Dr. John Schinnerer invited my “Strangers on the Internet” podcast co-host Michelle Lange and me to be guests on an episode of his top 10 self-help podcast “The Evolved Caveman.” The topic is “Maneuvering Online Dating in Today’s World,” and we talk about people who lie or make others feel unsafe on dating apps, the […]

Here’s a paragraph from a soon-to-be published chapter on the “equity will not” doctrines–doctrines like equity will not enjoin a crime, equity will not enjoin a criminal proceeding, equity will not punish, equity will not enjoin a libel, and equity will not protect a political right. Equity has always been controversial. In the United States, […]

MSNBC recently aired a debate between Prof. Michael McConnell (Stanford) and myself on the question of whether Donald Trump can be disqualified from holding public office in the future, under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. We appeared on the Mehdi Hasan show. Here is the video: Our debate begins about 4-5 minutes in. Thanks […]

Prof. Katherine Macfarlane and I have a new piece up on the Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Bill of Health blog that discusses the recent successful federal lawsuit by Kutztown University professor Stephen Oross who litigated (and indeed, won on summary judgment) against his employer for prohibiting all online teaching accommodations. Here is an excerpt of our […]

I saw this new article by Prof. Richard Re, a leading scholar of federal courts law and my former UCLA colleague, and asked him if he would guest-blog about it; I’m delighted to say that he kindly agreed. Here’s the abstract: Perhaps the most surprising feature of the last Supreme Court term was the extraordinary […]

From a Thursday article by CNN (Hande Atay Alam & Celine Alkhaldi): Muhammad al-Ghamdi, a 54-year-old retired Saudi teacher, was sentenced “following 5 tweets criticizing corruption and human rights violations,” his brother Saeed bin Nasser al-Ghamdi tweeted last week. According to Human Rights Watch, Muhammad al-Ghamdi was arrested last year and given little access to […]

It’s the first weekend of the month, so it’s time for the September Open Thread. If you’re an old hand here at The Corbett Report, you’ll know what that means. If you’re new here, Corbett Report members are invited to participate in these open threads by discussing the latest news, talking about problems and solutions, […]

This may be pretty obvious to many readers, but I thought it would be fun to have a discussion about it: Generative AI should sharply propel forward the development of lifelike Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality environments (and of sub-VR visual environments, such as those for many computer games). That’s particularly clear, I think, for […]

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Radio Free Asia reports: [The defendants] are accused of insulting Buddhist cultural traditions and the morals of Buddhist monks, according to state media. Authorities haven’t specified under which law they would be prosecuted…. The film, titled “Don’t Expect Anything,” portrays the message that it is meaningless to worship Buddha images or pagodas, and instead it’s […]