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1 Nov 2022, 5:52 am
[A profound loss to the IP community and the world] As many found out by yesterday, my dear friend and beloved IP scholar Dmitry Karshtedt, has left us. Dmitry died at his DC apartment over the weekend. His accomplishments and accolades are many, from having recently obtained tenure at GW to being one of few law professors with a PhD in chemistry to regularly publishing important work in top-notch law journals. As he delightfully summarized here himself during his graduate school days, his interests… [read post]
12 Nov 2023, 11:01 pm
[I comment on listeners' experiences related to dating apps] I made another appearance on CBC Radio's Alberta at Noon with Judy Alduous last week to discuss Canadian listeners' stories about using dating apps. The recording is here and I comment throughout the hour-long show. VC readers interested in the current state of the dating landscape may also want to check out this piece that appeared in the NY Times over the weekend entitled "Why Aren't More People Getting Married?… [read post]
11 Jul 2023, 3:19 pm
[How to avoid both becoming and blaming victims] I had the pleasure of appearing on CBC Radio's Alberta at Noon with Judy Alduous yesterday to speak about romance scams. The recording is available here and you can hear my intermittent commentary from around 14:30 to 26:50. For a quick list of safety measures to take to protect yourself against romance scams, check out the FBI's list here. This recent NBC piece also discusses the mental health toll that such scams can take on their victims… [read post]
15 Jan 2022, 6:21 am
[Machine-splaining academic writing] Everyone could use a laugh right now, so check out the tl;dr Papers site that transforms scholarly writing to a second-grade level for you. Originally developed to use for scientific abstracts, it works equally well for law review articles (as I discovered thanks to Prof. Chad Oldfather). Here is the abstract for my "Tinder Lies" article, transformed: The rise of Internet dating has been a real problem for lots of people. People can use their phones to… [read post]
14 Jan 2022, 4:41 am
[Are law schools following the data?] Together with the leadership of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, I am co-organizing a multidisciplinary Zoom panel on Thursday, January 20 at 12-2pm CST entitled "Validity and Equity Problems in Law School Teaching Evaluations." Everyone interested in attending should register here. The event will also be recorded. Northwestern's Dean Hari Osofsky and myself will be hosting the event, and our speakers are: Renee Allen (St. John's),… [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 11:28 am
[Bad dating advice abounds online and in Hollywood scripts] I posted the eighth episode of my podcast "Strangers on the Internet" (the direct link for Apple Podcasts is here). In this installment, my co-host, psychologist Michelle Lange and I pick apart dating advice from the Interwebs, (in)famous listicles, and popular tropes such as Hollywood's dating plot lines from the last two decades. One of the recent reads about online dating worth checking out is the NY Times'… [read post]
15 Aug 2022, 7:26 am
[How to handle first dates, stay safe, and have fun] The fourth episode of my podcast "Strangers on the Internet" just dropped (the direct link for Apple Podcasts is here). My co-host, psychologist Michelle Lange, and I discuss how to approach first dates, Google strangers, and avoid ghosting. Come learn about the basics of dating safety AND etiquette for a more enjoyable experience all around. We share what we have learned during background checks and how some people react badly when… [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 7:03 am
[Everything you ever wanted to know about dating apps and the search for love] I am happy to announce the launch of a new project concocted by psychologist Michelle Lange and myself: our podcast "Strangers on the Internet", which gives listeners an academic take on dating apps, love, safety, relationships, and much more. Its official website is here (click the link and then hit the "Follow" button to add the podcast on your preferred platform) and the direct link to its Apple… [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 3:10 am
titling, compulsory public acquisition of land can play out as a matter of discretion [Gregory Dolin and Irina [read post]
25 Oct 2023, 3:02 pm
[An allegedly deafening silence from law enforcement] I wanted to flag an article today in The Verge that discusses the long-time online harassment of my colleague Prof. Alex Sinha and his wife Prof. Janani Umamaheswar, among other targets of anti-Asian American attacks. The piece raises important questions about what is the role of law enforcement in such cases and why we see so little intervention even with persistent abuse.The post Online Harassment Against Asian-American Professors appeared… [read post]
20 Sep 2023, 4:20 pm
[My podcast co-host and I appear on Dr. John Schinnerer's show] Dr. John Schinnerer invited my "Strangers on the Internet" podcast co-host Michelle Lange and me to be guests on an episode of his top 10 self-help podcast "The Evolved Caveman." The topic is "Maneuvering Online Dating in Today's World," and we talk about people who lie or make others feel unsafe on dating apps, the different experiences of men versus women on the apps, the criteria that… [read post]
12 Jul 2025, 6:22 am
[From Helpful Learning Tool to Problematic Deception] The Washington Post has a new podcast up this week about the ways that AI is changing online dating. Some of these ways risk crossing the line into the territory of deception. I have written previously in law review articles here and here about the issues with deception in online dating, from sexual fraud to hiding one's true identity for purposes of financial fraud or downright violence. Deploying AI as a learning tool seems relatively… [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 9:32 am
[A bonus episode to explore long-term happiness in relationships] I posted the ninth episode of my podcast "Strangers on the Internet" (the direct link for Apple Podcasts is here and for Spotify is here). Psychologist Michelle Lange and I explore this time the academic research on and our personal experiences with maintaining long-term happiness in romantic relationships. How can people apply the Golden Rule (and even better, the Platinum Rule) in this context? Is there… [read post]
20 Jan 2025, 2:45 pm
Prof. Cassandra Burke Robertson and I published a new piece today over at The Conversation about Trump's idea to use the military for deportations. In short: he has a tough road ahead.The post Trump's Proposed Use of the Military for Deportations appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
20 Feb 2023, 7:48 am
[Prof. Nina Kohn and I argue that they do] Prof. Nina Kohn and I have a new piece up on the Harvard Law Petrie-Flom Bill of Health blog that examines the question of liability in cases in which patients contract COVID-19 in hospitals that no longer require masks. Here is an excerpt: Hospitals have a common law duty to act reasonably. If they unreasonably expose patients to risk, and the patients are harmed as a result, hospitals may be liable for damages. The result: patients who can show that it is… [read post]
19 Sep 2022, 6:45 am
[How to spot a narcissist (or get rid of one)] I posted the seventh episode of my podcast "Strangers on the Internet" (the direct link for Apple Podcasts is here). My co-host, psychologist Michelle Lange and I deal with one of the most important issues in the dating and relationship context: how to detect both narcissistic traits and full-blown narcissists. We teach listeners the signs of love bombing, gaslighting, and other signature moves of energy vampires. In other online dating (as… [read post]
21 Apr 2025, 6:51 am
[Why Dating Apps Should Have ID Verification and Mandatory Background Checks] Dating apps continue to make headlines for how little protection they provide against repeat violent offenders and arguably enable them. I have a law review article entitled "Tinder Backgrounds" that is forthcoming in the Georgia Law Review (and whose draft is available here) trying to address this issue. Here is the abstract: In an era in which dating apps have become the primary matchmaker for millions of… [read post]
29 Aug 2023, 4:44 pm
[What happens to children adopted from abroad by American parents and left without U.S. citizenship?] I am pleased to share that my article with Cassandra Burke Robertson entitled "Adopting Nationality" recently appeared in the Washington Law Review. It is the latest in our series of articles on citizenship that have been published in the NYU Law Review (2019), Vanderbilt Law Review (2020), North Carolina Law Review (2021), and Texas Law Review (2022). This… [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 9:05 am
[Why children adopted from abroad should be recognized as U.S. nationals] I am happy to share that my latest law review article "Adopting Nationality", co-authored with Cassandra Burke Robertson and available here, has been accepted for publication in the Washington Law Review. Here is the abstract: Contrary to popular belief, when a child is adopted from abroad by an American citizen and brought to the United States, that child does not always become an American citizen. Many adoptees… [read post]
3 Jun 2022, 8:38 am
[Do individuals born in the U.S. Territories have a constitutional right to citizenship?] I am happy to announce that the latest article by Cassandra Burke Robertson and myself, "Integral Citizenship", is now out in the centennial volume of the Texas Law Review. It joins our previous publications on denaturalization and other forms of citizenship loss in the NYU Law Review (2019), Vanderbilt Law Review (2020), and North Carolina Law Review (2021). Here is the final version of the… [read post]
