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I'm thrilled to announce that the 2025 edition of our OER CivPro, Evidence, & Fed Cts rules & statutes book is now available. Digital is free (including PDFs) on the book website; print just $13 (the cost of publishing) on Amazon. pressbooks.uiowa.edu/civil-p… & amazon.com/Rules-Laws-Civil-…
Having trouble remember the joinder rules? Old MacDonald's here to help! youtu.be/Ve38-yWZIe8
Civil Procedure students: if you're having difficulty remembering which joinder rules are which, we've made a song for you. Here's verse one: youtube.com/shorts/TkiePS4vO…
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And @prgugliuzza did a great job presenting our paper "Expertise, Ideology, and Dissent" (also coauthored with @IowaPatentLaw).
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A forthcoming article in the @IowaLawReview, The Predictable Unpredictability written by @IowaPatentLaw and co-author Nikola Datzov, was recently reviewed by @PatentScholar in @IReadJotwell. ➡️ ip.jotwell.com/the-surprisin…
Thanks to @PatentScholar for writing about the judicial decisionmaking article I wrote with @Prof_Datzov (Predictable Unpredictability) on Jotwell. Go check it out! ip.jotwell.com/the-surprisin…..
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Iowa Law professor @IowaPatentLaw presented at The Patent Conference (PatCon) at @uofsandiego. The PatCon is the largest annual conference for patent scholars. ow.ly/6kb250Rjgy3
At beautiful USD today presenting & co-presenting a few projects including a new project proposal on data & empirical studies of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.,
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Iowa Law professor Jason Rantanen (@IowaPatentLaw) recently published, “Legal research as a collective enterprise,” in the peer-reviewed Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization discussing how legal academia lags in data sharing. Read more: ow.ly/nqxb50QINXz
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Delighted to report that Predictable Unpredictability with @Prof_Datzov is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review! Draft is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.….
I come back to XTwitter & half my feed seems to be Taylor Swift related for some unknown reason. But what about the turtles? thelittlehawk.com/63978/show…
Is the Alice/Mayo test as unpredictable as pundits claim? A new empirical study by Nikola Datzov and myself suggests: perhaps not. patentlyo.com/patent/2023/11…
Welcome to @IowaLawSchool alum Tara Eberline, partner-in-charge of @FoulstonSiefkin's KC office, for today's @IowaIBL talk "AI in the Workplace: Perspectives from a Law Firm Leader." If you're in town, join us! (This talk will not be streamed/recorded.) ibl.law.uiowa.edu/event/1296…
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I presented "Culture and Private Enforcement" -- coauthored with Dan Klerman, Cherie Metcalf & Diego Zambrano. Paul Gugliuzza @prgugliuzza & I co-presented "Expertise, Ideology, and Dissent" -- coauthored with Jason Rantanen @IowaPatentLaw.
LawProfs: Open Educational Resources aren't marketed as heavily as conventional products, but as you're thinking about spring, consider OERs. We've got a terrific OER statute book for CivPro/Evid/FedCourts that's free (digital) and at cost (paperback). pressbooks.uiowa.edu/civil-p…
It's Supreme Court day @IowaLawSchool! This year's problem is whether Iowa law provides a cause of action for a violation of a Right of Publicity & its relationship with the 1A. Especial thanks to the Justices of Iowa Supreme Court & problem author Cari Wadman!
(1/2) Thought question: 17USC101 says a “derivative work” is a work based upon one or more preexisting works. Does "based upon" encompass any copying of protected expression from an existing work, or does it mean something more, like that old work is the foundation of the new one