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
- Boiled Frog Journalism: Is Trump an Agent of Saudi Arabia, and Other Pressing Questions Buried under Biden's Age - emptywheel (~3 shares)
- Appeals courts keep new Title IX rule blocked in 10 states during appeals (~3 shares)
- Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Do EVs catch fire more than gas-powered cars? The data say no. (~2 shares)
- Donald Trump Only Knows How to Do One Thing -- And It Isn't Being President | HuffPost Latest News (~2 shares)
- After Trump Assassination Attempt, Right Points Finger at Female Agents - The New York Times (~2 shares)
- Biden to reportedly push for supreme court term limits and new ethics code | Joe Biden | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Co-founders of Silicon Valley venture capital firm back Trump’s presidential bid | Donald Trump | The Guardian (~2 shares)
- Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log: Plaintiffs win partial summary judgment on falsity/materiality in "made in US" tea case (~2 shares)
- [Essay] The Breaking of a Social Contract, or Why I am Switching to Copyleft Licensing · Seán Fobbe (~2 shares)
- Executive Order on White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity Through Hispanic-Serving Institutions | The White House (~2 shares)
- Beyond Pride Month: Protecting Digital Identities For LGBTQ+ People | Electronic Frontier Foundation (~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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