The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a decision today striking down an ordinance in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania requiring “door-to-door canvassers who plan to ‘hand pamphlets or other written material’ to residents or discuss with them ‘issues of public or religious interest’ to first register with the police department.” If this requirement [...]
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Back after lunch. Glenn Reynolds talks about libel. [Note: I missed blogging part of this as my Mac rebooted. Isn't this supposed to be why Apple's OS trumps Windows?] He points out that blogs quickly and prominently correct errors, limiting harm from defamatory postings. Since they’re open to everyone, Tornillo-style regulation is superfluous. He also [...]
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Bill offered an excellent introduction to our blog, and especially to information law – something he and I are mildly obsessed with. (I prefer it to “cyberlaw” because it focuses on data, not medium.) I’m a fellow at the Berkman Center along with Bill and a host of talented folks. I work primarily with the [...]
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Next up: The Role of the Law Professor Blogger Gail Heriot, from wonderful San Diego, talks about whether law schools should encourage blawgs. Answer: yes, because it enables profs’ function as public intellectuals. (Disclaimer: blogging is such fun that perhaps her perspective is suspect.) Law bloggers want to be topical, consequential, and expert. Law review [...]
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Bill and I are here in Ames Courtroom listening to Bloggership: How Blogs Are Transforming Legal Scholarship. Paul Caron is talking about the Law Professor Blogs Network, noting that Jim Lindgren and Allison Nagelberg found that highly-cited scholars are viewed as better teachers by law students. He tackles the question of whether scholars are better [...]
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