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Thursday, February 15, 2018

Was academic freedom ever really a thing? 'Fluff the paper'!

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Almost 10 years ago, I was quoted in Inside Higher Ed : "When I started teaching 10 years ago, I thought universities were the quinte...
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Sunday, February 11, 2018

'False claims of love': Mass. App. speaks from the heart for Valentine's Day

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Just in time for Valentine's Day, the Massachusetts Court of Appeals rejected a divorcee's lawsuit for "false claims of love....

UMass Law SALDF hosts speaker to explain service animals and ADA compliance

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The UMass Law chapters of the Student Animal Legal Defense Fund (SALDF) and the Asian Pacific Law Students Associations (APALSA) co-hosted s...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Brief argues public interest in social science research, FOI, while managing privacy risk

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Representing the National Association of Scholars , UCLA Professor Eugene Volokh , UALR Professor Robert Steinbuch , and I filed an amic...
Friday, January 19, 2018

#MeToo much?

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On Boston Public Radio yesterday , the usually staunchly civil rights-sensitive Jim Braude, a former union attorney, and media personality ...
Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Pai FCC net neutrality policy steers US wrong way

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Today a political cartoon from my brother, Spencer Peltz , in AP Gov at Calvert Hall , where he is student body president . Probably ne...
Friday, November 24, 2017

Fourth Amendment privacy case, set for oral argument Nov. 29, touches on US-EU data protection divide

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I've published a short preview of Carpenter v. United States , 819 F.3d 880 (6th Cir. 2016), cert. granted , No. 16-402 (U.S. June 5, 20...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Mass. SJC remands internet jurisdiction, defamation case

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) last week remanded an internet jurisdiction case because the lower court jumped to constitut...
Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Error that led to Texas mass murder recalls recent tort claim against police after Massachusetts shooting

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The Air Force yesterday admitted that it failed to pass on information about the violent record of the Texas church shooter that might have...
Friday, November 3, 2017

UIA Congress studies global legal issues: irresponsible journalism, anti-corruption in sport, and intellectual freedom in fashion

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Just this week I returned from the annual world congress of the Union Internationale des Avocats, which did not disappoint.   Lawyers f...
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