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Among other things, today (30 Jan.) I will be attending a special one-hour session on “Integrating Commercial Innovations for Space Domain Awareness” at this year’s “Space Com” conference, which is taking place in my neck of the woods (Orlando, Florida). … Continue reading →

The worst offenders were FDR (pictured above), who signed over 3,700 Executive Orders or EOs (see link below), including the infamous Japanese internment order; Woodrow Wilson (1,803 EOs); and Calvin Coolidge (1,203 EOs). By way of comparison, Donald Trump has … Continue reading →

My colleague and friend Brian Frye has just posted @IpseDixitPod #807, which features Sarah Fackrell (Chicago-Kent) discussing her new law review article “The Counterfeit Sham“. Among other things, Professor Fackrell explains why design patent infringement is different from counterfeiting.

Below is the first map that I ever posted to this blog, an “Internet population map” first published on 13 October 2013 (see here). In summary, this map uses data from 2008 to illustrate the raw number of Internet users … Continue reading →

This catchy song was recorded by Winny, a Nigerian singer-songwriter, and features Thutmose, a Nigerian-American hip-hop artist based in Brooklyn.

I have been meaning to blog about this iconic cartoon by Peter Steiner after the original drawing was sold at an art auction in October 2023 to an anonymous bidder (see here), but somehow I never got around to it! In … Continue reading →

It’s official! My paper “Gödel’s Loophole: A Prequel” was just published as one of five “Selected Pieces from the 2024 ClassCrits Symposium” in the Southwestern Journal of International Law (Vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 613-631). Here is an ungated version. … Continue reading →

Traditionally, the law addressed [the problem of harmful effects] by asking such questions as … who caused the harm [and] who acted reasonably. Coase, however, emphasized the reciprocal nature of the problem ….” [Stewart Schwab, “Coase Defends Coase: Why Lawyers Listen and … Continue reading →

I mentioned in my previous post that harms might be a “reciprocal” problem, a simple but counter-intuitive idea with revolutionary implications that can be traced back to the work of the late great Anglo-American economist Ronald Coase, and I also … Continue reading →