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25 Dec 2009, 4:02 pm by pfriedman
Michael Gerson: A child of questionable parentage, born into humble circumstances, in a provincial backwater, begins a short life that ends in an execution. [read post]
2 Jul 2009, 7:06 am
Ever since the Bernie Madoff scandal broke, I’ve wondered: was the SEC paid off? [read post]
5 Jun 2009, 8:45 am
Britain’s Supreme Court of Judicature has concluded that Proctor & Gamble owes $160 million in taxes becase Pringles are either “potato chips” or “similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour. [read post]
4 Nov 2009, 7:02 am
I’m not Hannah Arendt’s biggest fan, but the prominence she gave to “banality of evil” is an accomplishment that ought to be honored through the ages. [read post]
24 Dec 2009, 4:58 am by pfriedman
My favorite religious story from childhood turns out, no surprise, to be a law story. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 3:42 am by pfriedman
I have posted on SSRN a copy of an article entitled “What is a Judicial Author? [read post]
28 Jan 2012, 10:28 pm by pfriedman
Michalis Pichler: Statements on Appropriation (2009)  1. if a book paraphrases one explicit historical or contemporary predecessor in title, style and/or content, this technique is what I would call a “greatest hit” 2. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 9:56 am by pfriedman
In a call for a National Digital Library, and borrowing heavily from Lewis Hyde’s Common as Air, Robert Darnton contrasts 18th Century views on the free exchange of information with certain views today: I know: the devil can cite Jefferson. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 10:24 am by pfriedman
From Blog for Profit, a terrific post explaining that there are experts, but also that experts aren’t what people often want experts to be — people with the all right answers to  questions in their areas of expertise: This is the big myth of “the expert”. [read post]
1 Nov 2009, 6:33 pm
Behind all the shouting about Shepard Fairey and the Obama Hope poster, there is, as I’ve emphasized again and again, a real failure to contend with our conceptions of creativity and originality. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 8:03 am by pfriedman
You could write a column entitled “When it comes to songwriting, there’s a fine line between inspiration and plagiarism” any day of the week, and I believe I have, though I only stole the idea from the KLF (or Negativland or Bob Dylan, or Jim Jarmusch or Jonathan Lethem or David Shields or  David Markson or Shepard Fairey or . . . ) [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 3:57 am
A student complained to me yesterday that he was being penalized on his law exam because he didn’t know as much about the world as other people. [read post]
15 Jun 2009, 8:27 am
I write again and again about how changing technologies clash with law based on old technologies, but this is a particularly appalling example. [read post]
16 Jun 2009, 12:56 pm
Justin Hughes, Of World Music and Sovereign States, Professors and the Formation of Legal Norms, 35 LOY. [read post]
19 Jul 2010, 2:12 pm by pfriedman
Art genuinely does have the power to advance justice. [read post]