Marriage and the Multiverse
Today’s question comes from Marcus, who pointed me to this question from James Nicoll: “Under current US law, can djinn marry humans?” This was apparently inspired by the show I Dream of Jeannie, in...
View ArticleSuperhero Journalists Revisited
You may recall our previous post about superhero journalists Clark Kent and Peter Parker, which discussed how copyright affected them differently as an employee and an independent contractor,...
View ArticleGuest Post: Clark Kent’s Taxes
Today we have a guest post from Martha L. Voelz, an associate with S.H. Jacobs & Associates LLC in New York that we met at New York Comic Con. As we mentioned in a recent post, Clark Kent has quit...
View ArticleSuperman’s Diamonds Revisited
Just over two years ago I discussed Superman’s (lack of) tax liability for crushing coal into diamonds and (actual) gift tax liability if he gave those diamonds to another person. In the comments to...
View ArticleTruth, Justice, and the American Rule
I have a piece over at Wired.com on Man of Steel and the duty to rescue. There are some moderate spoilers in the article. All in all it was a pretty good movie, though not without its flaws (<-...
View ArticleMan of Steel
I just got out of Man of Steel, and there’s something of a doozy of a legal question pretty early on. There are some very mild spoilers inside, but no real plot points, so proceed at your discretion....
View ArticleLois Lane’s Employment Contract
This will probably be our last post on Man of Steel. No spoiler warning on this one, as I can set up the issue without giving anything of consequence away. In Man of Steel, Lois Lane works as a...
View ArticleSuperman and the Duty to Rescue on Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law has produced a short video about my piece on Wired.com about Superman and the duty to rescue in Man of Steel. Check it out!
View ArticleThe Man of Steel Confesses
I know I said the post on Lois Lane’s employment contract would probably be our last post on Man of Steel, but we got a great question from Neal that I couldn’t resist writing up. Neal—who is a rabbi...
View ArticleJudging Batman and Superman
Today I have something a little different, a draft of a paper by Jeremy Greenberg titled Batman v. Superman: Let the Courts Decide, 33 Quinnipiac L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2014). Mr. Greenberg analyzed...
View ArticleLaw and the Multiverse Retcon #10
Time for another installment of the Law and the Multiverse Retcons series, in which I discuss changes in the law (or corrections in my analysis) that affect older posts. Alert readers will notice that...
View ArticleSuperman and Supergirl: Environmental Refugees
(This guest post was written by Kean Zimmerman, a recent graduate from Michigan State University College of Law. This post is an in-depth exploration of Superman and Supergirl’s environmental refugee...
View ArticleBatman v. Superman and Import Licenses
(Lawrence M. Friedman is a partner at Barnes, Richardson & Colburn, LLP and an adjunct professor at the John Marshall Law School’s Center for International Law. He is also the author of the...
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