Lots of smart and insightful people have commented on the Supreme Court decisions yesterday (on Affirmative Action and Internet filtering funding in particular).  One worth reading: Philip Greenspun.  Particularly on matters of education, Prof. Greenspun does not fail to provoke.  There’s often a good measure of satire in there as well, but I’m not sure…

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The Berkman fellows are hot today.  Jim Moore has a terrific, touching, far-reaching piece, one in a series of essays about the intersection of personal relationships and global politics.  Just incidentally, one of the things that I think Jim is best at is bringing the ethos and the best insights of the environmental community to…

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Chris Lydon’s post on Emerson is worthy of the man himself. 

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This morning, the last morning, we’re wrapping up PIL2003 with a conclusion of the litigation topics of yesterday and then a brief segment on privacy.  Alex Merino, summer intern extraordinaire, kept the notes here.

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Today, Thursday, June 19, 2003, Prof. Nesson will take us through some of the emerging issues related to practicing as a litigator in a digital era.  This is Day 4 of PIL2003 at HLS.  He starts by picking up on the hypo with which he left the class yesterday.  If you’re a policy-maker in a…

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Today, Wednesday, is the third day of our PIL2003 version of Internet Law, taught here on the Harvard Law School campus.  PIL is primarily about continuing education for lawyers.  If you’re admitted to the bar of a state that has a requirement of “continuining legal education,” you need to head back to class somewhere each…

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Donna blogged this morning’s session of digital music in her inimitable style.  She definitely hit the high points, and then some.

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Today, we’re in the Vorenberg Classroom on the Harvard Law School Campus for PIL 2003.  Our class Web site is available online.  Jonathan Zittrain is talking about jurisdiction.  Here are some notes. The day opens with John Perry Barlow‘s classic Declaration of Independence for Cyberspace, which we often use to open the conversation of Net law.  One of the…

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Two ideas as a follow-up to the legal panel at Jupiter’s quite good conference today on business and blogs: * Reed Smith, a law firm, enables Denise Howell to publish her excellent legal weblog, Bag and Baggage, which I read regularly.  Donna has a good quote from Mark Young, the panel moderator: “Can I say…

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I’m now yet another blogging voice at the Jupiter Conference on blogs and business.  It’s a cool crowd here, with lots of the people I’ve read but never met, at the Sheraton Boston.  Elizabeth Spiers from Gawker was just talking — she’s terrific, funny, worth listening to (as well as reading).  I’m sitting here with my…

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Sadly, I was traveling and in meetings and missed the session yesterday with Prof. Volokh and others about blogs and academia.  A transcript, I was glad to see, has been posted.  A few ideas that caught my attention: * The moderator, David Glenn, noted: “Blogs are vastly cheaper and more accessible than academic journals, yet they…

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By a vote of 3-2, led by Chairman Michael Powell, the FCC has ruled that big media conglomerates to expand their reach yet further by owning more stations.  A detailed report is expected next week. Also, a wonderful picture of the current media landscape, via Donna via Larry.

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