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
- New York 3rd District : U.S. House : 2024 Polls | FiveThirtyEight (~6 shares)
- U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails – Krebs on Security (~4 shares)
- HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights (~4 shares)
- Statutes Justice Firearms preprint 2.pdf - Google Drive (~3 shares)
- Opinion: Gutting key internet law won't truly protect children online (~3 shares)
- Warrren raises concerns as state considers prison healthcare bids (~2 shares)
- Introducing the American Legal Blogger: Brought to you by the ABA Journal and LexBlog - LexBlog (~2 shares)
- Americans spend millions of dollars on Valentine’s Day roses. I calculated exactly how much (~2 shares)
- The Consequences of Jack Smith's Rush to Trial | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- Viniello v. Target - Complaint | PDF | Patent Infringement | Patent (~2 shares)
- Pipes | Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA. 90mm/4.5 Nikkor-… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Nearly 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real, study finds | Climate crisis | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Happy Valentine's Day, Nerds 💌 (~2 shares)
- St. Jude Hoards Billions While Many of Its Families Drain Their Savings — ProPublica (~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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