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
- Students lose out as cities and states give billions in property tax breaks to businesses − draining school budgets and especially hurting the poorest students (~7 shares)
- New bill would let defendants inspect algorithms used against them in court - The Verge (~6 shares)
- Attorney General James Wins Landmark Victory in Case Against Donald Trump (~4 shares)
- Progressives beware: high turnout now favours the right (~3 shares)
- ParlInfo - MATTERS OF PUBLIC IMPORTANCE : Advertising: Harmful Products (~3 shares)
- The Copia Institute Tells The Ninth Circuit That The District Court Got It Basically Right Enjoining California’s Age Design Law | Techdirt (~3 shares)
- ‘Tsunami of cosmetic surgery’ changes face of Iran (~3 shares)
- FAB support in Federal Parliament - Fossil Ad Ban (~3 shares)
- How Authoritarians Will Use AI - by Art Kleiner (~3 shares)
- Trump Ordered to Pay $355 Million in NY Civil Fraud Trial Ruling - The New York Times (~3 shares)
- Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- Privacy Isn't Dead. Far From It. | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- Ouvrir la Science - French Ministry of Higher Education and Research partners with OpenAlex to develop a fully open bibliographic tool (~2 shares)
- Angie McMahon covers Australian Crawl ‘Reckless’ for Like A Version - triple j (~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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