The Rundown February 12, 2020

The holidays and January just flew by, with all its volcanic explosions and its plagues. Just a few updates, more for myself and for coherence:

• A new semester is underway and I’m teaching two new subjects - Administrative Law for the J.D.’s and International Finance and Banking Regulations for the LL.M.’s.

• I’m helping launch the country’s first online peer-reviewed law journal.

• I’m helping organize (once again) an international law conference, by building their conference website (with regisration, call for papers, the works). Hey maybe the articles can feed into the journal?

• I poked at some assholes’ bubble of self-affirmation. It felt nice, although I may have come on too strong. There’s no need to hurry. This is a generation-spanning project.

• Trying to write several papers at the same time (here we go again):

  • An overview of the Digital Silk and Road, and how it comes with Chinese network governance embedded in its technology stack.

  • A summary of Philippine Air and Space Law, organized layer by layer from drone space to air traffic space to outer space (because we have a space policy now)

  • A reflection piece about electronic research and writing in time for the 10th anniversary of the Vinuya decision

  • Something about fake news (sorry, coordinated inauthentic behavior) for the IBP journal

  • Something about the PPSA - I am curious about its notion of traceability (something found locally only in the rules of civil forfeiture), which modifies how we deal with accessions and fixtures.

  • Still finishing my paper on the Torre de Manila case.