This is a default category that holds all the entries that I have failed to categorize properly! I hope to get this list down to zero over time.
Worries might be too strong a word. Some things that I wonder about with Weblogs: 1) Is more speech necessarily better (think also about what Habermas, Sunstein, Michelman et al. have said about similar questions)? 2) Is more speech of the sort that blogs enables necessarily better? 3) Can people who use the Net really sort through … Read more
The OSCOM conference organizers have discovered one of the Berkman Center’s not-so-secret assets: the live-blogging capacity of Donna Wentworth. (She’s not alone in this business among the BCIS team, nor alone in being good at it, as Wendy seems to be hooked and gaining traction, too!).
Check out the OSCOM-3 Web site. Rumor has it some terrific thinkers will have prominent speaking roles. I’m also hoping that we can make some progress on thinking through sustainable open source business models.
The first of the iLaw Webcasts is today, 4:00 p.m. Rio time. It’ll be Internet seer and Berkman fellow John Perry Barlow and Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil. They promise to make some interesting watching. It’s free and open. Tune in here.
The Berkman Center today, unlike the rest of the world, is very quiet. Students are on Spring Break. Most of the staff and faculty are in Rio at iLaw, our week-long extravaganza for lawyers and non-lawyers alike. (BTW, one session of iLaw per day will be Webcast. No special access needed to watch it. Thanks to … Read more
Things in international law are often incredibly hard to divine. It’s a fair and open question — “colorable”, as a lawyer might say — whether the US military action in Iraq is legal or illegal under international law. Jon Bonne of MSNBC — not a lawyer, but one of the smartest and most insightful people I’ve ever met and … Read more
That Scalia story is here.
The AP this morning quotes Justice Scalia as saying: “The Constitution just sets minimums,” Scalia said. “Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires.” Did I hear that right?
Christopher Lydon’s new radio series debuted on WGBH in Boston this weekend and hit lots of other media markets across the country through PRI distribution. It’s a fantastic, globally-focused, wide-ranging series. He and his crack team, led by Mary McGrath, have also taken to the Net with real commitment to understanding and using the tech. … Read more
Charles Ogletree, Johnnie Cochran and other leading litigators are in the midst of a campaign to get reparations payments going. It will be interesting to see how juries or other decision makers will quantify any harms they may hold to have occurred (seems like there’s little debate that the bad things happened; just questions of how … Read more