Discourse.net
Features news, commentary and analysis of a variety of mainly legal and political topics mixed with personal musings.
Author: Law professor Michael Froomkin teaches at the University of Miami School of Law and is one of the founding editors of ICANN Watch.
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Recent Posts from Discourse.net
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Happy 4th of July
I’m out today. via SFDB Ecard Of The Day by South Florida Daily Blog Politically correct update: It’s been suggested to me that the message of the card above is the pernicious “wouldn’t it be…
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Good Advice for Edgy Demos in Talks: Be Patient
This guest posting ex-cypherpunk mordaxus at Emergent Chaos gets how judges think. And uses the word “gedanken” properly. Must be someone I know. The “gedanken” limits the field some too. Emergent Chaos: The Punch Line…
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An Idea That is Growing on Me
As I prepare next year’s lecture notes, this idea keeps growing on me. But if it failed, it would fail horribly…. One of my favorite professors in college was a self-confessed liar. I guess that…
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Lori Drew's Conviction Overturned
Lori Drew’s conviction overturned: A classic case of ugly facts but even uglier legal arguments appears to have (finally) concluded with the legally correct result. This case mattered, because the government’s legal theory would have…
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Some More Facts About Miami Law's Over-Enrollment
I’ve been keeping an eye on the online coverage (and blog postings) regarding UM’s recent offer of a public interest scholarship to students who defer a year. Little of it has been in any way…
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New Lawyer Salary Distribution Has a New Shape
Bill Henderson, Empirical Legal Studies: The End of an Era: the Bi-Modal Distribution for the Class of 2008: Of the 22,305 law school graduates in NALP’s sample (over half of all 2008 graduates), a remarkable…
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Someone Could Make Money on This
There’s clearly a business model here for a multi-national legal partnership willing to provide this service at commodity prices. Tales from the encrypt: the secrets of data protection | Technology | guardian.co.uk But what if…
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Why I'm Waiting to Install Firefox 3.5
I'm reluctant to upgrade to Firefox 3.5 because so many of my extentions are incompatible Enabled Extensions: [28] Adblock Plus 1.0.2 - Ads were yesterday! PASS Auto Copy 0.9.7 - Copies selected text to the…
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Pressures Students Studying for the Bar Don't Need
Miami Herald, FIU graduate robbed at gunpoint on campus A recent Florida International University graduate, cramming for his Florida Bar law exam, was robbed at gunpoint of his laptop outside the school’s Green Library, FIU…
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More Dan Links
Columbia Journalism Review (!), L’Affaire Froomkin, as Told by Froomkin Marcy Wheeler’s great liveblog of Jay Rosen interview wit Dan at the PDF meeting in New York (best quote, “Not offending people is not a…