Greetings, my name is David Colarusso. I'm the 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, esp. #LawFedi. So I created a bot and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content. You can get a look at their algos/workflows here.
If you like what you see, consider joining Mastodon and following @icymi_law@esq.social, the bot feeding this page content.
FWIW, here are some law-flavored server suggestions: (1) esq.social (legal general interest); and (2) mastodon.lawprofs.org (legal academics). Also, here are Some Tricks [For] Making Mastodon Way More Useful.
Top Posts
Most-Shared Links
Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹
- Hundreds of books are usually banned by just ONE person in a community - EveryLibrary Action (~3 shares)
- PhD student / doctoral candidate in Machine Learning and Law (m/f/d, E 13 TV-L, 75 %) | Universität Tübingen (~3 shares)
- High Seas Radiotelephone Antenna, Ocean Gate, NJ | 28 Novemb… | Flickr (~3 shares)
- The spinelessness of John Roberts - by Chris Geidner (~3 shares)
- Google: AI Potentially Breaking Reality Is a Feature Not a Bug (~2 shares)
- History shows Australian laws have left minorities marginalised. A Human Rights Act would help fix that | Michael Kirby | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Legal Aid Alberta says province terminated its contract | CBC News (~2 shares)
- DRINKING WATER ADVISORY: DC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory for All Customers in the District of Columbia, the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Reagan National Airport | DC Water (~2 shares)
- American slavery wasn’t just a white man’s business − new research shows how white women profited, too (~2 shares)
- Project 2025 creator celebrates SCOTUS immunity ruling (~2 shares)
- Project MUSE - Misunderstanding Democratic Backsliding (~2 shares)
¹ Yesterday includes yesterday plus anytime today before this page was published. See footer.
SSRN Roundup
I keep an eye out for links to SSRN. Once I collect five, I share them. This is the most-recent bundle.²
- Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts by Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li, Charles C. Y. Wang
- Section 230's Debts by Blake E. Reid
- Crisis and Change at the United Nations: Non-Amendment Reform and Institutional Evolution by Oona A. Hathaway, Maggie Mills, Heather Zimmerman
- Network Neutrality as Governance Seam by Brett M. Frischmann , Blake E. Reid
- [couldn't read title]
² Depending on how much folks are sharing, there could be more or less than one bundle per day, this is just the most-recent one.
Traffic
Of course, these insights are all thanks to a community of users, namely the folks I follow over at @icymi_law@esq.social. For fun, here's a look at their posting traffic yesterday. I like trying to create stories about the daily ups and downs. What is that bump? ;)
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