Immersive tech & generative AI are reshaping how we work, connect, & govern online spaces. I had the pleasure of co-authoring a new book on the legal, economic, & privacy implications of this tech w/ Scott Shackelford, Jeffrey Prince, & Michael Mattioli, published by Oxford University Press.

🧵 on an important new paper measuring memorization by LLMs.

I’m excited to present two related projects today at the Harvard Law School Private Law Workshop. 🔹 Defragging Ownership: How Corporations Sliced, Diced, and Sold the Bundle. Available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 🔹 Property Defaults Draft available upon request.

I’m excited to present two related projects today at the Harvard Law School Private Law Workshop. 🔹 Defragging Ownership: How Corporations Sliced, Diced, and Sold the Bundle. Available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 🔹 Property Defaults Draft available upon request.

Thrilled to share the final program for the 2025 Workshop on Private Law & Emerging Technology! This 3-part virtual series is co-sponsored by Harvard’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law and Yale’s Information Society Project & Center for Private Law. Don’t miss this incredible lineup!

Thrilled to share the final program for the 2025 Workshop on Private Law & Emerging Technology! This 3-part virtual series is co-sponsored by Harvard’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law and Yale’s Information Society Project & Center for Private Law. Don’t miss this incredible lineup!

Join us tomorrow for the (virtual) Law & Tech Workshop! I'll be co-hosting this super interesting session about "Dignity and Deepfakes."

I don’t have strong feelings about the Tik Tok ban. I do have strong feelings about the idea that Trump is just going to waive a law passed by Congress on a bipartisan basis. And that Biden was apparently going to do the same. That’s lawless.

On Friday 3 PM ET, the Law and Tech Workshop will be discussing Aileen Nielsen's (@hls.harvard.edu) "Legibility and Lawmaking," with Jens Frankenreiter as the discussant. To sign up for the workshop, email [email protected]. More information at lawtechworkshop.org.

Trump will face *no consequences* for his hush-money guilty verdict on 34 felony counts. The only result is being labeled a felon in NY. Legally, this is called an "unconditional discharge" and it is no wonder that people are upset. 1/

The long wait is over. 2025 is going to be a great year. Coming soon with Oxford University Press.

A defense attorney in Florida brought VR headsets to court to use as evidence! "We put headsets on the judge, the prosecutors, and the witness and the judge was able to see from my client’s own eyes, from his own perspective"

The Illinois Supreme Court just issued a "Policy on Artificial Intelligence" along with a related "Judicial Reference Sheet" on Artificial Intelligence. 1/

I have *full* internet access until the end of the month. If you need me and your request isn’t urgent, I hope you’ll be patient.

Happy to announce "Defragging Ownership: Corporate Control & the Decline of Personal Property" (draft version open for comments!). The paper is part of Indiana Law Journal's 2025 Symposium on Law & Technology. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I mean… community engagement is one of the goals of municipal art isn’t it? news.sky.com/story/us-cit...

It's interesting that, for me, content moderation and censorship on generativeAI feels more restrictive than content moderation and censorship on social media platforms. Is it just me? If not, I have a few theories about why. These are mostly about feelings & gut reactions, not law. 1/6

Non-native speakers face prejudice for the same reason we place too much trust in LLMs like ChatGPT. Linguistic ability is used as a heuristic for knowledge & skill. We trust well-written answers more than stilted ones, especially if we have no other way to distinguish them.

There's a First Amendment case on appeal in the 6th Circuit that highlights an interesting question about the semantics & semiotics of censored vulgarities, specifically the phrase "Let's Go Brandon" (LGB), which students were prohibited from wearing to public school this year. (2024 WL 3924723). 1/

One of the things I predictably rant about in multiple classes is how the word “expectation” has two different meanings (prediction vs demand) and how courts just blithely conflate them. I don’t have to read the ruling to know that’s what happened here.

A little late, but the final cover for my book on the metaverse is out! I had a great time writing this with Scott Shackelford, Michael Mattioli, and Jeffrey Prince for Oxford University Press. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The current state of Generative AI news. The juxtaposition is even funnier given the source newspapers, though I'm not sure what to take away from that.

Learn more about the upcoming “Private Law & Technology Workshop,” a collaboration between the Harvard Project on Private Law, the @yaleisp.bsky.social, and the Yale Law Center for Private Law. privatelawtech.org