Tagged: law
#LawBot, or, Legal Advice in Twelve Tweets
A status check on technological disruption in the legal profession.
What Trump has in Common with a Subsistence Farmer
Not paying taxes for 18 years is not necessarily tax evasion
V for Vindication: Justifications for Piracy and Copyright
Perhaps there is more to piracy than its need to be stopped.
The Split (or How The Law Can Learn To Stop Modern Piracy And Illegal Downloads)
A look at fighting digital piracy in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Redlining the Declaration (A Greatest Hit)
Originally run on his private blog way back in 2011, Burt Likko offers an editor’s view of the organic document of the United States of America.
COMMON LAW: Imperfect Entities
It turns out, there are holes in the law. Here’s how Burt Likko found one.
Legal Draftsmanship, Part XIV
Submitted for your consideration, a candidate for the “unlikely sentence exemplar” award.
Shakespeare in American Politics
Guest Author T. Greer eulogizes the neglect of our literary heritage in contemporary rhetoric.
Like Jason Voorhees In That Last Scene
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Religious Test Clause predictably collide with Obergefell v. Hodges in Eastern Kentucky.
Know Your Executioner
A condemned man in Tennessee wants his lawyers to depose the people who would be his executioners.
Comment Rescue: Cultural Merits of Abortion
I’ve never done this before — promoted my own comment, that is. But I think I got a pretty decent thought out there.
Still Better Than The Four-Level
It’s about the journey more than the destination: a glimpse into one summer day in DTLA.
Delivering Due Deference
Chief Justice Roberts was nearly silent during oral argument, and then wrote the 6-3 majority opinion in today’s Obamacare case. Burt Likko replies to Justice Antonin Scalia’s accusations of through-the-looking-glass judicial activism.
A Sore Test of a New Conviction
Strong is the desire for vengeance. Pretends to be “justice,” vengeance does.
But down that path, no benefit will you find.
