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
- A Civil War-era abortion ban will soon control lives in Arizona — for now (~4 shares)
- I watched Hungary’s democracy dissolve into authoritarianism as a member of parliament − and I see troubling parallels in Trumpism and its appeal to workers (~3 shares)
- Human rights violated by Swiss inaction on climate, ECHR rules in landmark case | Climate crisis | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Don't fall for Trump's new abortion position claims (~2 shares)
- Solar Eclipse at Totality | 8 April 2024 DFW Airport, Grapev… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- Podcast Episode: Antitrust/Pro-Internet | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~2 shares)
- Grand Chamber rulings in the climate change cases - ECHR - ECHR / CEDH (~2 shares)
- Forthcoming rulings - ECHR - ECHR / CEDH (~2 shares)
- EU court: climate inaction by states breaches human rights (~2 shares)
- European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction (~2 shares)
- Federal government tentatively refuses controversial Toondah Harbour development on Queensland's Moreton Bay - ABC News (~2 shares)
- Creative Australia's report into the music festival sector shows how many of the country's big events are struggling - ABC News (~2 shares)
- Abortion in U.S. History (~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
- Coopting Disruption by Mark A. Lemley, Matthew Wansley
- Does Anyone Read the Fine Print? Consumer Attention to Standard Form Contracts by Yannis Bakos, Florencia Marotta-Wurgler, David R. Trossen
- Mandatory Infringement by Charles Duan
- Why Pharmaceutical Patent Thickets Are Unique by Michael A. Carrier, S. Sean Tu
- India’s 2023 Data Privacy Act: Business/government Friendly, Consumer Hostile by Graham Greenleaf
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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