Faculty Posts

February 21, 2012

Politics, Copyright and the First-Amendment Commons

On the eve of the Republican primary in Florida, the Romney campaign started running a new television ad called “History Lesson.” Romney was coming off Newt Gingrich’s double-digit win in South Carolina and the momentum in the campaign for the... (continue reading)

January 23, 2012

Video: Law School Faculty on United States v. Jones

Today the Supreme Court handed down a decision in United States v. Jones which held that attaching a GPS device to a vehicle and then using the device to monitor the vehicle’s movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.... (continue reading)

August 11, 2011

Remembering Judge Terence Evans

One Sunday morning in the fall of my third year of law school, Judge Terence Evans called to offer me a clerkship in his chambers for the following year. A judge on the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, Evans... (continue reading)