See Robert McMillan, "How GitHub Helps You Hack the Government", Wired Magazine, 01.09.13, 6:30 AM at http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/01/hack-the-government/. Is this the leading edge of change in how regulations are…
Cary Coglianese has posted an interesting discussion on RegBlog, "When is a Federal Agency not a Federal Agency?". Opening paragraphs: As the size and scope of government has expanded over the last century, so too has the web of…
Types of regulatory strategies, and does the third type work?
RegBlog summarizes a new paper by Anil Doshi (Harvard Business School), Glen Dowell (Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management), and Michael W. Toffel (Harvard Business School), "How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure". The…
USA to Cape Town 10/01/12
We boarded the plane at 6:00am, the first 6:00am flight of three that we have this week. After we all acknowledged that no one is normal at 6:00am (Nicole throwing away perfectly good cheese, Chris refusing to eat,…
Saturday, March 24, 2012 – Today we visited the Kumasi Children’s Home, which is a local orphanage here in Kumasi. This was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever had to emotionally endure. The conditions of the place were unlike any…
The citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, declared independence from Great Britain a full year before the Declaration of Independence was written. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, originally called the resolution…
Wondering if you can use Westlaw this summer? Password extension for acceptable uses is available at www.lawschool.westlaw.com. Find the button above on the Westlaw landing page (see bottom right of page) and click GO. Follow the…
Thar’s Gold in them Thar Asteroids! But Who Owns It?
If you managed to snag an asteroid and tow it back to Earth, is it yours? What are the laws about space resources? Is Space Law the final frontier? You may laugh, but this science fiction movie plot is coming … Continue…