Today, I return to the FJC Manual to discuss another of its chapters: How Science Works, which underlies the entire volume. The chapter appears to be telling judges “how science…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | April 9, 2026
AI has been involved in a race to the bottom, but it’s been towards more alignment. The competitive pressure to release new models has also created powerful incentives to build…
By Will Rinehart | April 9, 2026
The government's brief in Chatrie v. United States accepts that there is room in our law for recognition of property rights in data and for personal-information bailments.
By Jim Harper | April 8, 2026
Rewriting the Communications Act is not just an exercise in updating policy. It is a test of whether Congress can design institutions suited for a world defined by constant change.
By Mark Jamison | April 7, 2026
An Inconvenient Truth turns twenty next month. In the coming weeks, I am sure that there will be many retrospectives seeking to relitigate the scientific claims in the film. But…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | April 6, 2026
Society benefits most when the legal framework supports permissionless innovation, placing primary responsibility on end users who violate the law, rather than discouraging the creation of technologies that can be…
By Daniel Lyons | April 6, 2026
Rewriting the Communications Act is difficult because it’s not simply about updating outdated provisions; it is deciding the government’s roles in shaping outcomes in markets.
By Mark Jamison | April 3, 2026
Last month, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated that the war in Iran had cost the U.S. Treasury $12.7 billion over the first 12 days of the war.…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | April 2, 2026
That is the context for the current effort to rewrite the Communications Act: a recognition that the law no longer fits the world it seeks to govern—and an acknowledgment, whether…
By Mark Jamison | April 2, 2026
Michael Greenwald joins Shane to discuss how cloud computing is shaping the future of national security and digital defense.
By Shane Tews | April 2, 2026
A recent federal appellate court decision involving hateful online, off-campus speech by a public university law student raises important questions about what legal test applies to determine whether the First…
By Clay Calvert | April 1, 2026
Several commenters observed that Australia has a high dependency on imported liquid fuels, even though it is also a huge exporter of fossil fuels, and so its placement at the…
By Roger Pielke Jr. | March 31, 2026
The AI chip arms race is changing global supply chains; policymakers need to participate in the discussion. Wall Street understands how serious this is. The question is whether Washington will…
By Shane Tews | March 31, 2026
Markets might be able to price truth. Whether anyone wants to buy it is another question.
By Jim Harper | Jane Bambauer | March 30, 2026
In a seventh-season episode of The Simpsons, Bart tunes in to the Impulse Buying Network and spends $350 on an animation cel from The Itchy & Scratchy Show. As part of the pitch, an…
By Jim Harper | Jane Bambauer | March 30, 2026