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Michael Madison

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Knowledge Commons researcher. Future Law advocate. Football supporter. Silicon Valley ex-pat. "Everything In Between" on Substack. Next up: "Your Leadership Podcast." Lost on Jeopardy!. Looking around corners. By day, I'm a law professor. .. more

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Starting Again

“Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and other systems and institutions that seem terribly far away: “the market,” “the state,” the universe, and so on.

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Burn the Boats

Can we build a better one? Hernán Cortés (Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano), or perhaps Alexander the Great, is credited with the instruction to his sailors to “burn the boats” after landing, a phrase that comes down to modern practice as an injunction to commit fearlessly to the ta…

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · 23d

Heard. See @patentscholar.bsky.social 's "Classic Patent Scholarship" project, writtendescription.blogspot.com/p/classic-sc..., which builds on my "Lost Classics of Intellectual Property Law," available on SSRN. Newton, Hooke, OTSOG, and all that.

Classic Patent Scholarship

Lisa Larrimore Ouellette's Patent & IP Blog, Reviewing Recent Scholarship on Patent Law, IP Theory, and Innovation

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"Think Big, Think Positive"

An 80s comedy about class resentment and disruptive innovation bookends a post about how institutional adaptation might work in the AI era “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and…

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What For?

Is it even possible to build a better university? “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and other systems an…

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Dead Parrots and Universities

Putting the past behind us, and building foundations for the future “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and other systems and institutions th…

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The Flow of Things

"Just keep swimming"? “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and other systems and institutions that seem terribly far away…

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The Institutions are Alright

Long Live Rock? “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and other systems and institutions that seem t…

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Fixing the University

But first ... “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between…

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The Paris of Higher Education

On looking backward and forward “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and other systems and institutions that seem terribly far away:…

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Feb 8

New in knowledge commons research: "Is Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Governable? Towards Machine Sovereignty and Human Symbiosis" from Botao "Amber" Hu, Helena Rong, and Janna Tay. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Is Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Governable? Towards Machine Sovereignty and Human Symbiosis

<div> The rise of decentralized artificial intelligence (DeAI) represents a transformative shift in AI development, leveraging blockchain and distributed ledge

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Feb 6

Me, new on Substack: "Disappointed: What do we talk about when we talk about the challenges facing higher education." I use the recent Penn panel on the future of American universities as a jumping off point. More to come. profmadison.substack.com/p/disappointed

Disappointed

What do we talk about when we talk about the challenges facing higher education

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Disappointed

What do we talk about when we talk about the challenges facing higher education “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and other systems and institutions that seem …

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Feb 3

Today in knowledge commons research: "Unpacking Open Source Bio," a collection of mini-case studies of knowledge commons from the inimitable @jcontreras.bsky.social. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Unpacking Open Source Bio

For at least a quarter of a century, life science researchers around the world have undertaken initiatives loosely based on principles, goals, and institutional

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 27

Social media day, round 2: On Substack, I have another in my weekly series of essays about the future of universities. "A Pixar Interlude: What planet is higher education reform ... on?" profmadison.substack.com/p/a-pixar-in...

A Pixar Interlude

What planet is higher education reform ... on?

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 27

It's social media day. The newest episode of "Your Leadership Podcast" with me and Kathy Edersheim is available at open.spotify.com/episode/1huU...

Does leadership begin with voice?

Your Leadership Podcast · Episode

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A Pixar Interlude

What planet is higher education reform ... on? “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between gro…

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 26

"Things" and their attributes are the MacGuffins of property law. I'll post links to the occasional new paper. Today's excellent entry: "Personal Property Servitudes Revisited" by Daniel Klerman and Stefan Bechtold. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 21

While I'm at it: I'm co-hosting a new podcast, called "Your Leadership Podcast." Tasty conversational morsels delivered once every two weeks. Find it here: open.spotify.com/show/633QIpk...

Your Leadership Podcast

Podcast · Michael Madison and Kathy Edersheim · “Your Leadership Podcast” is about you and your leadership journey. Co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison take a conversational approach, making lea...

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 21

Catching up on my Substack essays on the future of higher education, here's the most recent: "Choosing to Choose:
How a university decides." profmadison.substack.com/p/choosing-t...

Choosing to Choose

How a university decides

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 21

New in knowledge commons scholarship: "Access to Justice as Access to Data" by Tanina Rostain @georgetownlaw.bsky.social scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol119/...

Access to Justice as Access to Data

This Keynote Address, delivered in celebration of the launch of SCALES, discusses the importance of making local and state court data available for research on the functioning of the American civil ju...

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Choosing to Choose

How a university decides “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and other s…

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A University Bundle of Joy

A heuristic to start the new year “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and other systems and institutions that seem terribly far away: “the market,” “the state,” the …

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 9

Also new in knowledge commons scholarship: Christopher Mirasola, "Common Heritage as Public Trust: A Property Law Approach to Managing Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction" in the Southern California Law Review. southerncalifornialawreview.com/2024/10/31/c...

Common Heritage as Public Trust: A Property Law Approach to Managing Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction – Southern California Law Review

The search for rare minerals is taking us well beyond the bounds of national jurisdiction, and international law is struggling to keep up. In the 1970s states agreed that the deep seabed beyond nation...

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Jan 9

New in knowledge commons scholarship: Margaret (Maggie) Chon, "Relational Innovation and the Public Benefits of Copying," in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. btlj.org/wp-content/u...

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I Am Not Left-Handed

Something new for the new year “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and between us and other systems and institutions that seem terribly far away: “the mar…

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12 Balls for the New Year

A meta post about playing, thinking, and learning “Everything in Between” is about the systems, institutions, and practices that people build, “things” of a sort that sit in between us, between groups of us, between “us” and “them,” and bet…

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 28

A neat new knowledge commons project: @institutionaldatainitiative.org

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Michael Madison @michaelmadison.bsky.social · Dec 25

The gift of Pittsburgh. I am passing it along. www.pittsburghmagazine.com/pittsburgh-i...

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Please Stand By

I'll be back in the new year I’m taking a break. “Everything in Between” will return after January 1. Thanks for reading Everything In Between! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

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