Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new: Culture, like science and technology, grows by accretion, each new creator building… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign,… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
My advice would be to whoever is going after judges by name, whether it's the president or anybody else, I think it's a terrible… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded. — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
When the president, Donald Trump, is a litigant I think it's wise for him not to comment on the judges. It's not going to… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is. — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
The First Amendment is really at the very core of political speech, and political speech is at the core of the First Amendment. So,… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it. — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law… — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
If we as a society are willing to take away human life, we should be willing to watch it. — Alex Kozinski Copy Share Image
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