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in propria persona
http://www.inpropriapersona.com
Commentary about law, tech, and theory. Written by a law student and former software developer, sysadmin and IT manager.
- Added on: Jun 1st, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Kris Nelson
- Listed in: Law & Legal Technology
- Tags: education technology legal law theory criticism
Recent Posts
Law school is harder than grad school
Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr I’ve been debating the difference between law school and grad school since I started a PhD program this fall. (I’m talking about the humanities and social sciences — I don’t know if this appl...
Finding the diamonds in the rough in the “blogosphere”
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been giving a lot of thought over the weekend to the problem of finding good content buried amidst all the noise on the Internet, especially when it comes to blog articles from lesser-known sources. (This is true for read...
Why should we keep others from selling our work?
Techdirt discusses why you shouldn’t be concerned if someone “steals” your work and sells it, noting that “it’s not necessarily a bad thing”: If someone actually figures out something that works well, then that’s useful info to us, and ...
Applying Robert Merton’s “The Normative Structure of Science” to the law
As part of an irregular series focusing on my graduate work in law and technology, I’m going to occasionally highlight some of the more theoretical material I work on: Robert Merton, in “The Normative Structure of Science” (from The Sociology o...
My top free tools for law firms and other small businesses
Carolyn Elefant recently provided her list of free tools for starting a law firm. In this same spirit, I would like to present my list of top tools, all of which I’ve used at various times myself. (Some of these echo her recommendations.) Before I ...
Moving away from traditional publishers
As I noted a few days ago, there has been increasing attention to the idea of authors moving away from traditional publishers when it comes to e-books. Here’s more from the New York Times about one author doing just that: Ever since electronic book...
