BillMcGev).
Professor McGeveran earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University and a B.A., magna cum laude, in political science from Carleton College. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota, Professor McGeveran was a resident fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He previously clerked for Judge Sandra Lynch on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and practiced as an intellectual property litigator at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston. Before law school, Professor McGeveran worked in national politics for seven years, primarily as a policy aide to Democrats in the United States House of Representatives. He grew up in New York City.
May 1, 2013 at 8:45 am
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Introducing David L. Schwartz
posted by Sarah Waldeck
I am happy to welcome David L. Schwartz, who will be a guest blogger during the month of May.
Dave joined the faculty of Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2009, where he is presently an Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property. From 2006 until 2009, Dave was an Assistant Professor of Law at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. Prior to entering academics, he spent over a decade as an intellectual property law practitioner, including being a partner at two intellectual property boutique firms in Chicago.
Dave’s main area is empirical studies of patent litigation. He is also interested in judicial decision-making and the use of legal scholarship in judicial opinions. Some of his works include Analyzing the Role of Non-Practicing Entities in the Patent System, 99 Cornell L. Rev. (forthcoming 2014) (with Jay Kesan), Standards of Proof in Civil Litigation:An Experiment from Patent Law, Harv. J. L. & Tech.(forthcoming 2013) (with Christopher Seaman), and An Empirical Assessment of the Supreme Court’s Use of Legal Scholarship, 106 Nw. U. L. Rev. 995 (2012) (with Lee Petherbridge).
Welcome Dave!
April 29, 2013 at 10:44 pm
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Ed de Grazia, RIP
posted by Lawrence Cunningham
RIP to Ed de Grazia, my 1L Criminal Law teacher and later colleague at Cardozo for a decade, who passed away at the age of 86. As the NYT puts it today, Ed was a “fierce civil libertarian.”
Landmarks of his outstanding career as a lawyer who opposed government censorship include his 1964 SCOTUS victory on behalf of the publisher of Henry Miller’s sexually explicit book Tropic of Cancer. Ed’s own 1994 book, Girls Lean Back Everywhere, was a stirring defense of artistic freedom against state power.
Ed, who spent most of his career at Cardozo with shorter stints at Catholic, Connecticut, Georgetown and Yale, was an impressive teacher. He presented material and led students through discussion with total objectivity, with no assumptions or pre-judgments.
He insisted that we students explain why any given alleged behavior violated a particular criminal law. That went as much for arson, burglary, and homicide as it did for cannibalism, incest and necrophilia. Ed’s method was demanding, leading a class that sharpened legal minds. He also taught a special seminar as part of Cardozo’s prosecutor internship program where his pedagogy and philosophy instilled a deep sense of obligation to think and explain rather than blindly pursue and enforce.
Ed was also a passionate proponent of privacy before the modern era developed such an intense interest in the topic. For example, as the NYT notes today, Ed argued that newspapers had no business reporting on the romances of political figures, such as Gary Hart’s affair with Donna Rice that doomed his political career. Ed preferred not to judge his fellow human beings, leaving that to the inner tribunal of the conscience and above all keeping the state’s role in people’s lives as limited as possible.
Ed was also a great colleague for the same reasons: he welcomed all forms and manner of scholarly inquiry and loved learning about why any one of us found our subject so interesting. Ed was cool, smart and earnest. We will all miss him but always remember his spirit.
April 24, 2013 at 8:35 am
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Call for Papers: National Business Law Scholars Conference
posted by Lawrence Cunningham
I am delighted to pass along the following notice from the organizers of the National Business Law Scholars Conference. I’m also honored to report that they have asked me to deliver the keynote at this year’s conference, and I look forward to doing so.
Deadline Extended to May 31
We have recei
ved an enthusiastic response to the Call for Papers for the National Business Law Scholars Conference, scheduled for June 12-13, at The Ohio State University School of Law. We will have additional openings for anyone who would like to make a presentation but has not yet responded. Thus, we have extended the deadline to MAY 31st. See the Call for Papers, re-posted below with the extended deadline date, for details on how to submit:
National Business Law Scholars Conference: Call-for-Papers
The National Business Law Scholars Conference (NBLSC) will be held on Wednesday, June 12th and Thursday, June 13th at The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law in Columbus, Ohio. This is the fourth annual meeting of the NBLSC, a conference which annually draws together dozens of legal scholars from across the United States and around the world. We welcome all on-topic submissions and will attempt to provide the opportunity for everyone to actively participate. Junior scholars and those considering entering the legal academy are especially encouraged to participate.
To submit a presentation, email Professor Eric C. Chaffee at echaffee1@udayton.edu with an abstract or paper by MAY 31, 2013. Please title the email “NBLSC Submission – {Name}”. If you would like to attend, but not present, email Professor Chaffee with an email entitled “NBLSC Attendance”. Please specify in your email whether you are willing to serve as a commentator or moderator. A conference schedule will be circulated in late May.
Conference Organizers:
Barbara Black (University of Cincinnati)
Eric C. Chaffee (University of Dayton)
Steven M. Davidoff (The Ohio State University)
April 17, 2013 at 9:56 am
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Up Next Week: Online Symposium on Corey Brettschneider’s “When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?”
posted by Danielle Citron
Next week, we will be hosting an online symposium on Professor Corey Brettschneider’s book “When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?: How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality” (Princeton University Press, 2012). Professor Brettschneider is a Professor of Political Science at Brown University and, in the fall, he will be visiting Fordham University School of Law, joining our very own guest blogger Olivier Sylvain. The Harvard Law Review’s recent publications authors describe the book in this way:
Free speech scholars note a growing gap between speech regulations in the United States and in Europe. While European democracies criminalize hate speech as a threat to democratic egalitarianism, the United States has clung to a fiercely neutralist approach, protecting free speech rights regardless of the speaker’s viewpoint. Advocates of neutralism criticize prohibition- ists for trampling individual liberties; prohibitionists decry neutralists for protecting hateful speech inimical to their liberal political ideals. In a timely new book, Professor Corey Brettschneider suggests a third alternative: while continuing to uphold protections for individual hate speech in their regulatory capacities, governments in their expressive capacities should engage in a process of “democratic persuasion” that levies the state’s pedagogical, symbolic, and spending powers to pro- mote values of equality and tolerance (pp. 4–5). Avoiding the paralysis of the liberal democracy too committed to neutrality to resist its own ideological enemies, democratic persuasion aims at a political ideal of “value democracy”: a political order that respects individual freedoms while taking a firm expressive stand on its preferred social values (pp. 24–25). Professor Brettschneider’s book tackles a debate at the fore- front of contemporary free speech scholarship with a clarity that should make it accessible to readers outside the legal academy.
We have a wonderful group of scholars joining us (many whose books we recently celebrated at CoOp):
April 4, 2013 at 4:19 pm
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Introducing Guest Blogger Meredith Render
posted by Danielle Citron
I’m excited to introduce Meredith Render, who is an Associate Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law. Professor Render and I taught together when she was visiting at Maryland–she is an exciting scholar and teacher who
writes about property, civil Rights, and gender and the law. Her scholarship explores a variety of issues related to the nature of property rights and the constitutive role of formal and informal rules. Professor Render’s article The Law of the Body, is forthcoming in the Emory Law Journal and her article Gender Rules was selected for presentation at Yale Law School as part of the Yale /Stanford Junior Faculty Forum. Professor Render also has book chapters forthcoming in books published by the University of Alabama Press and Cambridge University Press. Professor Render joined the Alabama faculty in 2007. Prior to joining the faculty, she was a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland. Professor Render also clerked for the Honorable Fortunato Benavides of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and for the Honorable George W. Lindberg of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Professor Render received her JD from Georgetown University Law Center.
Her recent scholarship includes:
The Law of the Body 62 EMORY L.J. _ (forthcoming).
Sex Discrimination by Religious Institutions: An Uneasy Case for Tolerance, in MATTERS OF FAITH (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, Austin Sarat ed., 2012).
Power, Paradigms, and Legal Prescriptions: “The Rule of Law” as a Necessary but Not Sufficient Condition for Transitional Justice, in TRANSITIONS (forthcoming, The University of Alabama Press, Austin Sarat ed., 2012).
Gender Rules, 22 YALE J. L. FEMINISM 133 (2010).
April 1, 2013 at 9:40 am
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Welcoming Back Guest Blogger Olivier Sylvain
posted by Danielle Citron
I’m delighted to welcome back as a guest blogger Olivier Sylvain. Professor Sylvain is an Associate Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. His academic interests include the public lawmaking processes generally and
communications law and policy in particular. He teaches telecommunications law, Internet law, and administrative law. He is also a Research Associate at the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center at Fordham. Before teaching, Professor Sylvain was a litigation associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block, LLC where he worked on a variety of constitutional law and telecommunications related matters. Before Jenner, he was the Marvin Karpatkin Fellow in the National Legal Office of the AmericanCivil Liberties Union.
Professor Sylvain’s recent scholarship includes:
Broadband Localism, 73 Ohio State Law Journal 795 (2012)
Internet Governance and Democratic Legitimacy, Federal Communications Law Journal, Vol. 62, No. 2 (2010)
Domesticating “the Great, Throbbing, Common Pulse of America”: A Study of the Ideological Origins of the Radio Act of 1927 (2010) (dissertation)
Contingency and the “Networked Information Economy”: A Critique of the “Wealth of Networks,” The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Volume 4, Issue 3 (2008), pp.203-210.
April 1, 2013 at 9:34 am
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Welcoming Back Guest Blogger Taunya Lovell Banks
posted by Danielle Citron
I am thrilled to welcome back as a guest blogger my colleague Taunya Lovell Banks, the Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence at the University of Maryland School of Law, whose ground-breaking work focuses on critical
race theory, citizenship, and law and popular culture. Before entering legal education in 1976, she worked as a civil rights lawyer in Mississippi, litigating voting rights and housing discrimination cases and providing technical assistance to black elected officials. During the 1979-1980 academic year she worked as a senior trial attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Los Angeles, litigating some of the early sexual harassment cases under the interim guidelines. Professor Banks’s most recent scholarship explores the continuing impact of gender, race, racial formation and racial hierarchies on the quest for social equality. She also writes about law, lawyers and legal issues in film and on television. Earlier publications include several articles and book chapters on legal and public health issues facing women infected with the HIV virus; and an empirical study of gender bias in law school classrooms. Her current research projects include a legal memoir exploring her and the nation’s changing views on race from the mid twentieth century through the beginning of the twenty-first century. Professor Banks served on the Editorial Board of the JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION and the advisory committee of the LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW. She is a former member of the Association of American Law Schools’ Executive Committee, and two-term Trustee of the Law School Admissions Council.
April 1, 2013 at 9:31 am
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Introducing Guest Blogger Chuck Whitehead
posted by Lawrence Cunningham
We are delighted to introduce as a guest blogger during April Charles K. Whitehead. Chuck is a Professor of Law at Cornell University Law School and is visiting this semester at Peking University. He specializes in the law relating to business organizations, capital markets, financial institutions and transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.
Before entering into teaching in 2006, at Boston University, Chuck held senior legal and business positions in the global financial services industry, practicing in New York, London, and Tokyo. He remains active in important global financial leadership groups, including those concerning derivative products, international arbitration and financial services.
Chuck is also a member of the American Law Institute and Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Examples of recent scholarship include:
* Lawyers and Fools: Lawyer-Directors in Public Corporations (Georgetown Law Journal 2013; co-authored with Lubomir Litov and Simone Sepe)
* The Goldilocks Approach: Financial Risk and Staged Regulation (Cornell Law Review 2012)
* Sandbagging: Default Rules and Acquisition Agreements (Delaware Journal of Corporate Law 2012)
* The Volcker Rule and Evolving Financial Markets (Harvard Business Law Review 2011)
* Destructive Coordination (Cornell Law Review 2011)
Chuck is a graduate of Cornell University and Columbia University Law School and served as clerk to the Hon. Ellsworth A. Van Graafeiland, U.S. Court of Appeals (2d Circuit).
Welcome to Concurring Opinions Chuck!
April 1, 2013 at 5:00 am
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Introducing Guest Blogger Claire Hill
posted by Lawrence Cunningham
We are delighted to introduce as a guest blogger during April Claire Hill. Claire holds the James L. Krusemark Chair in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, where she specializes in law and economics and the the law relating to contracts and corporations.
Berfore entering into teaching, Claire practiced at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in New York and Dickstein Shapiro in Washington D.C. She has taught at the law schools of Boston University, George Mason, Northwestern, Georgetown (where she was a Sloan Visiting Professor) and Chicago-Kent.
Claire is founding director of U. Minnesota Institute for Law and Rationality, and the associate director of its Institute for Law and Economics. She is also an affiliated faculty member of the University’s Center for Cognitive Sciences.
Co-editor of Research Handbook on the Economics of Corporate Law (Edward Elgar, 2012, with Brett McDonnell), Claire has published more than 50 law review articles including the following recent representative works:
* Limits of Disclosure (Seattle University Law Review 2013) (with Steven Davidoff)
* Bankers Behaving Badly? The Limits of Regulatory Reform, (Review of Banking and Financial Law 2012)
* Compromised Fiduciaries: Conflicts of Interest in Government and Business (Minnesota Law Review 2011) (with Richard Painter)
* Why Didn’t Subprime Investors Demand a (Much Larger) Lemons Premium? (Law and Contemporary Problems 2011)
* Concepts, Categories, and Compliance in the Regulatory State (Minnesota Law Review 2010) (with Kristin Hickman)
* Rationality in an Unjust World: A Research Agenda (Queen’s Law Journal 2009)
Claire has a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago, a J.D. (summa cum laude) from American University and an LL.M and J.S.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where she was an Olin Fellow.
Welcome to Concurring Opinions Claire!
April 1, 2013 at 5:00 am
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Introducing Guest Blogger Aaron Saiger
posted by Danielle Citron
I’m delighted to introduce Professor Aaron Saiger who will be guest blogging with us this month. Professor Saiger is a Professor of Law at Fordham Law School in New York City, where he has taught since 2003. He writes and teaches in the areas of administrative law and regulation, state and local government, education law, and property. Professor Saiger has been a Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-07) and a Research Fellow at Columbia Law School (2002-03). He received his J.D. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He was law clerk to the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court and the Honorable Douglas H. Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
His recent publications include:
Charter Schools, The Establishment Clause, and the Neoliberal Turn in Public Education, 34 Cardozo L. Rev. __ (forthcoming April 2013).
Religious Consumers and Institutional Challenges to American Public Schools, 1 Journal of Law, Religion, and State 180 (2012).
Changing the Conversation in Education Law: Political Geography and Virtual Schooling, 41 Journal of Law and Education 337 (2012).
Obama’s “Czars” for Domestic Policy and the Law of the White House Staff, 79 Fordham L. Rev. 2577 (2011).
The School District Boundary Problem, 42 Urban Lawyer 495 (2010).
Local Government without Tiebout, 41 Urban Lawyer 93 (2009).
March 2, 2013 at 1:28 am
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Introducing Guest Blogger Aaron Zelinsky
posted by Danielle Citron
I am thrilled to introduce my colleague Professor Aaron Zelinsky who, lucky for us at Maryland, is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Professor Zelinsky will be guest blogging with us this month. In fall 2012, he was an adjunct professor at the Peking University School of Transnational Law.
Prior to teaching, Aaron clerked for Judge Thomas B. Griffith on the D.C. Circuit. From 2010-2011 he served as special assistant to State Department Legal Adviser Harold Hongju Koh. In summer 2009 he was a foreign law clerk for Chief Justice Dorit Beinisch of the Israeli Supreme Court. Aaron holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal and an Associate Head Writer of the Yale Law Revue, and a B.A. in economics from Yale College. He has taught constitutional law, civil procedure, and foreign relations and national security law.
His recent publications include:
Misunderstanding the Anti-Federalist Papers: The Dangers of Availability, 65 Ala. L. Rev. 1067 (2012).
The Supreme Court (of Baseball), 121 Yale L.J. Online 126 (2011).
The Justice as Commissioner: Benching the Judge-Umpire Analogy, 113 Yale L.J. Online 113 (2010).
Practicing Law in the Obama Administration, 35 Yale J. Int’l L. Online 4 (2009) (co-authored with Harold Hongju Koh).
Terrorist Groups as Business Firms: A New Typological Framework, 21 Terrorism & Political Violence 327 (2009) (co-authored with Martin Shubik, peer-reviewed).
March 2, 2013 at 1:21 am
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(Re)Introducing Guest Blogger Ryan Calo
posted by Danielle Citron
I am delighted to welcome back Professor Ryan Calo as a guest blogger. Professor Calo is fantastic privacy scholar and interlocutor for all of us in the privacy community, so I’m excited to hear what he is working on. Professor Calo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington School of Law. He previously worked as a director at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) where he remains an affiliate scholar. Prior to CIS, Professor Calo was as an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Covington & Burling LLP and clerked for the Honorable R. Guy Cole on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. His work on drones, driverless cars, privacy, and other topics has appeared in various news outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and NPR.
Recent publications include:
Against Notice Skepticism in Privacy (and Elsewhere), 87 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1027-72 (2012).
The Drone as Privacy Catalyst, 64 Stan. L. Rev. Online 29 (2011).
The Boundaries of Privacy Harm, 86 Ind. L.J. 1131-62 (2011).
Open Robotics, 70 Md. L. Rev. 571-613 (2011).
March 2, 2013 at 1:02 am
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Introducing Guest Blogger Lea Shaver
posted by Danielle Citron
I am delighted to introduce Professor Lea Shaver who will be guest blogging with us this month. Professor Shaver is an Associate Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis. Prior to joining the McKinney faculty in 2012, Professor Shaver was a member of the faculty at Hofstra Law School and a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago. Professor Shaver was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa, where she contributed to litigation advancing the constitutional rights to housing, education, and water. She is the editor or coeditor of three books in intellectual property, innovation, and development published by Bloomsbury Academic. She ha
s taught Intellectual Property, Copyright, Patent Law, Transnational Law, Remedies, and Access to Knowledge. Her research focuses on intellectual property, innovation, access, and human rights.
Her recent publications include:
Illuminating Innovation: From Patent Racing to Patent War, 69:4 Wash. & Lee Law Review (2012).
Why are Generic Drugs Being Held Up in Transit? Intellectual Property Rights, Trade, and the Right to Health in Brazil and Beyond, J. of L. Medicine, and Ethics, Summer 2012. (Coauthored with Monica Guise, peer-reviewed.)
The Right to Science and Culture, 2010 Wisc. L. Rev. 121 (2010). Cited by the U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights in Report to the Human Rights Council, A/HC/20/26, 14 May 2012, adopted June 2012.
Lea Shaver & Caterina Sganga, The Right to Take Part in Cultural Life: On Copyright and Human Rights, 27 Wisc. Int¹l L. J. 637 (2009).
January 31, 2013 at 12:26 pm
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Welcoming Back Guest Blogger Mary Anne Franks!
posted by Danielle Citron
I am thrilled to welcome back Professor Mary Anne Franks as a guest blogger–I am such a huge fan of her work so it is an extra special thrill for me to have her back to CoOp. Professor Franks is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law, where she teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, family law, and a seminar on bias. She holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a D.Phil. and M.Phil. from Oxford University, where she studied on a Rhodes scholarship. She has also taught at Harvard University and the University of Chicago Law School. Her recent publications include When Bad Speech Does Good, Lies, Damned Lies, and Judicial Empathy, and Sexual Harassment 2.0. Professor Franks is currently working with a group of lawyers, scholars, and activists to develop effective legal approaches to revenge porn and other forms of non-consensual sexual use. The title of her latest project is Against Mercy: Automated Law Enforcement as Enlightenment.
January 31, 2013 at 11:58 am
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Introducing Guest Blogger William Reynolds
posted by Danielle Citron
I’m excited to introduce my colleague Professor William Reynolds who will be guest blogging with us this month. Professor Reynolds is the Jacob A. France Professor of Judicial Process at the University of Maryland School of Law. In 2011, he was voted Teacher of the Year by the Student Bar Association. In 2006, he won the National Award for Public Service from the National Child Support Enforcement Association.
Professor Reynolds has taught more than two dozen subjects. In recent years, he has taught Antitrust, Art Law, Business Associations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Conflict of Laws, European Union Law, International Business Transactions, and Professional Responsibility.
His scholarship has primarily been in the areas of appellate courts, conflict of laws, and, in recent years, electronic contracting. Professor Reynolds has written in many other fields as well, including antitrust, civil rights, constitutional law, family law, legal ethics, and legal history. He has written or co-authored five books: Judicial Process in a Nutshell, Understanding Conflict of Laws, Cases and Materials on Conflict of Laws, The Full Faith and Credit Clause, and Injustice on Appeal (forthcoming). Professor Reynolds has been published in many leading journals, including the Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, Texas, and Tulane law reviews, and The American journal of International Law and The Business Lawyer.
Following law school, Professor Reynolds served as a law clerk for Hon. Frank Kaufman (D. Md.); he joined the Maryland faculty in 1971. He is a Life Member of the American Law Institute, the American Bar Endowment, and the Maryland Bar Endowment. He is Of Counsel to DLA Piper LLP (US), and he has served as an expert witness in both domestic and international litigation concerning questions of antitrust, legal ethics, and aspects of Maryland law. Professor Reynolds often lectures on child support enforcement issues. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Maryland Law Institute.
His recent work includes:
Understanding Conflict of Laws (4th ed. forthcoming 2013) (with William M. Richman).
Injustice on Appeal: The United States Courts of Appeal in Crisis (forthcoming 2012) (with William Richman).
A Case Study in the Superiority of the Purposive Approach to Statutory Interpretation:Bruesewitz v. Wyeth, 64 South Carolina Law Review (forthcoming 2013) (with Donald Gifford and Andrew M. Murad).
From Lord Coke to Internet Privacy: The Past, Present, and Future of Electronic Contracting, Maryland Law Review (forthcoming 2012) (with Juliet Moringiello).
Back to the Future in Law Schools, 70 Maryland Law Review 451 (2011).
Survey of the Law of Cyberspace: Electronic Contracting Cases 2009-2010, 66 Business Lawyer 175 (2010) (with Juliet Moringiello).
What’s Software Got To Do With It? The ALI Principles of the Law of Software Contracting, 84 Tulane Law Review 1541 (2010) (with Juliet M. Moringiello).
December 31, 2012 at 3:03 pm
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Introducing Guest Blogger Bruce Boyden
posted by Danielle Citron
I’m thrilled to welcome back Professor Bruce Boyden as a guest blogger. Professor Boyden is an Assistant Professor at Marquette University School of Law where he teaches and writes in the areas of copyright, Internet law, privacy, legal history, and civil procedure. His scholarship focuses on the ways in which law adapts to sudden change in the technological, social, or economic landscape.
Prior to joining the faculty at Marquette, Professor Boyden was a visiting professor at Washington & Lee University School of Law and at Michigan State University College of Law. Before that, he was in private practice for several years with the law firm Proskauer Rose LLP, where his practice focused on copyright, digital rights management, privacy, and Internet law. Professor Boyden is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism. He received his M.A. in history from Northwestern University and his B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Arkansas in history and philosophy.
His recent work includes:
Can a Computer Intercept Your Email?, 34 Cardozo L. Rev. 669 (2012).
Oversharing: Facebook Discovery and the Unbearable Sameness of Internet Law, 65 Ark. L. Rev. 39 (2012).
Constitutional Safety Valve: The Privileges or Immunities Clause and Status Regimes in a Federalist System, 62 Ala. L. Rev. 111 (2011).
Games and Other Uncopyrightable Systems, 18 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 439 (2011).
Privacy of Electronic Communications, in Proskauer on Privacy (PLI 2011).
December 31, 2012 at 2:55 pm
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Introducing Guest Blogger Vivian E. Hamilton
posted by Solangel Maldonado
I am delighted to welcome Professor Vivian E. Hamilton who will be blogging with us this month. Professor Hamilton is an Associate Professor of Law at William & Mary School of Law where she teaches Civil Procedure, Family Law, and The Constitution and the Family. Her scholarship has explored the religious foundations of U.S. family law, the democratic state’s obligations to its immature citizens, and the implications of insights from cognitive and developmental neuroscience on civil policies affecting the rights of adolescents and emerging adults.
Prof. Hamilton is the Immediate Past Chair of the AALS Section on Family and Juvenile Law, and has chaired the Section’s Scholarship Review Program. She serves on the boards of ACLU-Virginia and the Foundation of the Williamsburg Public Library.
She holds degrees from Yale College and Harvard Law School, where she was Articles Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She clerked for Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Professor Hamilton’s recent publications include:
Road Rules and Rights: The Irreconcilable Pursuits of Adolescent Life, Liberty, . . . and Licensure (Work-in-Progress).
The Age of Marital Capacity: Reconsidering Civil Recognition of Adolescent Marriage, 92 Boston U. L. Rev. 1773 (2012).
Democratic Inclusion, Cognitive Development, and the Age of Electoral Majority, 77 Brooklyn L. Rev. 1 (2012).
Immature Citizens and the State, 2010 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 100.
You can find her SSRN author page here.
December 30, 2012 at 4:44 pm
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