My first piece was published on the National ACS Blog today.
C-SPAN recently asked Nancy Pelosi to remove her bootlegged House Committee hearing footage from her YouTube account. First they came for the Speaker of the House, then they came for LonelyGirl15, then it was videos of people dancing to Chicken Noodle Soup, and then there [...]

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I brush my teeth before important phone calls. Usually it’s because I am asking somebody out on a date and for some reason I feel like my minty fresh breath will have a pleasant olfactory effect over the smellophone. However, I have recently been taking this quirk to a whole other level. Not only have [...]

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Posted a piece over at the W&M ACS Blog. It’s all about nerdy tech law stuff. Are you worried that the government is going to track everything you do on the Internet? You should be. Soon, they might know that you come to my blog everyday hoping that I’ll post pictures of me hanging out [...]

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Today is the one-year anniversary of buying my own webspace. I just celebrated by counting to 1 in binary.
Glad folks liked the legal analysis I posted up recently. I had never received that much site traffic before (thanks Consumerist), so maybe that’s a sign that I should write more about obscure contract theory instead of [...]

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A penny for your thoughts? The commenters from Consumerist have weighed in with their two cents about the typo hypo. Many believed that the Hotels.com typo was entirely too obvious to be relied upon by a reasonable customer, some even going as far as to say it would be grossly unethical for somebody to try [...]

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Cross Country Motel 2005
My sister has been planning a European vacation with her fiancé and was perusing deals on Hotels.com last week. She was quite surprised when she found vacancy at The Ritz Hotel in London for just one penny a night. You read that correctly, $.01. Without wasting a second, because afterall, time is [...]

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TiVo for Studying on Vimeo
I think I might have discovered a brand new way of studying that doesn’t take up as much time. You basically just leave a video camera running on your book, and then you later just watch it in fast forward. It totally works. I’m not sure why nobody else has thought [...]

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Twas the night before Crim Law, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring. So there’s clearly no actus reus, because that would require a voluntary act (i.e. stirring). Though, one could interpret the lack of stirring as an omission from a mouse, if the mouse is physically capable of stirring and had [...]

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My words feel a bit like lukewarm alphabet soup right now. It’s tough to write coherently in the hours following my very first law school exam.
Speaking of which— let’s just hope that my professor has a good sense of humor and respects jokes about personal jurisdiction. Civil Procedure is hilarious. Trust me. If the lawyer [...]

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I Put the Stud in StudyingOriginally uploaded by themarkpike.
A Pulitzer Prize winning photo, capturing the rare moment that the endangered species studious maximus hits the books.
You might be wondering what the basketball on my desk is…
It’s the prize I received for *drum roll* winning the first annual torts poetry contest! My professor decided to [...]

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