Articles in the Geekery Category
Since the iPad, Kindle, and Nook haven’t given you the ability to read/study for lawschool electronically, I present to you a way in which you can.
The wake of my gloomy report on the status of legal e-books seems surprisingly upbeat this week: it seems that West has released nearly 30 of its titles for electronic download on the Amazon Kindle. A press release …
Last week in antitrust class we covered United States v. Microsoft. Our analysis centered on “Microsoft III” and the Sherman Act Section 2 violations issues. (Section 2 of the Sherman Act makes monopolization a felony.) …
Apparently, IBM thinks we’d be better off having yet another remote on our collective coffee tables: this one that is web-enabled and automatically tells the world what you are watching on TV.
State legislatures have become more vigilant over the past year in passing (and tightening) data breach notification laws. Universally, these laws at a minimum require entities to disclose when data containing sensitive personally identifiable information …
Part one in a series exploring new uses of technology to aide in your legal studies.
This story made the internet rounds a week or two ago but I thought that it would be a nice topic for good old Legal Geekery. Recent research into the brain may provide scientists with …
The 25th annual Trek Fest in Riverside, Iowa, featured Vulcans, Klingons, beer, a rodeo and … storm troopers?
It’s tough out there. Law school enrollments are rising [pdf] and yet fewer graduates are getting law jobs.
So here’s a suggestion for beating the competition among your law student peers: become a geek. A computer …
I’ve done quite a few geeky things. Raise your hand if you know what LARPing is. Now raise your hand if you’ve spent Friday nights LARPing. By nights, I mean more than one in a row. Anyone still with me?
At the beginning of June, Georgetown University’s Law Library released a comprehensive look at over 200 law school websites. What’s impressive about this report, besides the sheer volume (ends at page 450…) is that it’s …
First off, let me just say that I love Amazon. Give me some Prime free 2-day shipping and some low prices and I’m on a shopping spree. This is a company that’s been innovative from …
Welcome Legal Geekery readers I am Christopher Wright (@ckwright) your newest LG blogger. My biography isn’t up yet, but if it was you would know that back in my college days I used to work …
For the past year or so, I’ve devoted substantial efforts to arguing that many terms within standard Massively Multiplayer Online Game license agreements should be found unconscionable.
For those of you who don’t know, I’m spending …
UPDATE: The 2010 US News Law School Rankings leak has been unofficially verified as legit.
It appears that the critical badger was out in front on this one, producing a scanned copy of the first page …
I have no idea why this doesn’t exist already. I suspect that quite a few qualified 2Ls such as myself [shameless plug but if you're still hiring, please see my resume (redacted for my privacy)] …



