Personally, I bought the hard copy (I like bound books more than stacks of copy paper), but kudos go out to Jon Zittrain for putting his brand new hot-off-the-press book on SSRN. I’ve made the point before that many authors like reaching the public as much as making money- and often these aren’t mutually […]

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New and upcoming things:
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The excellent IP team at American University’s Washington College of Law prompts me to remind everyone that the annual symposium titled “IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections” is just around the corner.  The symposium will take place on Friday, April 4, at the WCL campus, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC, Room 528, 10am-4pm.  […]

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The PR about this conference is going out way late, so I volunteered to multiply the message a bit:
Next Friday, February 8, Pitt Law is hosting a terrific one-day symposium titled “The 21st Century Brain: Why It Matters for the Academic and Political Worlds.”  If you’re in the area, please try to stop by.
The keynote […]

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Like several other folks who blog, I went up to Yale’s Reputation Economies conference last weekend. Plenty of others have offered thoughts about the conference (including Frank here). Eric Goldman has his own thoughts and a good list of links to other blogs and Rebecca Tushnet very helpfully posted panel-by-panel summaries.
It was an […]

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For at least a few years, I’ve had an interest (that I have yet to write on) in the problems of adapting works of intellectual property. E.g. moving from a particular book to a film, from a film to a video game, or from a video game to a film or book. […]

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A note for law faculty attending the upcoming AALS conference in Washington, DC:  The gang at Prawfsblawg and Concurring Opinions tell me that a lawprof blogger gathering has been arranged for Wednesday evening, January 3, at Cloud, One DuPont Circle at New Hampshire.  Festivities begin at 9 p.m.  I’ll see you there.
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My law school will be sponsoring a “teach-in” on issues raised by Guantanamo Bay detentions tomorrow, Oct. 5. Many law schools are broadcasting the event, and you can also tune in the webcast.
Rather coincidentally, today there was a quite troubling interview with John Yoo on NPR. Yoo repeatedly insisted that, […]

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The Anonymous Lawyer misses the point of SOaP. And blunders in the process. Why not a zillion slithering deadly reptiles in the halls of a law firm? Because SOaP reminds people of bad disaster movies; terror amid billable hours reminds people (me, anyway) of an unimaginably horrible real episode.
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For intellectual property academics:
This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting a proposal to present at the Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium 2006 comes all too soon — next Thursday, June 1. WIPIP 2006 will be held at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law on Friday and Saturday, October 6-7, 2006. […]

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NHL and NBA playoffs continue, and the NFL just concluded the annual orgy of miscalculation that is the draft. But the sport that dwarfs them all is about to crown a champion again, and today was a red-letter day for American fans. US men’s national soccer team coach Bruce Arena named his roster […]

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Tomorrow, Lewis & Clark Law School (where I teach) will host a conference entitled “Open Access Publishing and the Future of Legal Scholarship.” It’s the second annual Spring Symposium for the Lewis & Clark Law Review. In addition to the materials you’ll find at the web page for the conference itself, I’ve created […]

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Rosa Brooks recently kicked up some fine discussion at LawCulture (with this post) about writing for law reviews, contrasting it with writing for other types of publishing outlets. Her post sparked reactions at PrawfsBlawg (from Ethan Leib, Paul Horwitz, and Mark Fenster) and Concurring Opinions (from Dan Solove). And she followed up with […]

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This past weekend, I went to St. Louis and presented a paper at a very analog intellectual property law conference. A number of us sat around in a law school classroom and talked to one another for a while. There were some new ideas and some old ones. Good ideas and […]

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I have assembled a rough-and-ready blog to house information about upcoming conferences, colloquia, lectures, and related events in the scholarly IP; IT; and internet law, policy, and research domains.
The site has a majestic title: IP and IT Conferences, and it is up at http://madisonian.net/conferences/. It has its own RSS feed, which makes it […]

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One idea that came out of this weekend’s WIPIP (Works-in-Progress-Intellectual-Property) Colloquium at Washington University in St. Louis was an online calendar of future academic IP/IT/Internet law-and-policy conferences and colloquia. I’m working on putting something together here.
UPDATE: And I’m also working on a separate blog dedicated to this. If you know WordPress or […]

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