Category Archives: Law

Comments on AALS panel on 75th Anniversary of the FRCP

As noted a couple of days ago, I watched an excellent panel at the annual conference of the Association of American Law Schools noting the 75th anniversary of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The panel was chock full of procedural luminaries, from the moderator — Prof. Arthur R. Miller of Harvard — to its attendees, […]

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Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest

Despite the slings and arrows of Hurricane Irene hitting Washington a week ago, the recent Global Congress on Intellectual Property Law and the Public Interest has produced an important document calling for more transparency and public participation in the crafting of IP law.The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest is an important step […]

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New article on SSRN: “Civil Procedures for a World of Shared and User-Generated Content”

I’ve posted a draft of my forthcoming article Civil Procedures for a World of Shared and User-Generated Content to SSRN. It’ll appear in print in the University of Louisville Law Review. Here’s the abstract: Scholars often focus on the substance of copyrights as opposed to the procedures used to enforce them.  Yet copyright enforcement procedures […]

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