Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the co-director of Suffolk University Law School's Legal Innovation & Technology (LIT) Lab. With one foot in law and the other in tech, I really want the open web to thrive. So I created a bot (@icymilaw.org) and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content while showing off what one can do with sufficiently open protocols.
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In addition to the RSS feeds below, here's the legal tech feed 
powering @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org (another bot of mine).
Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
News-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹ by legal-type folks² with URLs that look like they point to news articles,³ sorted by popularity.
- Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the state attorney general to investigate a former Cornell University student’s allegation of rape. The woman has sued seven men in connection with the alleged assault.
- Exclusive: Major Republican fundraiser winning contracts from Trump administration, emails reveal 🔥🔥Palmer Luckey has donated $5.9m to Republicans and bundled more, while reaping billions in Pentagon contracts ...
- John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. 🔥After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
- Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article) 🔥The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
- Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped (Gift Article) 🔥Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
Blog-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁴ by legal-type folks⁵ with URLs that look like they point to blogs/newsletters,⁶ sorted by popularity.
- Finally. Volume II. 🔥🔥🔥Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago report should be public. Donald Trump wants to keep that from happening.
- Americans Can Stop Trump’s Unconstitutional Coup at Any Stage 🔥Trump's ambassador reportedly threatened to overthrow Greece's elected government, as the Justice Department criminally investigates Jack Smith.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 471. 10/1/26 🔥… Renee Good’s partner and family have filed two lawsuits stemming from her death - one against at the ICE agent who shot her and a several senior Trump admin officials, the other against the federal ...
- Another Bad Day in Court for Trump 🔥Today, as Trump was busy trying (and failing) to convince his own people that “affordability” is a word made up by Democrats, the courts were having a field day with him.
- Trump, Power, What Comes Next with Robert Reich A recording from Timothy Snyder and Robert Reich's conversation ...
AI & The Law Links
A collection of links shared recently⁷ on Bluesky that look like they talk about AI & the law,⁸ sorted by popularity.
- Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet† 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
- Even Trump's AI won't back his election lies† 🔥🔥
- Eric Schmitts the Bed† 🔥🔥Plus: Trump’s dangerous, reckless embrace of AI.
- OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models† 🔥Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
- Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them. 🔥In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
- Opinion | Trump Wants A.I. Companies to Police Themselves. What Can Go Wrong? (Gift Article) 🔥Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.
- What Do Dictators and Rogue AI Have in Common? Trump's Overwhelming Love† 🔥Ambassador Susan Rice warns that unregulated AI will kill civilians and arm hostile parties.
Law Review-like Links
A collection of links shared recently⁹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers in law journals or the like,¹⁰ sorted by popularity.
- Is the Unitary Executive Democratic or Autocratic Governance? 🔥🔥This essay examines whether the unitary executive theory provides for democratic or autocratic governance. It argues that the unitary executive theory's underly ...
- Religious Land Use Exceptionalism: The Meaning of "Substantial Burden" in RLUIPA Religious organizations have fairly predictable needs that come into conflict with the interests of local government. In a land use context, a religious organiz ...
- College Sports Eligibility and Antitrust Law Revenue-generating college sports have been on a collision course with federal antitrust law for more than forty years, with the newest wave of disputes involvi ...
- The Vesting Clauses Are Not Law Separation-of-powers formalists treat the Constitution’s Vesting Clauses—the first sentences of Articles I, II, and III—as sources of substantive law. Perhaps m ...
- Three Accusations against Israel: Apartheid, Settler Colonialism, and Genocide under Legal and Historical Scrutiny† This article examines three recurrent classifications of Israel and its conduct: apartheid, settler colonialism, and genocide. It treats apartheid and genocide ...
AI Paper-like Links
A collection of links shared recently¹¹ on Bluesky that look like they point to papers on AI,¹² sorted by popularity. Wondering why this section is on a site about the law? Well, I teach a course on AI & the Law, and it turns out that understanding this stuff is super important to figuring out what the law might have to say. So, I figured since I was sharing lists, I might as well share this one too.
- Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…
- JEV vs. LLMs as Rubric Judges: Cheaper, Faster, and Wrong in the Same Places† 🔥We ask whether Jev, a typed classifier that returns probabilities over permitted answers without generating text, can replace an LLM rubric judge. We compare it with three flash-tier LLM judges on nin...
- Persona and Persuasive Framing in AI Voice Agents: A $2\times2$ Field Experiment with Children 🔥ArXiv link for Persona and Persuasive Framing in AI Voice Agents: A $2\times2$ Field Experiment with Children ...
- Doc2LoRA Provides Decodable Representations of Scientific Ideas Representing scientific papers as points in a space lets us search for similar papers and inquire about how fields relate to one another and drive innovation. Beyond search, the vector space of papers...
- Pretrain Once, Route Anywhere: Towards a Foundation Model for LLM Routing† Large language model (LLM) routing aims to assign each query to the most suitable model from a heterogeneous candidate pool, improving the quality--efficiency trade-off of LLM inference. Existing routers are typically learned through local fitting: a router is optimized for a particular query workl…
The High Score
The 20 accounts most reposted by @icymilaw.org over the past week¹³ (the list below is updated every Sunday). High Score, get it? One Score = 20, as in, "four score and seven years ago." ;)
- ICYMI (Law) (@icymilaw.org)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org)
- Jay Willis (@jaywillis.net) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- CREW (@citizensforethics.org) (promoted)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Good Law Project (@goodlawproject.org) (promoted)
- Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jessica Pishko (@jesspish.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) (promoted)
- The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 (@professormusgrave.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) (relegated)
- New York Attorney General Letitia James (@newyorkstateag.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Sarah Szalavitz💡 (@dearsarah.bsky.social) (relegated)
- ❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ (@sababausa.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie (@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- The Empty City (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
† This link was also in yesterday's digest. ¹ Approx. 1 day lookback. ² Attorneys, law profs, et al. ³ News-like links (law) ⁴ Supra note 1. ⁵ Supra note 2. ⁶ Blog-like links (law) ⁷ Approx. 3.5 days lookback. ⁸ AI & the Law ⁹ Approx. 1 week lookback. ¹⁰ Law Review-like ¹¹ Supra note 9. ¹² AI Papers et al. ¹³ High Score
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