Chris Sprigman
@cjsprigman.bsky.social
Murray and Kathleen Bring Prof., NYU Law. IP, antitrust, behavioral econ, occasional con law (bad for my health). ssrn.com/author=370802. Partner, lex-lumina.com. https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=profile.overview&personid=37891
Everywhere you go in Freiburg, if you look, you can find the horror of the past. Here, outside what is now a university building, are the remembrance markers of a family missing and murdered.
February 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Everywhere you go in Freiburg, if you look, you can find the horror of the past. Here, outside what is now a university building, are the remembrance markers of a family missing and murdered.
For me, laundromats are a great pleasure of traveling. They’re relaxing, social, and you get to have a coffee and read. And German laundromats are tops.
February 7, 2026 at 11:32 AM
For me, laundromats are a great pleasure of traveling. They’re relaxing, social, and you get to have a coffee and read. And German laundromats are tops.
Freiburg: 3 women were burned as witches outside this McDonald‘s in 1599.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Freiburg: 3 women were burned as witches outside this McDonald‘s in 1599.
Das Freiburger Münster. Just now.
February 3, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Das Freiburger Münster. Just now.
Freiburg, this morning: memories of a better time.
February 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Freiburg, this morning: memories of a better time.
Harmeet Dhillon is the person UVA surrendered to. It's like having a baby take your candy.
January 28, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Harmeet Dhillon is the person UVA surrendered to. It's like having a baby take your candy.
As a copyright lawyer, I know my brain is broken because all I can think about when I see this is the idea/expression distinction and its ineffability when applied to musical works.
January 27, 2026 at 4:24 PM
As a copyright lawyer, I know my brain is broken because all I can think about when I see this is the idea/expression distinction and its ineffability when applied to musical works.
I do not typically take my cues from David Frum, but this is exactly right. I am in no mood for kumbaya and likely never will be, b/c I know that if the country descends into violence, almost all of Trump's followers will happily put to the stake whoever stands in Trump's way.
January 25, 2026 at 9:06 PM
I do not typically take my cues from David Frum, but this is exactly right. I am in no mood for kumbaya and likely never will be, b/c I know that if the country descends into violence, almost all of Trump's followers will happily put to the stake whoever stands in Trump's way.
People making excuses for ICE's execution of Alex Pretti would have been making excuses for the Nazis. That's the level of moral blindness that is required not to acknowledge what's right in front of our faces.
January 25, 2026 at 8:08 PM
People making excuses for ICE's execution of Alex Pretti would have been making excuses for the Nazis. That's the level of moral blindness that is required not to acknowledge what's right in front of our faces.
Lol. NOW is in allcaps, so now Chuck really means it.
January 24, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Lol. NOW is in allcaps, so now Chuck really means it.
As a general rule IDGAF what the framers had in mind. But I'm pretty sure this is not what the framers had in mind.
January 24, 2026 at 5:50 PM
As a general rule IDGAF what the framers had in mind. But I'm pretty sure this is not what the framers had in mind.
As a parent, I find it difficult to bear the thought of how terrified this little guy must be right now--and how our government has harmed this kid possibly for Iife.
People who support this barbarism are scum.
People who support this barbarism are scum.
January 22, 2026 at 3:24 AM
As a parent, I find it difficult to bear the thought of how terrified this little guy must be right now--and how our government has harmed this kid possibly for Iife.
People who support this barbarism are scum.
People who support this barbarism are scum.
A madman. And yet GOP cowards and weaklings will follow all the way to the very bottom.
January 19, 2026 at 1:59 PM
A madman. And yet GOP cowards and weaklings will follow all the way to the very bottom.
Here's an example. Hakeem Jeffries is threatening retribution against Trump's lackeys. Does anyone believe that even if voters hand the Dems a governing trifecta that Jeffries and Schumer are going to do the hard work of accountability? I don't.
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Here's an example. Hakeem Jeffries is threatening retribution against Trump's lackeys. Does anyone believe that even if voters hand the Dems a governing trifecta that Jeffries and Schumer are going to do the hard work of accountability? I don't.
Why can't the NY Times just straight-up say that Noem is lying?
January 8, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Why can't the NY Times just straight-up say that Noem is lying?
I will never forgive the GOP politicians who aided and abetted this, or who were too cowardly to stand against it. Nor will I forgive the "centrist" Democratic politicians who were so shitty and weak that it seemed sensible to many otherwise decent people to return the man responsible to power.
January 6, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I will never forgive the GOP politicians who aided and abetted this, or who were too cowardly to stand against it. Nor will I forgive the "centrist" Democratic politicians who were so shitty and weak that it seemed sensible to many otherwise decent people to return the man responsible to power.
I think the words he's looking for are "outdated" and "indifferent to human needs."
January 1, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I think the words he's looking for are "outdated" and "indifferent to human needs."
"To live in NY, to love NY, is to know that we are the stewards of something without equal in our world. Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of san cocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block?"
January 1, 2026 at 9:35 PM
"To live in NY, to love NY, is to know that we are the stewards of something without equal in our world. Where else can you hear the sound of the steel pan, savor the smell of san cocho, and pay $9 for coffee on the same block?"
I won't link to the article, but this is the NY Post's reaction to Rama Duwaji expressing some sadness at leaving Astoria, the great Queens neighborhood in which she has lived happily for years. The NY Post is a cancer on NYC.
December 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I won't link to the article, but this is the NY Post's reaction to Rama Duwaji expressing some sadness at leaving Astoria, the great Queens neighborhood in which she has lived happily for years. The NY Post is a cancer on NYC.
It's confusing b/c none of these people are even minimally decent. And yet some are more monstrous than others.
December 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It's confusing b/c none of these people are even minimally decent. And yet some are more monstrous than others.
Sitting here thinking about how much joy Rob Reiner brought to us. Spinal Tap is one of my favorite movies ever. When I was maybe 17, I rented it to watch with my dad, who hadn't heard of it before. A few minutes in, he said, sheepishly, "couldn't they have made a movie about a better band?" 1/
December 16, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Sitting here thinking about how much joy Rob Reiner brought to us. Spinal Tap is one of my favorite movies ever. When I was maybe 17, I rented it to watch with my dad, who hadn't heard of it before. A few minutes in, he said, sheepishly, "couldn't they have made a movie about a better band?" 1/
This was never going to happen. Because there is nowhere else in the U.S. (and certainly not Florida, FFS) where an ultra-rich person can live as sumptuously as in NYC, or where they can lord it over the peasants so comprehensively (in terms of real estate, private schools, clubs, etc.)
December 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This was never going to happen. Because there is nowhere else in the U.S. (and certainly not Florida, FFS) where an ultra-rich person can live as sumptuously as in NYC, or where they can lord it over the peasants so comprehensively (in terms of real estate, private schools, clubs, etc.)