Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Remember Guantanamo? Some People Hope You Don’t

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Michael Froomkin

Scott Horton has an important article at Harpers about three so-called suicides at Guantanamo in 2006.

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Annals of Weird Marketing

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Michael Froomkin

Hello,

My name is Devin. I am an online website optimization consultant for small to medium size businesses. I came across your website www.discourse.net and have noticed that there are many things that can be improved on your website to help you rank better in the search engines and ultimately drive more traffic to your webpage. Currently you have a page rank of 2nd position of 5th page for the Keyword – Balance of Miami-Dade House Painter – this can be improved very quickly. I will be happy to review your site in more depth for and give you a free quote on how you can improve your traffic, which will ultimately give you more online visibility, increasing your revenue.

Balance of Miami-Dade House Painter? Really? Someone has written a program to send ads touting SEO services and that is the best they can come up with?

PS. After this post, I bet I make the 4th page for “Balance of Miami-Dade House Painter” at least! And without paying a penny!

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Intimidating Critics Is an International Governmental Phenomenon

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Michael Froomkin

This British police intimidation of a blogger is much less heavy-handed than the hammer the Mayor of Peoria brought down on a parody Twitter account.

The Cambridge, UK story is, however, creepy insofar as it could be read to suggest that the police support the far-right UKIP party. Then again, the UKIP complainant was a local councillor, so maybe it really is the somewhat-less-unkind UK version of the Peoria story. After all, in Cambridge, no property was damaged or seized or destroyed. And no judges signed off on spurious warrants either.

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Inevitable

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Michael Froomkin

Anti-surveillance mask lets you pass as someone else

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Adlaw: The Video

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Michael Froomkin

The Chevron Two-Step:

via Above the Law.

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Law Students Invited to Publish

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Michael Froomkin

Friend and fellow lawprof Dan Hunter passes on this call for papers aimed at law students:

CALL FOR PAPERS Special Edition for emerging socio-legal scholars

QUT Law Review invites articles for its forthcoming Special Edition, highlighting emerging issues in Law and socio-legal disciplines.

For this special issue, we are seeking submissions from students undertaking higher degrees by research and from other early career researchers. We aim to highlight a broad range of emerging issues and provide an overview of research currently in progress.

This Special Edition is designed to provide an introduction to academic publishing for higher degree by research students. Articles will be subject to rigorous blind peer review, but we encourage submissions that present projects still in progress and do not yet have firm conclusions or results. Peer reviewers will focus on the ability of the article to present a novel methodological or conceptual approach to an existing problem or to identify a new socio-legal issue that has not been extensively studied. Submitted manuscripts will also be evaluated for technical competency and standard English expression.

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