Arthur and the Law
As Dan adjusts to life with Cubby, the great question is how we balance scholarship with parenthood. One possible answer: You never know when legal scholarship will appear in unexpected places. Case in point:
Today on Arthur (my daughter’s post-nap show of choice), an expensive cake plate was broken in the living room and a video/audio recording seemed to show that the plate had broken while Arthur and his friend were throwing a baseball around on their way to play outside. And everyone’s immediate conclusion upon watching the tape was that Arthur was responsible for breaking the plate. But breaking the recording down, along with outside investigation, showed that conclusion was wrong.
In other words, the episode illustrated the central point in my recent article on video evidence. As I said, you never know.
Posted by Howard Wasserman on August 10, 2009 at 04:45 PM
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I have to give my now-teenaged son credit for many of my best scholarly ideas over the past 15 years. E.g., an article I published when he was around six had the title “Breakfast with Batman,” and its insights, purportedly matters of trademark law, were almost exclusively parental.
Posted by: Jessica Litman | Aug 11, 2009 1:30:38 PM