I generally avoid the August submission window, but this year, I had two time-sensitive pieces that could not wait until the February window: (1) a co-authored piece with Dean Laura Norris recapping our experience with the Tech Edge JD program…
I did an interview with Newstex, which syndicates my blog content, about my experiences as a content creator: What made you become a content creator? I started practicing law in 1994, at the beginning of the Dot Com boom. As…

I have posted 80 works to SSRN that collectively have generated over 60,000 downloads. This creates a dataset to play with. I categorized each of the 80 works into one of 11 topical categories. As you would expect, this classification…
I recently blogged about my 1993 summer associate class at Cooley Godward. I would love to do a similar roundup of my peers’ careers from my other summer associate experience at Sidley & Austin’s LA office in summer 1992, but…
I was one of 25 summer associates in Cooley Godward’s program in 1993. I recently rediscovered my summer associate “resume book”/”facebook” (we all looked SO YOUNG), and it made me wonder how their careers developed over the past three decades….
I watched this informative video conversation between Prof. Leandra Lederman (Indiana-Bloomington), Prof. Jon Choi (Minnesota) and Indiana Law 3L Abbi Semnisky, who is the Executive Articles Editor at the Indiana Law Journal. My notes: They received 30% of the entire…

The Headwaters Forest Reserve, near Eureka, California, was formed in 1999. I’ve been eager to visit it ever since. Last week, my daughter and I finally realized my goal. Check out my photo album. About Redwood Forests I love redwood…
[Santa Clara University gave me the option to teach online this semester instead of in the physical classroom, as I had been initially scheduled to do. I sent this note to the enrolled and waitlisted students explaining why I chose…
I maintain 14 Spotify playlists. As I’ve mentioned before, I spend a lot of time crawling through Spotify’s long-tail, looking for forgotten or hidden gems that may not be new music but are new to me. I hope you benefit…
I shared a version of this with my faculty. I’d welcome your thoughts. __ One of my goals as Associate Dean for Research is to get more people to read your works. This essay explains why readership matters and how,…