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29 Jan 2010, 7:49 am by pfriedman
One of the less noticed parts of last week’s Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court overturning precedent that had supported over 100 years of congressional restrictions on corporate campaign contributions was precisely the question of the strength of precedent. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 8:56 am by pfriedman
From the Times of London, the obituary of Ian Macneil, a lawyer, law professor, and landlord who embodied the ideal that ownership may be more about proprietorship than about sucking every last dollar (or pound) out of your property: Ian Macneil, 46th chief of the Clan Macneil and 26th Macneil of Barra, was a much-respected American-born contract lawyer who gave his tenants and neighbours on the Outer Hebridean island of Barra security of tenure on the most favourable contract terms… [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 7:42 am by pfriedman
I have a friend, a sculptor, who has sold several of his pieces as public art. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 9:51 am
Truly only Franz Kafka could do justice to some of the questions that arise in our justice system. [read post]
3 May 2010, 6:52 pm by pfriedman
40 years ago today (May 4) I was 10 years old, sitting at home, when I heard about something I thought unthinkable that had just happened about 40 miles away from my home. [read post]
11 Jul 2009, 11:05 am
Manny Garcia, who actually shot the photo at issue in the lawsuit between Shepard Fairey and the Associated Press — the photo that allegedly was the source of Shepard Fairey’s Obama Hope poster — is intervening in that lawsuit on the grounds that he, not AP, owns the copyright in the photo. [read post]
28 Oct 2009, 10:48 am
One of the problems of our legal system I’ve written about is the way its expense has conferred inordinate weight on sheer wealth. [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 5:43 am by pfriedman
I have emphasized again and again the difficulties law faces when there are profound changes in the material reality of our lives, including, for example, demand for new sources of energy. [read post]
9 Sep 2011, 6:01 am by pfriedman
On September 15 at 6pm I’ll be speaking at SPACES on the interrelationships of art, law, and technology. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 7:08 am by pfriedman
Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter recently gave the commencement address at Harvard. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 12:41 pm by pfriedman
I’ve made plain my disdain for the ways law schools neglect what anyone outside law school faculties would presume is the central purpose of law schools — to train law students how to be lawyers. [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 8:40 am
One of these days we’ll learn what the KLF long ago tried to teach us about pop music: “Every Number One song ever written is only made up from bits from other songs. [read post]