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
- Court Cases - New York Early Mail Voter Act Challenge - Democracy Docket (~5 shares)
- Civil asset forfeiture is on notice — but came out unscathed at SCOTUS for now (~5 shares)
- Telegram: Contact @durov (~4 shares)
- Israel-Gaza war: Turkey dismisses ‘fictional’ Israeli claims it is easing trade ban – as it happened | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Scottsdale company develops AI tool to write police reports | 12news.com (~3 shares)
- For graffiti artists, abandoned skyscrapers in Miami and Los Angeles become a canvas for regular people to be seen and heard (~3 shares)
- ‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair | Climate crisis | The Guardian (~3 shares)
- Philadelphia Inquirer Building | 2 February 2017. Broad & No… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Anniversary of the Vast Wasteland Speech that Changed Television, May 9, 1961 | by Nell Minow | Medium (~2 shares)
- As SCOTUS decisions are being written, a voting case heads to the justices (~2 shares)
- The Gist: Banning TikTok (for starters) (~2 shares)
- "An Old-Fashioned Bluebook Burning" by Paul Gowder (~2 shares)
- Hungary rolls out red carpet for Xi in final leg of European tour | Xi Jinping | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Courtroom sketches show Stormy Daniels on the stand (~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
- Jukin’ the Stats: The Gaming of Law School Rankings and How to Stop It by Darren Bush, Jessica Peterson
- Australia’s Never-ending Privacy Reform Process by Graham Greenleaf
- Amicus Curiae Brief of 69 Professors of Law, Economics, Business, and Medicine in Support of Plaintiff by Michael A. Carrier
- The Illusion of Inclusion: The False Promise of the New Governance Project for Content Moderation by Brenda Dvoskin
- Will the Real Shareholder Primacy Please Stand Up? by Ann Lipton
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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