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.
- F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
- D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests
- Can ICE Enter a Home to Make an Arrest With Only an Administrative Warrant? A tentative take, on both the rights and the remedies.
- Rejecting Decades of Science, Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
- UK not ready to sign up to Donald Trump’s ‘board of peace’, says Yvette Cooper Foreign secretary says Britain supports president’s Gaza plan but there are concerns around involvement of Putin ...
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.
- Breaking the Fourth Amendment 🔥🔥🔥Last night, we learned from a report in the Associated Press that ICE, contrary to longstanding Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, is taking the position that it can enter people’s homes without a judici...
- Jack Smith Will Not Be Silenced 🔥Finally, the former Special Counsel speaks the truth in public, while the vengeful target of his criminal investigation continues to spread lies ...
- Past the breaking point 🔥The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warning ...
- Trump’s Chilling Weaponization of Confidential Government Records 🔥Remind me—who else in history made lists of Jewish intellectuals and people with disabilities?
- Important Update: Trump Ignites International Firestorm, ICE Detains 2 Year Old, Mass Protests Break Out as Trump Grows Frustrated Good afternoon, everyone.
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.
- X shows why stricter tech regulation is necessary 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥We need comprehensive rules on social media far more than age limits ...
- Man Who Had Managed Mental Illness Effectively for Years Says ChatGPT Sent Him Into Hospitalization for Psychosis† 🔥🔥John Jacquez successfully managed a mental illness for years, he says. Then ChatGPT reinforced delusions, spiraling him into "AI psychosis."
- Pro-AI Super PACs Are Already All In on the Midterms† 🔥Silicon Valley’s battle against AI regulation is already shaping the next US election cycle.
- White House pushes manipulated image of arrest of Minnesota civil rights attorney 🔥As one prominent political scientist summarized, “We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.”
- Asking Grok to delete fake nudes may force victims to sue in Musk's chosen court 🔥Millions likely harmed by Grok-edited sex images as X advertisers shrugged.
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.
- Which Patent Case Matters Most? 🔥🔥We study how often Supreme Court patent cases are cited in law review articles, and compare our findings to our prior work that discussed how often the same ...
- Birthright Citizenship, Unwritten Constitutionalism, and the Nature of the Union† 🔥Many of Jonathan Gienapp’s core arguments in his outstanding new book, Against Constitutional Originalism, are well-taken, and they represent imp ...
- Safe Harbors: When The Federal "Alien" Harboring Statute 8 U.S.C. § 1324 And The Constitution Collide This article analyzes the two principal federal harboring statutes: 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (harboring “aliens”) and 18 U.S.C. § 1071 (harboring fugitives) with a ...
- Ten Tips for Legal Empiricists by Christa Laser, Jordana Goodman, Michael Frakes, Janet Freilich, Mark A. Lemley, Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, David L. Schwartz, Jessica M. Silbey, Neel U. Sukhatme, S... Laser, Christa and Goodman, Jordana and Frakes, Michael and Freilich, Janet and Lemley, Mark A. and Ouellette, Lisa Larrimore and Schwartz, David L. and Silbey, Jessica M. and Sukhatme, Neel U. and Vishnubhakat, Saurabh and Wasserman, Melissa F., Ten Tips for Legal Empiricists (December 05, 2025). Goodman & Laser, Ten Tips for Legal Empiricists, 23 N.W. J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. 227 (2025), Stanford Public Law Working Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5875642 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5875642 ...
- Reimagining Legal Education: Bridging Tradition And Innovation by Vickie Carlton :: SSRN The landscape of legal education is undergoing a profound transformation, shaped by rapid advancements in technology, globalization, and shifting demands within ...
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.
- Which Patent Case Matters Most? 🔥🔥🔥We study how often Supreme Court patent cases are cited in law review articles, and compare our findings to our prior work that discussed how often the same ...
- Shifting norms in scholarly publications: trends in readability, objectivity, authorship, and AI use† 🔥Academic and scientific publishing practices have changed significantly in recent years. This paper presents an analysis of 17 million research papers published since 2000 to explore changes in author...
- Aspirational Attribution: A Response to Lemley & Ouellette, Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI† 🔥This essay is a short response to Mark A. Lemley and Lisa Larrimore Ouellette's article "Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI" (forthcoming University of Chi ...
- Deep neural networks can predict mortality from 12-lead electrocardiogram voltage data 🔥The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a widely-used medical test, typically consisting of 12 voltage versus time traces collected from surface recordings over the heart. Here we hypothesize that a deep neura...
- The Spatial Blindspot of Vision-Language Models† 🔥Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, but their ability to capture spatial relationships remains a blindspot. Current VLMs are typically built with contrastive language-image pretrainin...
- Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task† 🔥This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
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)
- Barb McQuade (@barbmcquade.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Brian Finucane (@bcfinucane.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Peter Stefanovic (@peterstefanovic.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Jess O'Thomson (@jessothomson.co.uk) (promoted)
- Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin (@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Sarah Fackrell (@design-law.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Darin Self (@darinself.com) (promoted)
- dag (@davidallengreen.bsky.social) (promoted)
- David Burbach 🇺🇸🌹 (@dburbach.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Raffi Melkonian (@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social) (promoted)
- southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Josh Chafetz (@joshchafetz.bsky.social) (promoted)
- John Pfaff (@johnpfaff.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw.bsky.social)
- Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) (promoted)
- AG Andrea Joy Campbell (@massago.bsky.social) (promoted)
- Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Just Security (@justsecurity.org) (relegated)
- Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@profciara.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Cristian Farias (@cristianfarias.com) (relegated)
- Prem Sikka (@premnsikka.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Bradley P. Moss (@bradmossesq.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Justin (@justinlawguy.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Steve Peers (@stevepeers.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Lawrence Hurley (@lawrencehurley.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joe Stieb (@joestieb.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Elizabeth N. Saunders (@profsaunders.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Mark Copelovitch (@mcopelov.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Michael J. Stern (@michaeljstern.bsky.social) (relegated)
- Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) (@shengokai.blacksky.app) (relegated)
- Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.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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