Posted in Clippings, Commentary, Second Life, VB Features, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on April 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
The popular website Something Awful found VB last weekend and linked to us not once, but twice, in a witty article by Chris “Petey” Peterson entitled Second Life Sucks: The Reckoning. Your faithful editor takes one in the teeth for starting the Second Life Bar Association and thus confirming that “the legal profession has indeed [...]
Posted in Contract Law, Criminal Law, Second Life, Tort Law, Virtual Law, Virtual Worlds & Games on April 24th, 2007 47 Comments »
Belgian newspapers De Morgen and Het Laatste Nieuws reported Friday that “the Brussels public prosecutor has asked patrol detectives of the Federal Computer Crime Unit to go on Second Life” to investigate a “virtual rape” involving a Belgian user of Second Life. (Translations from FreeTranslation.com’s web page translator.) Website WTFsrsly (that’s “what the f***, seriously,” [...]
Posted in Property Law, Second Life, Virtual Law, Virtual Legal Education, Virtual Worlds & Games on April 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Elizabeth Townsend Gard, a Visiting Professor at the Seattle University School of Law, has her 1L Property students exploring Second Life using the avatar ‘Fizzy Soderberg’ and posting weekly screencasts on property law as applied to virtual worlds. The class has covered several topics of potential interest to VB readers, including in-world marriage and divorce, [...]
Posted in Second Life, Virtual Law, Virtual Legal Orgs., Virtual Pro Bono, Virtual Worlds & Games on April 19th, 2007 No Comments »
The Second Life Bar Association (SLBA) held its first large-scale organizational meeting yesterday at the Capitol Hill North public meeting space in Second Life. The meeting was attended by about 25 avatars, most of whom identified themselves as attorneys, law students, or law librarians. Discussion focused on the SLBA’s plans for projects for 2007, which [...]
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