(HT to Slaw) Law.com reports on the new wiki by the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, available at http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/wiki/. Judge Easterbrook, who led the project, gives the purpose of the project: The goal is to concentrate on procedure (in both the court of appeals and the district courts) but not to cover [...]

The University of Southampton has launched the Institute for Law and the Web at Southampton (ILAWS). From the site: ILAWS , the Institute for Law and the Web at Southampton, was founded in 2006 to work on the legal issues, problems and opportunities associated with the Internet, the Web and digital technology. ILAWS is a [...]

This is the first in a series of posts about the US legal system. Many of the cases and statutes that we study in the IP and IT law fields originate in the US, and I thought I’d do a series on different aspects of the legal system for those unfamiliar with it. These posts [...]

Gikii 2, a one day workshop on the intersections between law, technology and popular culture, will be held on September 19th, 2007 in London, England. The co-chairs are Lilian Edwards, Professor of Internet Law, University of Southampton, and Director of ILAWS, and Andres Guadamuz, Co-Director, AHRC Centre for Research into Intellectual Property and Technology Law, [...]

These are my links for 8th May 2007 through 10th May 2007: Balkinization – Straight Talk About Tenure – “But most of the time it [tenure] functions to confer immunity on professors to work as little as they please beyond teaching their assigned classes.” Column: Google Arming Itself for Battle with Viacom – “If a [...]

In this much belated BILETA post, I post links to blog coverage of BILETA 2007: A new blog by Michael Filby, Cyber Piracy, has the full paper and slideshow for his BILETA paper, “Confusing The Captain With The Cabin Boy: The Dangers Posed To Reform Of Cyber Piracy Regulation By The Misrepresented Interface Between Society, [...]

So if you’ve been wondering why I haven’t blogged as much in-depth material lately, this is one of the reasons. I’ve been hard at work on the report for the IT-based business and FTA report. The report has been released as part of our working paper series and placed on SSRN. Citation and abstract below: [...]