Michael Froomkin notes that he’s going to Boston to participate in a BC Law conference on Owning Standards. The conference lineup looks excellent. I hope that someone blogs the presentations.
One thing that looks like it’s missing from the list of papers (perhaps it’s there, but I’ve only looked at the titles): The [...]

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A little National Law Journal article about Wednesday’s argument in the eBay case, here.
I stand by my assessment in my earlier exchange with Mike: it’s a blockbuster, come what may.
UPDATE 1: And an interesting piece from Fortune magazine.
UPDATE 2: And this from c|net news.
UPDATE 3: The A.P. story.
UPDATE 4: Coverage of today’s [...]

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Thanks to Matt Bodie and this post, I enjoyed a lazy Sunday watching and rewatching video shorts!

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Rebecca Tushnet does such a remarkable job of blogging summaries of conference presentations that I almost feel as if I attended the event. Here are links to her summaries of the presentations and comments at the recent IP/ Gender: The Unmapped Connections, held at the American University Washington College of Law:
Dan Burk’s presentation
Carys Craig’s [...]

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Christine at the Glom points to Bainbridge on prediction markets, but Bainbridge is really and simply pointing to Chris Masse, who has a wealth of perspective to bring to bear on when crowds are wise. Since I’m interested in crowds and have learned a lot from reading Chris’s site and the materials he’s collected, [...]

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Empirical Legal Studies will be hosting a blog forum on Institutional Review Boards, beginning next Monday (March 27).

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Via Siva, here is Ben Vershbow on the future of the book, as brought to you by Google and Amazon. First a long quotation, then a comment. More below the jump

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Orin Kerr is hosting an enlightening conversation about the wisdom of law professors banning laptops from their classrooms. Dan Solove’s perspective probably comes closest to my own, but the discussion (and the comments come from law students as well as faculty) reveals a number of interesting divisions. I use a little primitive law-and-economics [...]

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NYU is hosting a symposium on fair use at the end of April. Bill Patry thinks that the lineup of speakers is sufficiently one-sided that the program risks preaching to the converted. It may even be more harmful than helpful.
I see his point in the abstract; I don’t I buy it in this [...]

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David Zaring blogs the NYT obit of James O. Freedman, the former president of Dartmouth, of Iowa, and the former UPenn law dean.
The Times line that caught my eye:
“When he stepped down in 1998, a professor of religion at Dartmouth, Susan Ackerman, said he had “upped the intellectual ante” at the college.”

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Wired magazine goes to the movies this month, interviewing AMC Entertainment CEO Peter Brown:
In January, director Steven Soderbergh and billionaire producer Mark Cuban tried to release the film Bubble on DVD the same week it hit the big screen. Most theater chains froze them out. Industry insiders say the simultaneous availability of first-run tickets and [...]

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I heard Bud Trillin before I read him. He spoke — performed what amounted to a standup routine, really — at the celebration of Yale’s tercentennial in New Haven in the Spring of 2001, and I was there to watch the gig. As a reader, I’ve been in catchup mode ever since.
It pains [...]

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According to the WSJ Law Blog, which reads the San Francisco Daily Journal, GMU lawprof Kimberly Moore is on her way to the Federal Circuit bench. The Law Blog reports that California IP lawyers are disappointed that local federal judge Ron Whyte didn’t get the appointment; it doesn’t report that a lot of IP [...]

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Interest in law-and-sociology and law-and-anthropology research is growing among among law faculty. This is certaintly true in my corner of intellectual property law; read the presentations and comments from the recent Cultural Environmentalism conference at Stanford (particularly those by Rebecca Tushnet and Julie Cohen) for examples of what ethnography might do. Interest in [...]

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Congratulations to Lydia Loren on her appointment as interim dean at Lewis & Clark Law School!

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The very excellent recent symposium at Lewis & Clark Law School on open access publishing for legal scholarship is now online in a series of podcasts. That page includes links to draft papers and to the speakers’ slides.

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Elmore Leonard has a blog, and he’s posted his Ten Rules of Writing. Lawyers and law students take note. These are more relevant to you than you may think:
By ELMORE LEONARD
These are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me [...]

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MPAA head Dan Glickman delivered the annual State of the Industry talk to the Showest convention in Las Vegas about a week ago. I’ve clipped some pieces from his prepared remarks. The rhetoric is, hmmm, a bit confused. Some of this — the anti-piracy rhetoric — is familiar territory. Some of [...]

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Donald Norman, psychologist and EE major and author of The Design of Everyday Things, gives an interview to Ambidextrous magazine on personality, design, and technology. A snippet:
I think physicality offers a tremendous amount to us. I think what happened during the computer revolution – and this was true of the design world as well [...]

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Today’s WSJ carries a story about the mysteries of the FDA’s process for approving new drug names.
The FDA’s scrutiny, an odd corner of the federal bureaucracy where language meets safety, is a growing problem for drug companies. They spend as much as $1 million per product making up, checking and registering words like Lipitor, Prozac [...]

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