Open Access Law, or: Should Law Professors Write for Wikipedia?

The nascent open access movement in legal scholarship attracted a good deal of attention last fall, including from the three of us — Bill’s October roundup of recent law-blogger posts is still a good resource, and you can also find some pertinent stories through our open access and peer production tags. Legal scholars seem to [...]

Information and Eugenics?

George Will writes about genetic testing in Newsweek – his concern is that the recommendation by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that all pregnant women be tested for Down syndrome will lead women to abort babies with the syndrome. According to Will, “diagnosing Down syndrome can have only the purpose of enabling—and, in [...]

Longhorn Lawsuit Exposes Disarray of Trademark Fair Use

As has been reported widely (such as this AP story), the University of Texas recently sued a small business that sells fan-wear to supporters of its football archrival Texas A&M. Some of the defendants’ products feature a parody of the Longhorns’ trademarked logo, involving those horns being sawed off. Defendants claim that variations of “Saw [...]

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