Category Archives: General

I am starting work on a new Slate series called “Lawbreaking in America,” with Dahlia Lithwick as editor.

Chicken meets Blue Bear

Atari’s Missile Command is still the scariest game ever.

Here is a great, indeed must-read paper on the 19th century problem of “Patent Sharks.”

Maybe I’m just getting old or watching too many movies, but I think right now is something, if not a golden age, at least some kind of bronze age, and at least not the cheese age people my age have … Continue reading →

Book review in the Guardian.  Also, tomorrow I’m taping a show on NPR’s On the Media with Brooke Gladstone.

Josh Lerner from Harvard Business School came through Columbia and our IP workshop today. Great presenter. He did a paper on patents on the finance patents, which, he finds, are litigated at about 27x the rate of normal patents. And … Continue reading →

Zephyr Teachout and I are trying to write a story that guesses what the future of political technology will be. It’s hard!  It is way easier to write about these things are fiction, because then you assert matters with confidence.  … Continue reading →

Not really a big deal, but I noticed reaching 10,000 downloads on SSRN today. The % of those papers that were actually read — well that’s another story. Law review articles aren’t much read — but they when they are … Continue reading →