Cybernetics, Contracts, and Specific Performance
Brett asks a question inspired by Deus Ex: Human Revolution, the recently-released prequel to the fantastic Deus Ex. The question is whether an employment contract can include a requirement that the...
View ArticleDaredevil #4
In issue 4 of Daredevil, the firm of Murdock & Nelson continues the new business model we discussed in the last Daredevil post: helping their clients represent themselves in court. Issue 4...
View ArticleSuperhero Corporations I: Vicarious Liability
There are several superhero characters that also happen to be executives of major corporations. Batman, as Bruce Wayne, is the head of Wayne Industries. Tony Stark runs Stark Industries. Reed Richards...
View ArticleLaw and the Multiverse Holiday Special: Batman: Noel
For this year’s Law and the Multiverse’s Christmas post, we’re going to be taking a quick look at Batman: Noel, the graphic novel written and illustrated by Lee Bermejo that came out last month. It’s a...
View ArticleGotham Central: Half a Life
The Eisner award-winning “Half a Life” storyline comprises Gotham Central # 6-10, and was first published in 2003. Rather than focusing on a crime, this story is mostly about the outing of Detective...
View ArticleGreen Arrow # 77
This week we return to our ongoing series on the Green Lantern/Green Arrow collaboration from the early 1970s. The conceit for this story line was set up in the aftermath of issue # 76, in which Green...
View ArticleMutant Discrimination: GINA, Genetics and How Professor Xavier is Breaking...
This guest column was contributed by Dan Vorhaus, an attorney at Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. and Editor of the Genomics Law Report. Previous posts here at Law and the Multiverse have...
View ArticleThe Surrogates: Flesh and Bone
The Surrogates is a limited-run 2005-06 comic series about which we did two posts (1, 2) late last year, and which was made into a movie starring Bruce Willis in 2010. This time we’re writing about the...
View ArticleLois Lane’s Employment Contract
This will probably be our last post on Man of Steel. No spoiler warning on this one, as I can set up the issue without giving anything of consequence away. In Man of Steel, Lois Lane works as a...
View ArticleShe-Hulk #2
Today’s post is a short one based on the second issue of Charles Soule’s run of She-Hulk. Soule continues to do great work, though this issue doesn’t have quite as many legal issues to discuss. A big...
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