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
- Supreme Court's cold ruling criminalizing homelessness (~5 shares)
- ‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision | Homelessness | The Guardian (~4 shares)
- Mississippi Can’t Wall Off Everyone’s Social Media Access to Protect Children | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~3 shares)
- The Imperial Supreme Court - Harvard Law Review (~3 shares)
- Smithsonian Castle, Washington, DC | 2 June 2021 The Smithso… | Flickr (~2 shares)
- Forget the imperial presidency. John Roberts wants an imperial SCOTUS. (~2 shares)
- What is the Chevron deference and why has it been overruled? - BBC News (~2 shares)
- Supreme Court rules cities can ban homeless people from sleeping outdoors – Sotomayor dissent summarizes opinion as ‘stay awake or be arrested’ (~2 shares)
- In Tehran, Gaza rekindles the revolution – Mondoweiss (~2 shares)
- Government Has Extremely Heavy Burden to Justify TikTok Ban, EFF Tells Appeals Court | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~2 shares)
- We Just Witnessed the Biggest Supreme Court Power Grab Since 1803 | The Nation (~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
- Can Staggered Boards Improve Value? Causal Evidence from Massachusetts by Robert Daines, Shelley Xin Li, Charles C. Y. Wang
- Section 230's Debts by Blake E. Reid
- Crisis and Change at the United Nations: Non-Amendment Reform and Institutional Evolution by Oona A. Hathaway, Maggie Mills, Heather Zimmerman
- Network Neutrality as Governance Seam by Brett M. Frischmann , Blake E. Reid
- [couldn't read title]
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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