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.
- Opinion | I Resigned as Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney. Law Schools Are Missing the Point of My Story. 🔥🔥🔥
- Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 🔥🔥🔥Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel ...
- Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials 🔥🔥🔥
- ‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers 🔥🔥Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread ...
- They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain. 🔥🔥
- They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives. 🔥
- While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik 🔥Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik ...
- Millions more homes in Great Britain at risk of flooding, investigation finds 🔥Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable ...
- News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline 🔥The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.
- Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email† 🔥Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010 ...
- Majority of family court cases in England and Wales feature domestic abuse, watchdog says 🔥Commissioner’s review found 87% of cases uncovered physical, psychological or sexual abuse of a family member ...
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 Irredeemable DOJ 🔥🔥🔥Why James has an even stronger case of selective prosecution than Comey.
- Are We the Nazis Now? 🔥How do we meet this moment?
- Gaza and Protest 🔥Why freedom of speech matters ...
- Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
- Today in Politics, Bulletin 228. 10/13/25 … The upcoming No Kings protests this Saturday continue to rattle Republicans who are stressing out that the size and scope of the events will step on their messaging about the shutdown.
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.
- What Happened When AI Came for Craft Beer 🔥🔥🔥🔥A prominent beer competition introduced an AI-judging tool without warning. The judges and some members of the wider brewing industry were pissed.
- SCOTUS Justice Alito Suggests He's Not Interested in Overturning Same-Sex Marriage. Is That True? 🔥🔥Obergefell v Hodges has been back in the spotlight with fears gay marriage could be removed as a national right.
- California just passed a new law requiring AI to tell you it’s AI 🔥🔥If you’re a chatbot you have to tell me.
- California, Tell Governor Newsom: Regulate AI Police Reports and Sign† 🔥Californians should urge Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign S.B. 524: a common-sense bill that takes important first-step reforms to regulate police reports written by generative AI. This is crucial, as ...
- OpenAI allegedly sent police to an AI regulation advocate’s door OpenAI reportedly wanted to find out if the advocates received funding from Elon Musk.
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.
- The Crisis of Appropriations Law† 🔥🔥🔥Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation principle ...
- The Right to Violence† Scholars have long contended that the state has a monopoly on the use of violence. This monopoly is considered essential for the state to assure the safety and ...
- Algorithmic Ethics in an Era of Agentic AI Advocacy: An Analysis of AI's Impact on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Model Code of Judicial Conduct Accepted for publication in Volume 16 of the St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics (forthcoming, 2026). The American legal profession s ...
- The Psychology of a Favor: Why Hidden Witness Payments Demand a New Brady Rule Police and prosecutors regularly pay money to informants and other witnesses in criminal cases. These payments can be in the form of rewards, relocation expense ...
- Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning A View from German Criminal Law † How may experimental jurisprudence contribute to legal questions or advance legal scholarship? This chapter provides a preliminary perspective from German crimi ...
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.
- Super-intelligence or Superstition? Exploring Psychological Factors Underlying Unwarranted Belief in AI Predictions† 🔥🔥🔥
- Foundation Models for Astrobiology: Paper I -- Workshop and Overview 🔥Advances in machine learning over the past decade have resulted in a proliferation of algorithmic applications for encoding, characterizing, and acting on complex data that may contain many high dimen...
- How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?† Advanced AI systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available. In this paper, we discuss the impacts that generative artificial intelligence may have on demo...
- Algorithmic Ethics in an Era of Agentic AI Advocacy: An Analysis of AI's Impact on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Model Code of Judicial Conduct Accepted for publication in Volume 16 of the St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics (forthcoming, 2026). The American legal profession s ...
- Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education Large Language Models (LLMs) have shifted in just a few years from novelty to ubiquity, raising fundamental questions for data science education. Tasks once used to teach coding, writing, and…
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)
- David Colarusso (@davidcolarusso.com) (promoted)
- Harry Litman (@harrylitman.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
- Matthew Segal (@segalmr.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) (promoted)
- Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Paul Gowder (@gowder.io) (promoted)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com)
- Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social)
- Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Schwartz (@jswatz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social)
- Tormented🕷Abroad (@jjgass.bsky.social)
- Julie DiCaro (@juliedicaro.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Nicholas Grossman (@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- David Noll (@david.noll.org) (relegated)
- Professa Murray (@kalimurray.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Anna Bower (@annabower.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Rick Hasen (@rickhasen.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Corey Rayburn Yung (@coreyryung.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Quinta Jurecic (@qjurecic.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joey Fishkin (@fishkin.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Zoe Tillman (@zoetillman.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Eric Columbus (@ericcolumbus.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.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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