space – Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 17 Feb 2013 18:41:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Peter Diamandis interview, Wired https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/09/peter-diamandis-interview-wired/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/09/peter-diamandis-interview-wired/#comments Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:07:47 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=32440 Private space pioneer Peter Diamandis, who founded the X Prize Foundation and cofounded Singularity University, from the Wired July issue, interviewed by Ted Greenwald: Greenwald: Could anything derail us from this path? Diamandis: Yes: the risk aversion we’ve developed as a society. Lawyers have ubiquitous power. If someone is always to blame, if every time […]

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Greenwald: Could anything derail us from this path?

Diamandis: Yes: the risk aversion we’ve developed as a society. Lawyers have ubiquitous power. If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can’t be breakthroughs. I got this from Internet law expert Jonathan Zittrain: We’ve gone from a society where if something wasn’t prohibited then it was legal to a society where if something isn’t explicitly permitted it’s illegal. In the early days of aviation, you could do anything you wanted as long as it wasn’t illegal. Now the laws are so extensive that they say, “Show me where it’s allowed.”

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]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/09/peter-diamandis-interview-wired/feed/ 2 February 29 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-29-roundup/ https://www.overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-29-roundup/#comments Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:17:27 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=27828 Jackpot justice and New Jersey pharmacies (with both a Whitney Houston and a Ted Frank angle) [Fox, PoL, our Jan. 3 post] New Mexico: “Trial lawyers object to spaceport limits” [Las Cruces Bulletin] Dodd-Frank: too big not to fail [The Economist] Robert Teitelman (The Deal) on new Stephen Bainbridge book Corporate Governance After the Financial […]

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  • Jackpot justice and New Jersey pharmacies (with both a Whitney Houston and a Ted Frank angle) [Fox, PoL, our Jan. 3 post]
  • New Mexico: “Trial lawyers object to spaceport limits” [Las Cruces Bulletin]
  • Dodd-Frank: too big not to fail [The Economist] Robert Teitelman (The Deal) on new Stephen Bainbridge book Corporate Governance After the Financial Crisis [HuffPo] Securities suits: “trial lawyers probably won’t be able to defend a defective system forever” [WSJ Dealpolitik]
  • Uh-oh: U.K. Labour opposition looks at unleashing U.S.-style class actions [Guardian] “U.K. Moves ‘No Win, No Fee’ Litigation Reforms to 2013” [Suzi Ring, Legal Week]
  • More on controls on cold medicines as anti-meth measure [Radley Balko, Megan McArdle, Xeni Jardin, earlier here, here, here]
  • Recognizable at a distance: “In Germany, a Limp Domestic Economy Stifled by Regulation” [NY Times]
  • Fewer lawyers in Congress these days [WSJ Law Blog]
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