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
- Nature restoration: Parliament adopts law to restore 20% of EU’s land and sea | News | European Parliament (~3 shares)
- Judge skeptical of lawsuit brought by Elon Musk's X over hate speech research : NPR (~3 shares)
- Seventh Circuit restricts trans minors' rights in Indiana without a word explaining why (~3 shares)
- Issue 52 – I am Sam's low-level culpability (~3 shares)
- Elon Musk Ordered To Testify In Lawsuit For Falsely Linking Jewish Man To Neo-Nazi Brawl | HuffPost Latest News (~3 shares)
- Translate Legalese: An AI tool for rewriting texts in plain language (~2 shares)
- Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant and Arsenal Bridge | 12 July … | Flickr (~2 shares)
- [2402.18255] How open are hybrid journals included in transformative agreements? (~2 shares)
- Podcast Episode: Open Source Beats Authoritarianism | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~2 shares)
- Here’s Why Jalapeño Peppers Are Less Spicy Than Ever - D Magazine (~2 shares)
- 24-032MR ASIC obtains bankruptcy orders against social media finfluencer Tyson Scholz | ASIC (~2 shares)
- EFF opposes San Francisco's Proposition E - CBS San Francisco (~2 shares)
- Lawfare Live: Trump's Trials and Tribulations, Feb. 29 | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- ASX Wolf fine: Australian Influencer Tyson Scholz bankrupt | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT (~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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