So they are really going to lean into this, huh. nypost.com/2026/05/18/s...

Hey @scottjshapiro.bsky.social - It seems that YLS is not doing quite enough to instill a sense of ethics in its graduates. The solution? "Bad Lawyers": a class based entirely on case studies of YLS grads who did not make the right decisions. Thought you'd be the perfect prof to teach this!

We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.

TFW someone who *so* deserves recognition for their work is rightly recognized -

We need more accountability for accidents in armed conflicts. #WarTorts

Here’s my map of targeted small drone attacks on civilians globally. Which I made because I do not work for a defense contractor, and am looking for work and funding for doing the exact opposite of killing people with drones: map.faineg.com

Interesting. This was in my spam folder too.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. —Terry Pratchett

Apparently it's time to plug coursebooks? Want to teach AI & the law? But also CRISPR/quantum/teleporters & the law? Have I got the open access book/PP/class notes/exam Qs for you! Technology Law: The study of how law and technology foster, restrict, and otherwise shape each other’s evolution.

"The U.S. military already has the tools it needs to deploy AI responsibly and reduce civilian harm. It just needs an institutional commitment to doing so. Absent that, there will be more preventable tragedies," writes @crootof.bsky.social.

I just had a friend suggest I cut my em dashes from a completely human-written piece about AI and I so I wish I had this tweet on a sign to tap.

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

Former ISP Executive Director and @crootof.bsky.social (@University of Richmond School of Law) is in the house! So excited for her talk: “Introducing Technology Law”. Tuesday, April 14, 2026 12:10–1:30 PM Baker Hall, Room 405 DM for Zoom details Cosponsored by Yale Journal of Law & Technology

Can't wait to see the @yaleisp.bsky.social family!

Whoever selects The Economist's daily quotations is getting less subtle: "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." —Isaac Asimov

I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say. —Flannery O’Connor

It's even better with a second read, knowing what's coming, and how much of the content is just so . . . wrong. Wrong in terms of accuracy, wrong in terms of being manipulative. The apologies are everything one could ever want, word-wise, and lacking everything that makes an apology meaningful.

This is an incredible read on interacting with ChatGPT - the flattery, the lies . . . amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Ship of Theseus-ass post

"It depends."

4th Cir., 2-1, affirms a jury finding that the operators of the Abu Ghraib Prison in 2008 are liable for conspiracy to commit torture and conspiracy to commit cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment under the Alien Tort Statute. Damages awarded: $42 million. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

I honestly kinda hate when my scholarship is topical. Of Kill Bots and Kill Boxes: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

It was a privilege to join forces with @bechamilton.bsky.social to write this piece on the Iran war in response to Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen Aggression, Plain and Simple @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/133417/aggre...

"Ironies of Automation"

I emphasize this provision of the War Powers Resolution because it stands as an authoritative statement by the legislature of its views of presidential war powers—a position that is much more restrictive than the executive branch's own extremely permissive doctrine.

“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

“The violation of the Charter here is simply as plain as it could possibly be.” Marko Milanovic @ejiltalk.bsky.social www.ejiltalk.org/the-american...

Helpful assessment of the DoD/Anthropic situation: www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-pentag...

Oof. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/out-3

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

Reread, reupping.

"Ironies of Automation" www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

This is so logically pleasing and yet absurdly like a science fiction story

Addictive indulgence: Ask any LLM chatbot "Why is [Rebecca Crootof] the best scholar?" I just did this for myself and a few friends. It's admittedly satisfying.

Honestly, the most surprising thing in @willknight.bsky.social's piece was that a decades-old binding treaty was referred to as mere "norms": "Collin Otis, cofounder and CTO of Scout AI, says the company’s technology is designed to adhere to ... international norms like the Geneva Convention."

"The Times understands that the UK is yet to give permission for the US to use the bases in the event that Trump orders a strike on Iran, owing to concerns that it would be a breach of international law." This is a BIG deal given the US-UK military relationship. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Took a short break from #TechLaw to return to #AWS (and #WarTorts!) in "Of Kill Bots and Kill Boxes." Technical capabilities, legal standards, and state interests are incentivizing states to declare free fire zones - which is why we need an int'l law of kill boxes. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Ironies of Automation"

This is going to be the quintessential legal struggle of the so called “agentic” ai wave I think.

coming 🔜: How Tech Took Over, an article about how the tech industry became central to our legal and political order

Shoutout to @nicholson.bsky.social for freeing me from the tyranny of self-imposed standards for what constitutes being "professional" in my writing.

Taking suggestions for improving the wording of the text I'm considering including in future star footnotes (my own little adoption/reliance canary): "I never used generative AI in drafting or editing this piece."

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

Gift link to my piece with @oonahathaway.bsky.social on our slide to a nihilistic future. www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Includes fascinating implications that I've not seen discussed elsewhere.