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The issue with law is that laws are dissimilar from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, in meaningful enough ways that giving advice based on the laws for one jurisdiction might be entir…

I am a lawyer, and I have, in my own startup, contended with a company attempting to sue me/my startup for allegedly infringing on their trademark. I'm sympathetic to your cause, b…

That sounds like a good idea, although it looks like Joel has representation from a professor at Harvard law (Charles Nesson, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Nesson ) who, I w…

Not to burst anyone's bubbles, but just because the DoJ has issued a letter stating that they believe this is constitutional does not make it so. There are opinions, I believe, fro…

This is a fine goal, however, beyond what other have said here, it's important to realize that a lot of "laws" or "rules" that impact individuals on a day to day basis are not crea…

This article seems to imply that you can never change people's behavior by law (i.e. like posting a sign on a door saying not to throw towels on the floor) because people will alwa…

I understand that this case was decided on grounds consistent with Fricosu, and that the court held that the testimony was not a foregone conclusion and therefore the court could n…

My reading is that the court implied, and what likely could be argued/people would like to argue, is that, even if police were aware of the existence of specific documents, you mig…

Realize that this is a fairly narrow opinion, and, in my opinion, not a particularly well-reasoned one. The issue here is child pornography: the would-be defendant was suspected of…

It's important to remember that the federal Constitution and rulings by the Supreme Court interpreting the Constitution represent the floor of permissible action, not the ceiling. …

I agree. I'm sure there was a time not too long ago when merchants at local shops would know customers by name and learn their habits, and, possibly, be able to learn intimate deta…

I worked with/at TakeNote, which is Cornell's commercial note taking service and dealt with this often. Notwithstanding "ethical" reasons, this is very odd to me. I think the Calif…

This is an interesting point. Like tokenadult, my last graduate education was in law, which I currently practice, although I also know how to code, but don't have a particularly "f…

I couldn't agree more. Having worked at a large law firm, and with an offer to work for one in the near future, I am amazed at the amount of "cut and paste" resources these law fir…

If anyone would like a more detailed investigation of this topic, there's a good article on SSRN by another tax professor ( http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=17346…

It looks like Creative Commons tries to protect themselves with their disclaimer, which says that their deed has no legal value. I suppose a summary which similarly had no legal va…

Coming from a law background this makes me, and I imagine many lawyers, nervous. Terms of Service agreements may be wordy and hard to understand, but they're also substantive--ever…

Well, there are lots of reasons as to why capital gains are taxed at a lower rate than ordinary income. I'm not advocating that any of them are correct (and, obviously, many countr…

Haha, yes, I absolutely agree.

I really want this to work, but I'm skeptical. I've lived in India, and I know that corruption is rampant. These "middle men" will try hard to figure out another way to game this s…

I, at least, enjoyed reading it. I'm in a comparable situation, although I haven't left my job at this point. Good luck!

Yes, but this has been happening for years, and in many other countries. There are instances from 10+ years ago of places like Germany and France trying to and ultimately succeedin…

The so-called "silent majority" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_majority ) is certainly real. There have always been loud groups that constitute the minority: if Ohanian is s…

That's not quite true. From personal experience at two different Ivy Leagues schools, I can say that these schools and probably top schools in general are completely obsessive abou…

Sure--I don't disagree with you. I'm not suggesting that people shouldn't engage in civil disobedience, in fact, I personally think that people should engage in civil disobedience …