( Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange )

( The Dictator's Handbook: highly recommended )

( intro to property theory )

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy (2016)

( Probably at least as much as you want to know about American privacy regulation )

( Emily Bazelon; using superheroes to discuss law )

Here’s a neat post explaining tag wrangling on the AO3 from accidental marriage to zombies!

( Who owns the past? )

Random promotion: I love Dropbox. It just saved my hide when I turned out to have deleted some very important footnotes by allowing me to go back about forty versions and nearly a month to find an older file that had the footnotes. If you’re looking for a convenient cloud backup service, I recommend it highly. And if you join using this link,  I ( Read more... )

Help! You guys have extensive collective knowledge on which I wish to draw. I am looking for an example of a novel (in a pinch, a movie) in which a character has the name of a famous person, but is not supposed to be that famous person. So, Gary Coleman in Avenue Q isn’t right-even though the role was inaugurated by a woman, the script uses ( Read more... )

This article is about Scientology, but this quote is priceless in any context: “After Haggis had emergency surgery, his doctor told him that it would be four or five months before he could work again: ‘It would be too much strain on your heart.’ He replied, ‘Let me ask you how much stress you think I might be under as I’m sitting at home while ( Read more... )

Oh, The Event. It’s so cute how you use the right names for DC locations and yet show us a Metro and a city that are obviously not the stated locations.

( Native Gothic, Incognegro, and Pink Pirates )