Pleased to announce that the 3rd Edition of my open-access information privacy law casebook is now available! Download it for free at www.privacycasebook.com. You can find a model syllabus and last year's slides on the website. Adds Chatrie and the 9th Circuit's decision in NetChoice v Bonata.

Unicorn Academy. “Some of you have been chosen for your extraordinary skills and talents…” and others are legacies. Sounds about right :P

Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup

Most unis, including mine, have left it up to the professors to deal with this stuff on their own, including us having to reinvent the way we teach and measure learning wholesale.

I independently read this as a "lol, we can do (almost) anything" provision. Is the discretionary and standardless suspension of discipline a problem? Yes. Is it within the "rules" established by FIFA? Also yes.

This is either going to be one of the greatest finishes in World Cup history or there’s going to be an enormous brawl before the 80th minute mark. No, it you cannot say “why not both”.

“Everyone is playing soccer except the referee, who is playing dodgeball.” #worldcup

Right before the buzzer for Pride month www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

Though I understand the political benefits of scapegoating etc, on some level I cannot accept that actual people decided that being a dick to high school students was a good basis for a political movement.

easily funniest goal of the tournament 1. corner flag saves ball from going out of bounds 2. surprised austrian defender full on leg tackles algerian guy 3. other algerian guy boots it into a defender’s nuts 4. algerian guy dekes out two other defenders, spectacular finish

Have we considered that the two constants in this mess have been Brexit and the cat?

L to R: Chris Richards: biracial kid from Alabama who speaks about black history and has tattoos of MLK, Ali, and Obama Sergiño Dest: Dutch-Surinamese, emigrated to Brooklyn as a kid, naturalized Fola Balogun: born in Brooklyn to vacationing parents, raised in UK but CHOOSES to play for USA

Wait, hold up, I'm sorry - the actual data supporting the conclusions of your 'academia is politicized and not data-based enough' report may or may not be published at some point? Proof is for the peasants at public universities, I guess.

This article isn't about Wurman, Barnett, or Epstein. It is not for the Supreme Court. This is for the preservation of knowledge and better public education. With that mission in mind, I hope y'all share this and download it. And that said, when you read my piece, here's what their work does wrong:

There’s a particular kind of satisfaction that comes from reading an email or paper you wrote years ago and recognizing that past-you was actually pretty smart.

Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, out-of-state entities have used every tool to punish women who have accessed abortions. The Reproductive Health Records Privacy Act is the most recent action Illinois is taking to ensure patients retain full control over their health information.

Sonyon, Saint of inventors, technicians, and artificers. That you pray to for a flash of something extraordinary to change the world. That your invention will work and not kill you in the process. That no one uses what you've made for terrible things. #myart #dnd #d&d

Yes, because video glasses at work are going to raise zero issues under trade secret, insider trading, employment, harassment, or privacy law. This is definitely a great idea whose time has come.

Whenever I want to understand contract law, I turn to @hoffprof.bsky.social His post has fascinating thoughts on the impact AI will have on contracts. profhoffman.substack.com/p/the-declin...

In other words “We didn’t lose the war. We were stabbed in the back by our cowardly leaders.” This feels familiar. Where have I heard it before?

Not liking the direction Google is headed? Come to the Duck side. www.duckduckgo.com

I grade exams in random order and I'm weirdly happy that I now randomly get to grade the exam that has been sitting at the top of the file folder for the last week.

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Launch­es Inves­ti­ga­tion Into Meta Glass­es to Pro­tect Tex­ans’ Pri­va­cy From Unlaw­ful Mon­i­tor­ing and Col­lec­tion of Facial Data www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release...

Raskin says the fund is unconstitutional. Congress didn't structure it. 14th Amendment prohibits obligations in service of insurrection. Raskin says Dem House will shut it down and compel transparency on payments. He's calling on Rs to legislate against it now. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Here's the rub. The slush fund will be drawn from a larger Treasury Department fund. The latter compensates actual victims of the government. But the new one will be put under Trump's direct control in a new way and untangled from any oversight, Raskin notes. 3/ newrepublic.com/article/2105...

“Trump DOJ negotiates $1.7 billion gift to his political allies in IRS case” would be a better headline here. The initial $10 billion demand is just anchoring. It’s the first thing they teach you in sleazy business deal school. And it worked on the AP and NYT here.

Just out: a discussion of how Grok exposed limitations in the legal regulation of AI sexual abuse. Quoting some leading figures in the field, and also me. thepolitic.org/grokaideepfa...

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Sadly, this is probably a great idea. The standard does mention an “incontrovertible evidence” standard, which is reassuring given the problems of AI detection and the all too human “oops” factor with making citation errors. But we need to scare people straight on AI hallucinations.

sorry, i work at a university in a red state, and it’s illegal for the women & gender studies faculty to spend research money to attend their conferences. what in the fuck are they talking about

I'm supposed to be grading and Aaron is inviting a breaking news alert.

NEW ARTICLE: 4th Amendment law recognizes a buffer zone around the home—so-called "curtilage," that cops can't enter outside an "implied license." SCOTUS says this is intuitive & everyone knows the line. But is it? @mbkugler.bsky.social and I decided to ask people. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson sent letters today to more than a dozen prominent technology companies reminding businesses of their obligation to comply fully with the Take It Down Act (TIDA) no later than May 19.

NEW: Cybercrime group ShinyHunters claims to have hacked education tech giant Instructure again. The hackers say they defaced the Canvas platform login pages of at least three customers. ShinyHunters is using this apparent second hack as another chance to extort Instructure and its customers.

A must-read from UCLA law prof Dave Marcus, who was actually in the room when it happened. www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/mean...

One of my students emailed me asking if I might want to cover it in class next year. Thankfully my exam was yesterday.

It’s stunning to think how little the staffers writing the laws that regulate a state’s economy get paid. Like, the legislators themselves are less than half a junior associate.

When you wonder why literally no one got a MC question right and realize that it is because you reordered the choices after writing the questions and the answer key is wrong :P.

Two different technical, procedural moves from #SCOTUS yesterday have one thing in common: The Court is behaving differently in otherwise similar cases based upon the ideological/partisan valence of the dispute. Via "One First," me on why, results aside, that's a serious indictment of the Court:

Nature retracted a paper that claimed ChatGPT had a positive impact on student learning. it's not the only paper making this claim that has this problem www.404media.co/nature-retra...

May the 4th be with you.

When reality is like this, satire needs to be clearly labeled.

A thought on the Chatrie oral argument: Most SCOTUS-level search cases are asking for advisory opinions. We all know that the evidence will almost certainly be admissible under the good faith exception. See Carpenter, for instance. So Alito is right to point that out, but silly for it.

My overall reaction to the Chatrie argument, screenshotted from the other place b/c can't do long tweets here.

These two things can be true at the same time: 1) You should never believe a word Trump or his minions say; 2) The shooting event last night was probably not a set-up

Texas Tech and Texas A&M are no longer universities and we should not treat them or refer to them as such.

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