Twice in the past few days I’ve been asked to sign up for Continuing Legal Education (CLE). Sadly, I have to ‘graduate’ first. Oops. Still… each was interesting:
The Friday CLE opportunity was at Columbia’s symposium on Fair Use. Mike Madison has a good summary of the symposium, as part of a broader post on Fair [...]
GTD Kitteh! by Karin Dalziel. License:
I’m doing a research project right now for a faculty member, and I’ve finally found the research software that I’ve wanted since my high school history teacher taught me to take great notes (good) on note cards (bad). The software is Zotero.
Zotero lets me take notes in a structured [...]
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Passing on an announce for other tech-interested proto-lawyers:
The Software Freedom Law Center is currently seeking legal interns to join the staff this summer. Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in software freedom and should be conversant in legal and technical concepts related to free and open source software, but no specific prior course of study [...]
… is a class that drowns you in both history and state of the art for an hour and a half, and then spends half an hour challenging you to think about what comes next. And all of it (implicitly and explicitly) screaming at you that This Really, Really Matters. I left exhausted, and if [...]
Two of my classes this semester have class wikis:
Computers, Privacy, and the Constitution
Telecommunications
That would be two more than I’ve ever had before.
There are a few different spins you could put on this development. Along the student-faculty axis, it is putting more control in the hands of students. This is probably consistent with the institutional mission [...]
Jump for Joy, by bingbin, used under a CC-BY license
That is about how I’m feeling right at the moment. Last exam done. Not going to be my finest semester (job search was unexpectedly distracting, and frankly I got a bit cocky about copyright and patent, which I paid for come end of semester) but not [...]
so close: past exams from your patent prof have asked that you do analysis on a case which is pending before the courts, so you decide to search patent blogs for interesting cases which are before the courts. And lo and behold, one of the cases you saw on the patent blogs was on the [...]
This Post In A Nutshell (aka, the Murray Version)
No one should be surprised that social network users can’t ‘vote with their feet,’ because most users give up a portion of their autonomy when they choose to use web services. This post will suggest that protecting autonomy is desirable and should be designed in to software, [...]
This year, I’m co-president of the Columbia Law School Society for Law, Science, and Technology (aka CLS SLST); after many moons of a very static, very outdated page, I finally got my act together and got up a wordpress installation. Many thanks to Stuart Sierra for helping out, to the various other organizations who helped [...]
