Info/Law

Jim Chen, one of my colleagues at my new perch here at the University of Minnesota Law School, has just jumped into blogging with both feet on a new blog called Jurisdynamics. He has an ambitious agenda, including a lot of Information Law. From his introductory post:

This blog openly embraces a dynamic model of legal change. Jurisdynamics describes the interplay between legal responses to exogenous change and the law’s own endogenous capacity for adaptation.

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As a matter of organization, this blog will focus on tools and applications within the realm of jurisdynamics. Within the expansive world of legal scholarship, some methods and subjects simply lend themselves more naturally to jurisdynamic analysis.

Jurisdynamic tools include:

• Mathematics, statistics, and empirical analysis, including bibliometrics
• Language, linguistics, and interpretation
• Complexity theory
• Evolutionary biology and behavioral psychology

Naturally jurisdynamic subjects include:

• Innovation policy and intellectual property
• Economic regulation, antitrust, and competition policy
• Environmental protection, natural resources, and agriculture
• Natural disasters and other emergencies
• Trade, development, and public finance
• Constitutional law and democratic governance

Jim is uniquely suited to write thoughtfully on such an amazingly broad swath of legal topics — certainly including Information Law. His blog will be well worth following.

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