ACLU Sues Over CA’s Discriminatory Name Change Practices
When my wife and I got married, we discussed our various naming options. (See my brief writeup on this decision). “Traditionally,” the wife takes the husband’s last name. However, my last name, Schlachter, was long, hard to pronounce and harder…
Jacob Turns 4
Jacob turned four last week. After a birthday party at his school, where he got to wear a crown, we had a birthday party for him in our backyard–it was 70 degrees, sunny and beautiful. At Jacob’s request, Lisa made…
Halloween Photos
Photos from our trip to Bob’s Pumpkin Farm in Half Moon Bay (more on that soon), the obligatory Dina-with-chocolate-face photos, and other goodies here.
New Family Photos
Over 100 unedited family photos for your perusal. Among others, I like the Dina tush shot, the Dina thumbs up, and the sequence showing the (messy) interaction of a one year old baby and a piece of ice cream cake….
Dina Turns 1!
Hard to believe it, but Dina turned 1. I’m sorry to say that I’ve been remiss about disseminating photos of her. I feel guilty for succumbing to second child syndrome. Despite that, if you want the latest poorly edited photo…
UDRP Action for Goldmansex.com
Goldman Sachs has filed a UDRP action with NAF for the domain goldmansex.com, which right now (according to the news reports–I haven’t confirmed…) provides links to strip clubs and escort agencies. I’m pretty skeptical that there’s a lot of confusion…
New Gig: Santa Clara University School of Law
Starting next academic year, I’ll be an Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and the Director of the school’s High Technology Law Institute. In my administrative role, I will provide academic direction and leadership to the school’s…
Baby Blogs
It appears that the new status symbol for moms is a baby blog. Two examples from our friends Alex and Lara and Erin and Josh. My wife reads them regularly. But she doesn’t read my blogs, which (I must confess)…
New Blog: Empirical Legal Studies
Congratulations to my colleague Jason Czarnezki on the launch of his new blog, the Empirical Legal Studies blog. According to its first post, “the ELS blog will advance productive and interdisciplinary discourse among empirical legal scholars.” Good luck!
Czarnezki on Legislative Interpretation
My colleague Jason Czarnezki has written a paper entitled Shifting Science, Considered Costs, and Static Statues: The Interpretation of Expansive Legislation where he argues that federal statutory language should be broadly interpreted. This struck me as a wacky argument as…