Michael Madison

Professor @PittLaw | Co-organizer @GKCWorkshop | Senior Scholar @PittCyber | BoD @PART_pgh | ⚽⚽⚽ | "Everything in Between" on Substack | Looking around corners

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@chrisbriem John Oliver is on the case. Me, I'm beavering away at my Trademark Law course. Oops! Somebody stop me!

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@chrisbriem @PGHCityPaper @ProducerCities Well, there it is.

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@chrisbriem Years ago, I met Slim Forsythe, lawyer, school bus driver, and old time country musician, who lived upstairs and who gave me and a friend a quick tour of his apartment. Slim had a fantastic collection of old time country music posters and related paraphernalia.

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@chrisbriem Noteworthy but not necessarily a good thing. "Unicorn!" = "Squirrel!" More on my L.....I.

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@chrisbriem As you know better than I, Pittsburgh is sometimes unctuous bafflegab all the way down.

[James Boyle @thepublicdomain on all sites @thepublicdomain]

My new book, The Line: AI & the Future of Personhood, was published today by MIT Press. It is under a CC license so you can read it for free. https://t.co/3xy4QxwY8n

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@BrettFrischmann @GKCWorkshop I have turned my account on Bluesky (mostly) into a series of notes about new knowledge commons research. I will add this piece.

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@ShaniShisha @nyulawreview @nyulaw @SMULawSchool Provocative abstract. I've written a bunch of things over 20+ years about the troubled character of the copyright work, the "thing" at the center of the law and practice. Difficult to know whether any of them would be useful to you. Happy to chat separately.

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@ProfRobAnderson One hopes she replies, "You are a son of a bitch."

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@getmejoemiller @HoffProf What Joe said: https://t.co/5spB8K8LlD. [Pitt's law review is published by, and archives are maintained by, the publishing arm of the main university's library system.] "Color figures" could be the next crusade, after victory to abolish et al. when citing multi-authored works.

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@thepublicdomain @doctorow Huzzah and thank you. As ever, chunks of it will make it into my Fall Trademark Law syllabus and (later) into my Spring Copyright Law syllabus.

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@ProfRobAnderson

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@jess_miers @AkronLaw Congrats and welcome to the broader Three Rivers area! Come visit Pitt and Pittsburgh!😃 Coming in 2025: the next https://t.co/0qfL5UBlzr

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@Clevy_Law The deep epistemology of US legal ed is based on "the case." "The law" follows from the products of conflict, not the products of planning (by parties (deals), the government (administrative processes), or communities (governance). The surface payoff is a bias toward litigation.

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@OrinKerr As with many careers: as a candidate, you get nowhere by simply celebrating your glorious past. You are selling your glorious future. Many committees rely on poor proxies in predicting a candidate's future. Navigate around that as well as you can. Look forward to move forward.

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@OrinKerr At many law schools, tenure-stream hiring follows teaching needs. Learn what those needs/interests are and will be. Law schools may cover courses with adjunct faculty and have little interest in shifting to full-time coverage. Or the adjunct "solution" may be a stopgap.

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@brianlfrye (Kidding.)

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@brianlfrye Call me

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@CJSprigman @JeanneFromer @DSFrancis1 Nearly five years ago (!), I wrote a series of posts about law school casebooks and what close readings of their origins and uses can tell us about things that can and cannot be changed about legal education, higher education, and more. https://t.co/RVbCNivPbL

[Michael Madison @profmadison]

@jordan_law21 @marclauritsen And yet the law-meets-tech vanguard of legal ed is focused almost 100% on how to teach new lawyers to build and use AI.