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Property rights and the Apple iPhone case
What do you think of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s decision to fight a court order requiring Apple to decrypt an iPhone belonging to Syed Farook, the terrorist who massacred 14 innocent people late last year? Professor Orin Kerr has written … Continue reading
Jurisdiction & Ethics (Lessons 8-9)
“This wasn’t right, damn it. This wasn’t fair.” –Quoted from Ben Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires. In our next lecture (2/22), we are going to re-enact another pivotal scene from the movie “The Social Network”–a scene based on chapter 16 of … Continue reading
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Reblog: “Punctuation in novels”
Corrected (2/18): In case you’re wondering, via Adam J. Calhoun this is what two different English-language novels look like if you were to take out all the words and sentences and just leave the punctuation marks behind: Punctuation in Blood Meridian by … Continue reading
Antonin Scalia
We had the honor of meeting the gregarious Antonin Scalia on several occasions during his visit a few years ago to the Pontifical Catholic University in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where we used to teach. At a faculty luncheon in his honor, … Continue reading
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Final results of the 2015 New Zealand flag referendum
The New Zealand flag referendum was decided using an instant run-off voting procedure. Under this system of preference voting, the voters rank the choices in order of preferred alternatives. Notice how voting occurs over several stages or rounds and how the choice … Continue reading
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