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How to Digitalize Your Textbooks
Tuesday, 16 Feb, 2010 – 21:27 | 3 Comments
How to Digitalize Your Textbooks

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.

Kindling for the Legal E-Book Fire
Saturday, 17 Oct, 2009 – 18:28 | 2 Comments
Kindling for the Legal E-Book Fire

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 …

United States v. Microsoft, A Decade Later
Monday, 28 Sep, 2009 – 9:30 | 2 Comments
United States v. Microsoft, A Decade Later

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.) …

IBM Seeks Patent on “Autoblogging” Remote Control for Your TV
Tuesday, 1 Sep, 2009 – 13:52 | One Comment
IBM Seeks Patent on “Autoblogging” Remote Control for Your TV

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.

Data Breach Notification Laws
Monday, 24 Aug, 2009 – 9:35 | No Comment
Data Breach Notification Laws

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 …

Make your Studying More Tech Friendly (Part I in a Series)
Friday, 14 Aug, 2009 – 20:11 | 10 Comments
Make your Studying More Tech Friendly (Part I in a Series)

Part one in a series exploring new uses of technology to aide in your legal studies.

This is Your Brain on the Paper Chase
Monday, 6 Jul, 2009 – 22:10 | No Comment
This is Your Brain on the Paper Chase

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 …

Star Trek and Star Wars geeks collide at Trek Fest, Riverside, Iowa
Saturday, 27 Jun, 2009 – 13:04 | 16 Comments
Star Trek and Star Wars geeks collide at Trek Fest, Riverside, Iowa

The 25th annual Trek Fest in Riverside, Iowa, featured Vulcans, Klingons, beer, a rodeo and … storm troopers?

Advice For Up-and-Coming Law Students: Get Some Computer Skills
Tuesday, 23 Jun, 2009 – 19:59 | 5 Comments
Advice For Up-and-Coming Law Students: Get Some Computer Skills

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 …

Review: Nintendo Wii in Japanese Only. *Contest Included*
Monday, 22 Jun, 2009 – 0:01 | 2 Comments
Review:  Nintendo Wii in Japanese Only. *Contest Included*

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?

A Visual Survey of Law School Websites
Thursday, 11 Jun, 2009 – 6:45 | 2 Comments
A Visual Survey of Law School Websites

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 …

Kindle DX: Harbinger of the E-Textbook?
Tuesday, 9 Jun, 2009 – 15:43 | 6 Comments
Kindle DX: Harbinger of the E-Textbook?

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 …

Pirate Radio, the FCC, and Your Wifi
Tuesday, 9 Jun, 2009 – 12:57 | No Comment
Pirate Radio, the FCC, and Your Wifi

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 …

My EULA Crisis
Sunday, 17 May, 2009 – 10:42 | 7 Comments
My EULA Crisis

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 …

US News 2010 Law School Rankings Leaked
Sunday, 19 Apr, 2009 – 7:58 | 8 Comments
US News 2010 Law School Rankings Leaked

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 …

A Proposal For A Summer Associate Job Database
Thursday, 12 Mar, 2009 – 15:34 | One Comment
A Proposal For A Summer Associate Job Database

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)] …

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