Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity

Covers both the ways law governs creative endeavors and the ways creativity informs the practice of law.

Author: Peter Friedman is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. He also authors What Is Fair Use?

Blawg Related Categories: University of Detroit Mercy • Law Professor • Legal Research and Writing

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Jimmy Cliff: Sitting in Guantanamo Limbo
The beginning of the end of a legal nightmare?
Sanity is beginning to take hold once again in our country’s legal institutions. Judge Richard J. Leon is no wild eyed liberal. He was appointed as a judge by George W. Bush in 2002. Back…
I dont know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
From MSNBC: John McCain may have lost the presidential election to Barack Obama, but his campaign seems absolutely determined not to lose to Jackson Browne. The singer/songwriter sued McCain in August after the Republican candidate…
If you’re a bitter lawyer, there’s a site for you.
I had my down days in nearly twelve years of practice, but it didn’t (I hope) embitter me. There are a lot of bitter lawyers out there, though. Many of them are bitter because they…
Lewis Hyde: remaking copyright by recovering the past
Lewis Hyde is one of the great, and almost entirely unknown, U.S. geniuses. According to this past week’s New York Times Magazine, “David Foster Wallace called him ‘one of our true superstars of nonfiction.’ Hyde’s…
If you can’t say it clearly, you aren’t thinking it clearly.
At Language Log, Geoffrey K. Pullum makes a crucial point in criticizing Sarah Palin’s inchoherence: I think being so utterly unable to explain what one wants to say is truly and reasonably regarded as a…
Question authority, and then question those questioning authority
It may seem off topic to engage in a prediction regarding a sports event, but let it be heard here first — this weekend Michigan will beat Ohio State in football. In fact, you are…
McElhaney on being a good writer and speaker: let the story pick the words. Glass: and then explain the point.
How do you do what I’ve been writing about — making your thinking clear by avoiding empty phrases that don’t address the really dire questions you face? My former Case Western Reserve colleague Jim McElhaney,…
Surely you’re joking. I can tell by that ridiculous price.
On Friday I mentioned the case of a radio contest winner who successfully sued the radio station for the value of a Renaul Clio after she’d won a contest offering the car to the contest’s…
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