Cracking the Copyright Lock: A Debate about Implementing the WIPO Treaty, Introductory Comments at a Cato Institute Policy Forum, Washington, DC, May 14, 1998
Free Speech |
- Treason, Technology, and Freedom of Expression, 37 Ariz. St. L. J. 999 (2005) [PDF format]
- Free Speech, Strict Scrutiny, and Self-Help: How Technology Upgrades Constitutional Jurisprudence, 87 U. Minn. L. Rev. 743 (2003)
- One-Click Treason,
Tech Central Station, July 24, 2003, at § Terrorism
- Internet Privacy and Self-Regulation: Lessons from the Porn Wars (Cato Institute, Policy Briefing # 65, 2001)
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Prediction Markets and Gambling |
- Government Prediction Markets: Why, Who, and How, 116 Penn. St. L. Rev. 403 (2011)
- Commentary on Predicting Crime, 52 Ariz. L. Rev. 65 (2010) [PDF format]
- Private Prediction Markets and the Law, 3 J. Prediction Markets 89 (2009) [PDF format]
- Joint Comment on CFTC Concept Release on the Appropriate Regulatory Treatment of Event Contracts, July 6, 2008 (response to request for comments co-signed by 19 academics, professional traders, and laypeople) [PDF format]
- Private Prediction Markets' Legality Under U.S. Law, Conference on Corporate Applications of Prediction/Information Markets, University of Kansas Business School and Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO (November 1, 2007) (presentation) [PPT format]
- Prediction Markets for Promoting the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts, 14 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 37 (2006) [PDF format]
- Gambling for the Good, Trading for the Future: The Legality of Markets in Science Claims, 5 Chapman L. Rev. 159 (2002) [PDF format]
- Online-Gambling Foes Lose a Hand,
Cato Commentary, July 22, 2000; republished in Orange County Register, July 30, 2000, at Commentary 2, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Oct. 24, 2000, at 6, and Lottery Insights, November 2000, at 26.
- Gambler's Web,Reason, October, 1999, at 25
- That article prompted a sharp exchange between Senator Kyl and me, which ran as letters to the editor in a subsequent issue of Reason.
- The article was republished in slightly edited form in CyberEthics at 140-43 (Terry Halbert & Elaine Ingulli, eds. 2001).
- Internet Gambling: Popular, Inexorable, and (Eventually) Legal (Cato Institute, Policy Analysis # 336, 1999)
- The Urge To Regulate The Internet Strikes Again,
Bridge News Service, March 24, 1999
- Interview of Prof. Tom W. Bell,
Casino Wire, March, 1999
- Internet Gambling: Prohibition v. Legalization,
Testimony Before the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, Chicago, IL, May 21, 1998
- Prepared Testimony, in PDF or HTML format
- Transcript of Actual Testimony (including disclosure of my own little gambling conspiracy)
- Transcript of Q & A Session (including, "COMMISSIONER DOBSON: For what it's worth, of all the people who have testified before us, I think I disagree most strongly with you, sir. MR. BELL: Thank you.")
- Internet Gambling: Impossible to Stop, Wrong to Outlaw,
Regulation, Vol. 21, No. 1, 1998, at 16 [PDF format; scroll down to p. 16]
- Internet Gambling Ban Faces Losing Odds
The Times Union (Albany, NY), January 6, 1998, at A7
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Other Law and Technology Issues |
- Copyright, The First Amendment, and Unoriginal Speech, Keynote presentation at "Censorship At Every Turn," a Liberty Tree Program and Cal. State, Fullerton Comm Week Special Event, Friday, April 30, 2010, Fullerton, California
- Op-Ed: White-Hat Terrorism,
Tech Central Station, November 7, 2003, at § Terrorism
- Op-Ed: Bomb Iraq! with Ballots,
Tech Central Station, October 4, 2002, at § Iraq [alternate source]
- Virtual Trade Dress: A Very Real Problem, 56 Maryland L. Rev. 382 (1997) (winner of the 1998 Ladas Memorial Award)
- Software makes doing your taxes TOO easy,
Cincinnati Enquirer, April 14, 2002, at E4; also ran as Cracking the Tax Code,
Daily Commentary, April 15, 2002 (Cato Institute)
- All's Not Fair in Internet Tax Wars,
L.A. Daily Journal, February 1, 2001, at 6
- New Federal Law Enables E-Commerce,
Orange County Lawyer, December, 2000, at 25
- Book Review: Online Law: The SPA's Legal Guide to Doing Business on the Internet (Thomas J. Smedinghoff ed., 1996), 3 Rich. J. L. & Tech. 1 (1997)
- Book Review: Henry H. Perritt, Law and the Information Superhighway (1996), 28 J. Maritime Law & Commerce 185 (1997)
- Usenet Death Penalty Coalition PICS a Fight with Spam,Telecom. & Elect. Media News, Fall 1997, at 1, 4
- Pork-Barrel Invades the Internet,This Just In, December 22, 1997.
- Digital Oral Culture, 4.06 Wired 121 (1996)
- Forward to the Past! The Rise of a Digital-Oral Culture
- Anonymous Speech, 3.10 Wired 80 (1995)
- Opinion: The Internet: Heavily Regulated by No One in Particular
- Critique: The Problem with 'Cyber-' (and Some Fixes)
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- I've spoken at many events held by the Institute for Humane Studies.
- The Origins and Nature of Law, IHS Liberty & Society Seminar, Chapman University, July 13, 2013 [PPT]
- Writing, Reading, and Respecting a Constitution, IHS Liberty & Society Seminar, Chapman University, July 15, 2013 [PPT]
- Copyrights, Property, and Freedom, IHS Liberty & Society Seminar, Chapman University, June 20, 2012 [PPT]
- Living Lives that Respect Liberty, IHS Liberty & Society Seminar, Chapman University, July 18, 2013 [PPT]
- Choosing a Specialization, in
Law School and Beyond 21 (John Moser ed., 1999) [PDF format]
- Comment, Limits on the Privity and Assignment of Legal Malpractice Claims, 59 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1533 (1992) (100 KB)
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