Yearly Archives: 2016

Legal Theory Bookworm Recommends “Robot Law”

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

Thank you Larry Solum! More here.

Previously: Just Got My Advance Copy of Robot Law.

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We Robot 2016 News

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

Papers for We Robot 2016 are now available from the Program Page — look for the colorful hyperlinks. If you’re coming, or if you are planning to follow along online, you will want to read as many of the papers as you can before the event. We Robot authors do not present their papers; instead we jump straight to the discussant, who summarizes the paper and then offers comments. The author(s) respond briefly, and then we turn it over to our amazing attendees for their questions and reactions. This makes for a much more substantive session, but it works better if you’ve read the paper in advance.

If you would prefer to download the papers all at once, here’s a zip file with all of the papers.

And if you haven’t registered yet, don’t delay: Registration closes on Monday at 5pm, and there will be only a very limited number of seats at the door.

(Links fixed!)

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Bush PAC Post-Mortem

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

Worth a read. Also includes this local-interest gem from operative Mike Murphy:

He cites the old Eric Hoffer maxim: Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

Take, for instance, he says, the Tea Party — “a racket, though it’s supposed to be a nonracket,” full of faux four-star generals who say, ” ‘You’ve got to pay me because … I represent the Nebraska sub-Army 14 of the Tea Party,’ and there’d be like four or five guys arguing over who’s in charge of it.” It reminds Murphy of when he used to do referendum campaigns in Dade County. “There’d always be these charming old Cubans who’d come in and say, ‘Colonel Escobar is willing to endorse on his radio show, but he requires certain considerations. One million dollars.’ “

“And we’d be like, ‘Thirty-five hundred dollars cash and lunch today.'”

“‘We agree!'”

— Debriefing Mike Murphy | The Weekly Standard.

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DSC Plays Its Trump Card

Posted on March 15, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

Link if you can’t see above

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Great Interview at Brink

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

Robot Law: Preventing Serious—and Subtle—Threats, featuring yours truly.

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If Only…

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Michael Froomkin

MIAMI—In what political observers characterized as the organization’s highest-level staff shakeup to date, the presidential campaign of Sen. Marco Rubio announced Monday it would be bringing on a new candidate for the remainder of the 2016 election.

via The Onion por supuesto.

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