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 and this site to help folks discover great law-themed content. You can get a look at their algos/workflows here.
If you like what you see, consider joining Mastodon and following @icymi_law@esq.social, the bot feeding this page content.
FWIW, here are some law-flavored server suggestions: (1) esq.social (legal general interest); and (2) mastodon.lawprofs.org (legal academics). Also, here are Some Tricks [For] Making Mastodon Way More Useful.
Top Posts
Most-Shared Links
Here are yesterday's most-shared links from #Law/#LawFedi folks I follow.¹
- Southern District of New York | Two More Men Charged With Hacking Fantasy Sports And Betting Website | United States Department of Justice (~3 shares)
- Gazan academia ‘destroyed’ in Israeli ‘educide’ | Times Higher Education (THE) (~3 shares)
- I Turned My Scholarly Papers Into Chatbots so People Don't Have To Read Them 🤞: Turn scholarly papers into chatbots so people don't have to read every word (~3 shares)
- Indictment (Sealed) – #1 in United States v. Lee (D. Maryland, 1:24-cr-00021) – CourtListener.com (~2 shares)
- Bugs in our pockets: the risks of client-side scanning | Journal of Cybersecurity | Oxford Academic (~2 shares)
- Governor Abbott’s Perilous Effort at Constitutional Realignment | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- How we almost ended up with a bull’s-eye bar code (~2 shares)
- Legal Research and the Declining Usefulness of Google Search | RIPS Law Librarian Blog (~2 shares)
- Staatssecretaris Van Huffelen (Digitalisering) stopt met X vanwege wanbeleid | Tech | NU.nl (~2 shares)
- IRS commissioner says he wants taxpayers to have options for this filing season : NPR (~2 shares)
¹ Yesterday includes yesterday plus anytime today before this page was published. See footer.
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
- The Value of Open Source Software by Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle, Yanuo Zhou
- First Amendment Neglect in Supreme Court Intellectual Property Cases by Mark A. Lemley, Rebecca Tushnet
- Moral Jugdments and Knowledge about Felony Murder in Colorado: An Empirical Study by Ian P. Farrell
- Brief of Amicus Curiae Professor Sean J. Griffith in Support of Intervenor, National Association of Manufacturers, in National Center for Public Policy Research v SEC, No. 23-60230 (Fifth Cir., Oct. 5, 2023) by Sean J. Griffith
- Free the Market: How We Can Save Capitalism from the Capitalists by Mark A. Lemley
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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