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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FWIW, here are some law-flavored server suggestions: (1) esq.social (legal general interest); (2) law.builders (legal tech et al.); and (3) mastodon.lawprofs.org (legal academics). Also, here are Some Tricks [For] Making Mastodon Way More Useful.
Top Posts
AI Summaries / Podcast Transcript †
Welcome to today's top stories! From state laws to stablecoins to patent infringement, we've got it all. First up, Joel Rogers will be discussing ALEC's state laws and the effects they've had on public education, voting rights, and environmental protections. Then, the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion will be discussing the regulation of payment stablecoins. Last, Quanzhou Minghou Trading Co. Ltd. has filed a lawsuit against the Partnerships and Unincorporated Associations identified on Schedule A in the District Court of the Northern District of Illinois. Stay tuned for all the details!
~ show summaries ~
† 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
- Council calls for transparent, equitable, and open access to scholarly publications (~5 shares)
- Law school faculty have aggressively and successfully lobbied to diminish the importance of law school faculty in the USNWR rankings (~4 shares)
- Who's Writing All These Crazy State Laws? with Joel Rogers - Legal Talk Network (~4 shares)
- O’Shaughnessy et al.: Energy Justice Implications of Renewable Energy Project Siting (~3 shares)
- Hearing Entitled: Putting the ‘Stable’ in ‘Stablecoins:’ How Legislation Will Help Stablecoins Achieve Their Promise | Financial Services Committee (~3 shares)
- Quanzhou Minghou Trading Co. LTD. v. The Partnerships And Unincorporated Associations Identified..., 1:23-cv-00026 – CourtListener.com (~3 shares)
- Representative Casten questions at 5/18/2023 Stablecoin hearing - YouTube (~3 shares)
- Special Counsel Is Wrapping Up Trump Mar-a-Lago Probe - WSJ (~3 shares)
- E. Jean Carroll puts $10M tag on second Trump lawsuit after CNN town hall (~3 shares)
- Texas Abortion Ban: Woman Claims She Was Forced to Birth Stillborn Son – Rolling Stone (~3 shares)
- Circe (novel) - Wikipedia (~3 shares)
- Harlan Crow Rebuffs Senate Democrats’ Questions About Gifts To Clarence Thomas | HuffPost Latest News (~3 shares)
- Giving Peace a Chance: Pushing Back on a Chilling Russian Censorship Law - Slaw (~2 shares)
- Potential Civitas Institute professor rejects job due to Texas tenure fight | The Texas Tribune (~2 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
- How the Blockchain Undermined Digital Ownership by Aaron Perzanowski
- Superstar CEOS and Corporate Law by Assaf Hamdani, Kobi Kastiel
- ChatGPT and Intermediary Liability: Why Section 230 Does Not and Should Not Protect Generative Algorithms by Hasala Ariyaratne
- What 21st-Century Free Speech Law Means for Securities Regulation by Helen L. Norton
- Land Reform in the Fifth World by Jessica A. Shoemaker
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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