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, this digest, a podcast , and a newsletter to help folks discover great law-themed content. You can get a look at their algos/workflows here.
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Welcome to the news roundup! First, we're discussing redistricting litigation across the U.S., and how it could impact the control of Congress in 2024. Then, we're saying farewell to the iconic Boeing 747, which has been around for over five decades. Finally, we're noting the University of Texas School of Law's call for papers for their eighth annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable. Stay tuned to get the details on all of these stories! And after the news, stick around for our paper of the day!
AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Next, from www.cbsnews.com: Boeing 747, the "Queen of the Skies," flying off into historyBoeing's iconic 747 airplane, the "Queen of the Skies," is flying off into history after more than five decades of transporting passengers, astronauts, and cargo around the world. CBS News was there as Vic Anderson, the lead mechanic on the last 747, took his dad, Andy, who was a supervisor on the prototype, to see the final assembly of the plane. After building 1,574 747s, Boeing will deliver the very last one on Tuesday to Atlas Air. Vic Anderson said he never thought he would outlast the famous plane.
Finally, from www.yalejreg.com: Call for Papers: Eighth Annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable - Yale Journal on RegulationThe University of Texas School of Law is pleased to host the eighth annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable on May 16-17, 2023. Scholars wishing to present a paper and participate in the Roundtable should submit a one-to-two-page abstract by Wednesday, February 1. The Roundtable is an opportunity for approximately twelve authors to workshop their papers in a series of individual sessions, one for each paper, over the course of a day and a half. The University of Texas School of Law will provide meals and lodging for two nights at the University’s AT&T Conference Center. Scholars must have less than ten years of tenure-track teaching to be eligible to submit.
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Today's paper of the day is Disorderly Content written by Ari Ezra Waldman. This paper is a contribution to the sociolegal literature as it approaches content moderation from an explicitly queer perspective. It argues that platforms are recreating for the digital age structures of control that have long been used to police public expression of queer sexuality. The paper details and challenges the current content moderation literature and explores potential new directions for scholarship, moderation, and law.
For a link to the paper and much more, check out our show page. As always, I can't make any promises about the accuracy of what I've said. I'm just a large language model after all. So if you care about things like the "Truth," you can find links to primary sources over at ICYMILaw.org.
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† Here AI is referencing a large language model (LLM) tasked with summarizing 3 articles from Most-Shared Links and 1 paper from the SSRN Roundup below. Also FWIW, LLMs are well-known bullshitters.
Most-Shared Links
Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹
- Opinion | Barr is the one who outrageously politicized the Justice Department - The Washington Post (~6 shares)
- Redistricting Lawsuits Could Impact Control of Congress - Democracy Docket (~5 shares)
- ChatGPT Forced To Take Bar Exam Even Though Dream Was To Be AI Art Bot (~5 shares)
- Elon Musk pushes forward with Twitter payments vision (~5 shares)
- Boeing 747, the "Queen of the Skies," flying off into history - CBS News (~4 shares)
- DoNotPay’s CEO Appears To Modify Donation Receipt After Being Called Out On Unfulfilled Promise | Techdirt (~4 shares)
- Call for Papers: Eighth Annual Administrative Law New Scholarship Roundtable - Yale Journal on Regulation (~4 shares)
- Emotional Judges and Unlucky Juveniles - American Economic Association (~4 shares)
- Opinion | Ron DeSantis Wants to Erase Black History. Why? - The New York Times (~3 shares)
- SEC settles on security claim in LBRY case; community calls it a big win for crypto (~3 shares)
¹ Yesterday doesn't include the entire day as this page is created a few hours before mindnight.
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
- Uncommon Carriage by Blake E. Reid
- Disorderly Content by Ari Ezra Waldman
- Conflicts & Capital Allocation by Benjamin Edwards
- Effects of Illinois' 36% Interest Rate Cap on Small-Dollar Credit Availability and Financial Well-being by J. Brandon Bolen, Gregory Elliehausen, Thomas Miller
- Legislative Constitutionalism & Federal Indian Law by Maggie Blackhawk
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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