Category Archives: conventions and talks

Join me and the Lawyers Club of San Diego for a virtual happy hour this Thursday, May 20th, from 5:30pm – 7pm Pacific including, of course, a discussion of the law of superheroes! Registration is free and open to members and non-members of the Lawyers Club.

On Thursday May 21st at 6pm Eastern I will be participating in a (free!) online panel discussion of law and popular culture, sponsored by the Filipino American Lawyers Association of Washington, DC! The panel includes famed graphic novelist Amy Chu and Law and the Multiverse contributor Scott Maravilla. Online registration is free, and we hope to see you all there!

For DC-area readers: I will be at Awesome Con in Washington, DC this Friday, April 26th! I will be part of a panel on “Law and Order in Comics” along with Law and the Multiverse contributors Scott Maravilla and Brad Desnoyer as well as She-Hulk and Daredevil writer Charles Soule! Come check us at in Room 154 at 1:30pm!

Not Guilty Due to Zombification? Law and Forensic Psychiatry in a Zombie Apocalypse is at Comic-Con tomorrow, Thursday July 18th from 8pm-9:30pm in Room 7AB.  So far 610 people have marked themselves down as attending on the scheduling website, so it looks like we’ll have a pretty good crowd.  We hope to see you all there!

My local comic book store, Star Clipper, is putting on a series of free lectures and movie screenings this summer called Comics University.  Attendees can earn coupons, gift cards, and other prizes, and the course list looks like a lot of fun—and not just because I’m teaching a class on The Law of Superheroes on Wednesday, July 31st.  Like the other Comics U classes, it will run from 7pm to 9pm.  If you’re in the St. Louis area I hope to see you there!

(NB: There will always be standing room, but to reserve a seat for a class, send an email to comicsu@starclipper.com the day after a class to register for the following class.  For example, to register for The Law of Superheroes, send an email on Thursday, July 25th.)

Last Saturday, May 18, I gave the keynote address at the 2013 Metropolitan Washington Mensa’s Regional Gathering. The address was entitled “This Is Not the Worst Thing You’ve Caught Me Doing: Iron Man, Comics, and the Law” and focused on the legal issues related to the Iron Man character, particularly as presented in the recent movies. Topics included weapons regulation, ITAR, the FAA and air traffic control and whether Stark might be liable for a DUI or related offense for using the Iron Man armor whilst drunk.

Pictures of the keynote inside! Continue reading →