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
- Sam Alito believes you — and, perhaps, his colleagues — are stupid (~5 shares)
- Taking Down Trump: Trump's Defense Stumbles as Verdict Nears on Apple Podcasts (~3 shares)
- Donald Trump found guilty of hush-money plot to influence 2016 election | Donald Trump trials | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- West Trenton Railroad Station | 5 September 2015. West Trent… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- IRS Direct File Expands To All 50 States For 2025 (~2 shares)
- Cryptocurrency companies have raised over $115 million to influence US elections this cycle, and they’re just getting started (~2 shares)
- Breaking: Trump is guilty on all counts in NYC trial (~2 shares)
- Thoughts on Donald Trump’s Conviction | Lawfare (~2 shares)
- At the Round Table with Intellectual Property & Internet Law Expert, Michael Risch | Round Table Group (~2 shares)
- The Alaska Supreme Court Takes Aerial Surveillance’s Threat to Privacy Seriously, Other Courts Should Too | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~2 shares)
- Companies Rethink Insider Trading Policies After Novel SEC Win (~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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