{"id":2796,"date":"2009-03-20T22:12:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T03:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2009-03-22T20:36:27","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T01:36:27","slug":"no-law-the-book-the-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/no-law-the-book-the-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"No Law (the book, the conference)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.law.duke.edu\/images\/cspd\/nolawbooksmall.jpg\" alt=\"No Law!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyone who can write a sentence like this one: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>No one who has ever savored a Corona Extra and a grilled cheese sandwich hastily cooked on a well-crusted one-burner hotplate and served at sundown from the not-all-that-sanitary hands of besandled sprites in tie-dye apparel, which wandering amidst the jumbled array of gaily painted one-time school buses and VW Micros (ideally the model with opera windows, like the one Arlo Guthrie drove to the dump in Alice&#8217;s Restaurant), in a pleasant haze of body odor, burning grease, and patchouli, is likely to forget the experience, or what it meant to one&#8217;s understanding of transcendence.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> and manages to get it woven into a book from Stanford University Law School Press under the title of <em>No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment <\/em> deserves a party if not a respectable gathering of legal scholars and a free lunch. Personally I would, if able, give much more. Unable to give more, I give my proper respect and my attendance at the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow (Saturday March 21) will not only be the first day of Spring but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.duke.edu\/cspd\/conferences\/nolaw\">the Conference to Honor the Publication of No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment<\/a> honoring not only the book but the authors &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.duke.edu\/fac\/lange\/\">David Lange<\/a>, who surely wrote the sentence quoted, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.duke.edu\/fac\/powell\/\">H. Jefferson Powell.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who can write a sentence like this one: No one who has ever savored a Corona Extra and a grilled cheese sandwich hastily cooked on a well-crusted one-burner hotplate and served at sundown from the not-all-that-sanitary hands of besandled sprites in tie-dye apparel, which wandering amidst the jumbled array of gaily painted one-time school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2798,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions\/2798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}