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. Note, the number of fire emoji represent how many standard deviations more popular a link is than the average link observed in its category.
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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.
- Justice Breyer Defends Judge Accused of Defying Supreme Court Order 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Nigel Farage admits he was wrong to say he had bought house in Clacton 🔥🔥🔥🔥Reform UK leader says he should not have claimed he was buyer of property that was really bought by his partner ...
- ICE Is Said to Have Begun Operation in the Boston Area 🔥🔥
- West Point alumni group cancels award ceremony for Tom Hanks 🔥The decision follows a series of political controversies involving the Trump administration that have rattled the prestigious military institution.
- Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings 🔥Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum ...
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.
- The American Dictator 🔥🔥🔥Tonight, we have the specter of an American president trying to take control of an American city for thinly veiled political reasons.
- Trump's War on America 🔥To allow Trump's autocratic allies to prosper, our military and intelligence must take on new roles at home. We can sound the alarm with those who serve.
- September 6, 2025 🔥Today the social media account of President Donald J.
- NEWS: Mike Johnson Claims Trump was an FBI Informant to Stop Jeffrey Epstein Mike Johnson says Trump was an FBI informant to stop Epstein, Trump considers strikes on Venezuela, tensions grow with South Korea amid ICE raid at Hyundai facility, and more.
- I Am Begging the Judge Who Apologized to Neil Gorsuch to Have Some Self-Respect The same justices who aren’t writing real opinions are now getting publicly upset at lower court judges for not correctly divining what those opinions might have said.
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.
- Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement† 🔥🔥🔥🔥Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.
- Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors† 🔥🔥The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases and could lead more A.I. companies to pay rights holders for use of their works.
- Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material† 🔥Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.
- What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild Today, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it downloaded pirated books to train its AI systems—the largest U.S. copyright settlement in history. The parties in Bartz v Anthropic...
- AI firm Anthropic reaches landmark $1.5B copyright deal with book authors† The company behind the chatbot Claude avoided trial over claims it improperly downloaded millions of books.
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.
- What Law Schools Teach When They Don’t Teach About State Constitutions† 🔥State constitutional law has always been an essential component of federalism and a key to understanding the fabric of American law. It is even more important t ...
- Remembering Congress in the Myers-to-Humphrey's Interregnum The Supreme Court’s push to vindicate the unitary executive has been shaped by a dominant narrative depicting Humphrey’s Executor v. United States<
- What the Realists Got Right† For the past several decades, realists and formalists have been deeply at odds. They have, however, mostly been talking past one another, with each side trad ...
- Corruption and the Supreme Court Corruption is everywhere at the Supreme Court. The justices routinely rule on what is—and, more frequently, what is not—corrupt. Simultaneously, their off-the-b ...
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.
- Detecting LLM-Generated Peer Reviews† 🔥🔥The integrity of peer review is fundamental to scientific progress, but the rise of large language models (LLMs) has introduced concerns that some reviewers may rely on these tools to generate...
- Hallucination to Consensus: Multi-Agent LLMs for End-to-End Test Generation with Accurate Oracles† 🔥Unit testing plays a critical role in ensuring software correctness. However, writing unit tests manually is laborious, especially for strong typed languages like Java, motivating the need for automat...
- Consumer Law for AI Agents 🔥Since the public release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation. Currently, the use of AI chatbots by consumers has largely been limited to image generation...
- What Would an LLM Do? Evaluating Policymaking Capabilities of Large Language Models 🔥Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being adopted in high-stakes domains. Their capacity to process vast amounts of unstructured data, explore flexible scenarios, and handle a diversity of c...
- Speaking the Right Language: The Impact of Expertise Alignment in User-AI Interactions
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)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Michael Clemens (@mclem.org) (promoted)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)
- Liz Dye (@lizdye.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Walter Olson (@walterolson.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) (promoted)
- More Abstract Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sam Bagenstos (@sbagen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Ho (@davidho.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Menschel (@davidmenschel.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dan Sohege (@danielsohege.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) (relegated)
- Ann M. Lipton (@annmlipton.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof (@evanbernick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael (@fleerultra.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Katie Phang (@katiephang.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Law + Tech News Bot (@news.bot.suffolklitlab.org) (relegated)
- Dan Immergluck (@danimmergluck.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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