Urs Gasser, prepping to head out to a Gruter Institute event at Squaw Valley (tough life), wants to know if you agree: “I suggest that in-depth and cross-disciplinary research in the field of law & emotion will soon be complemented by a discussion about what we might call ’emotional legal design’, i.e., a discourse about … Read more
This morning, we are hosting an eminent group of academics here at Harvard Law School for a symposium on blogging and legal scholarship. Prof. Paul Caron is leading off right now. You can tune in to the webcast, if you are not local to Cambridge. (If you needed any further incentive to watch, Prof. Michael … Read more
There’s a fascinating story to unravel related to the made-up account of a UMass student who claimed to have gotten a visit from the Department of Homeland Security as a result of having borrowed Mao’s Little Red Book via interlibrary loan. After a fair amount of ink on the matter, the student admitted recently that … Read more
In Cyberlaw and the Global Economy, a fall course at HLS, we study the issue of contracting in cyberspace — when clickwrap contracts are enforced, what provisions the courts sometimes refuse to enforce, and the like. A New York court has just added to the relevant caselaw by refusing to enforce a forum selection clause in … Read more
One of the things that bothers me about US Internet law and policy is the various definitions of “ISP” in law and policy (compare DMCA to CDA, e.g.). Even within the DMCA there is discrepancy. It will be interesting to see how this case impacts the ISP liability regime — interesting because of the facts … Read more