A few weeks ago, a client who will be opening a factory in China within a couple of months told me how much he has been learning about China by following people on Twitter and following their news links. He then asked me who if I had a list of "China people" he should be following. I said abou ...

by Kevin Jon Heller by Kevin Jon Heller I am delighted to announce that Opinio Juris has formed a partnership with the Melbourne Journal of International Law, one of the leading non-US journals in the field.  Twice a year, beginning tomorrow, we will be hosting the same kind of symposia that we hav ...

That question is now on trial in a small west Texas town, where a nurse stands accused of a felony for reporting a doctor whom she thought was guilty of malpractice on patients. Even if the nurse is acquitted, the case could have a chilling effect on nurses' willingness to act as whistle blowers wh ...

Philadelphia - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be arguing this Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia, urging the court to block a government attempt to seize telephone company records detailing a cell phone user's past locations without first get ...

Kevin Williamson at NRO calls nominee Craig Becker "The 'Shut Up' Candidate": He has argued that workers should be allowed to choose only between unions, not between a union and no representation, and he wants employers to be banned from...

Source: Lexology, February 5, 2010. Fight breaks out over whether hacker responsible for largest data breach in history suffers from "Internet addiction"Foley Hoag LLP"In December, Albert Gonzalez, aka "segvec," "soupnazi" and "j4guar17" pled guilty to charges that he masterminded the theft of ...

Kevin Funnell at Bank Lawyer's Blog says blunt regulation threatens to wipe them out....

For years consumer bankruptcy attorneys have been fighting misconceptions about the impact of bankruptcy on credit. Consumers with abysmal credit scores and tens (or hundreds) of thousands of dollars in outstanding debt believed that they were somehow protecting their credit...

There's a great op-ed in the Washington Post by Kevin Huffman that highlights some of the antics of the former Congressman: In our moderate, land-locked state [Colorado], my Republican neighbors would sometimes express puzzlement over Tancredo’s obsession. He came to sound more like a deranged borde ...

Sunday post-snow funnies. WaPo: By delivering a paid keynote address at a convention other politicians had avoided because of allegations of profiteering, Palin displayed one of the traits that has electrified her anti-establishment followers: a talent for persistently and defiantly flouting the ...