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🇺🇸 🇪🇺 In ten days!🤓 👩‍🏫 With great joy, we invite everyone to a guest lecture by Prof. Claudia Haupt (Northeastern University School of Law) titled "Talking past each other across the pond: Why discussions of online speech regulation between the US and Europe fail and what we can do about it."

🤓 In a week! 🚨 Join us for the 1st "Hands-on Law & Tech" webinar! 📆 February 29, 2024 🕓 16:00 - 17:00 CET (10 am -11 am ET) ➡️ Register: forms.office.com/e/PDDFBEjJJs 📖 Check out the Handbook: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

so a cool thing about being an adult is that if only you're prepared to overpay, you're free to eat all the chocolate bars from the hotel minibar

🧑‍⚖️🤖 What can you find in Edward Elgar's Research Handbook on Law and Technology? Check out the video📽️📚🧑‍🎓 youtu.be/d3j5Mvfy_nI?...

📖 New book alert! 🚨 "Research Handbook on Law & Technology" edited by Olia Kanevskaia, Bartosz Brożek, and yours truly has just been published by Edward Elgar

Found a poutine place in Krakow 😮😍 I suppose to make it feel more Canadian they have heating off so that it’s very, very cold inside 🇨🇦 🍁 🥶

Now on FirstView, in EuConst, a paper I had the pleasure of coauthoring with @przemekpalka.bsky.social on why the unique characteristics of data protection rights under EU constitutional law should make us rethink the GDPR's system of administrative enforcement! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Home made meme

Hey hivemind, what are the good texts about disguising political choices in law and technology as technical ones? Stuff like the normativity of coding, the politics of architectures created by designers? thanks!

Hey everyone, could you recommend (1) a reading about critical legal studies (as a method, not a historical movement) and (2) a reading where the author uses this method, which I could use as an illustration for students? curious what different people consider good. thanks!

The getting-older-dilemmas: does a stress ECG count as the day’s workout?

A new paper on SSRN: "How Not to Get Bored, or Some Thoughts on the Methodology of Law & Technology," co-authored with great Bartosz Brożek: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

An Uber from my flat in Krakow to the railway station (1.6 km, 20 mins walk), right now, when it's raining, costs MORE than the train ticket from Krakow to my hometown (110 km, 1.5 h drive). Not sure what to think of this.

I feel empowered by the mindblowing number of boxes I need to tick to make sure that all listservs and public administration process my data in accordance with the GDPR, as this clearly is the most important way of ensuring that my privacy is protected.

yesterday: where are you from? from Poland... today: where are you from? from Poland!

why are there journals whose house style holds that parts or sections should be unnumbered? who came up with this, who does it help? why do I have to change "See below, section 2.1.3" to "See below, section TITLE TELLING YOU NOTHING ABOUT WHERE TO LOOK FOR IT?" Europeans are so strange

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo... “Claudia Goldin has trawled the archives and collected over 200 years of data from the US, allowing her to demonstrate how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have changed over time.” Congrats !

(1) mental costs of social media, and how the consumer law’s focus on physical health and purchasing behavior paved the way for mental health externalities; (2) how doctrinal legal scholarship, still popular in many jurisdictions, is methodologically close to literature/theology and not social sci

My new paper, challenging the personal/non-personal data distinction in policymaking, just came out in OA: doi.org/10.26116/tec... Inside: 1️⃣ Identifying the data law and policy's assumption that harms to individuals and communities stem (only?) from personal data processing

AI, Consumers & Psychological Harm I have a new paper, on the AI Act's notion of "psychological harm:" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... I discuss what the notion could mean, survey studies showing harmful effects AI systems can have on mental health & the big surprise (1/3)...

We’ve posted the updated “Amazon’s Pricing Paradox.” It examines how Amazon’s search algorithm and interface design influence prices. It’s relevant to the recent FTC antitrust case but adds another layer. Comments welcome! ssrn.com/abstract=443... @nikitaggarwal

Hey everyone, whom do I know that has been researching the EU's AI Act?

An article I co-authored come out today: The impact of the Digital Content Directive on online platforms’ Terms of Service, Yearbook of European Law, 2023, doi.org/10.1093/yel/...

Rather than banning ChatGPT in his history classes, Jonathan S. Jones created an assignment to teach students what it can and can’t do. He shares this experience in Perspectives on History.

Reading Irving Stone’s „The Agony and the Ecstasy” and realizing how the English language has, in fact, simplified over the last century. The number of words I don’t understand is, well, high. Doesn’t really happen with contemporary stuff.

Welcome to Bluesky, @ruuta.bsky.social!

words cannot capture how much I love Zotero. also, this is the ceiling of my temp office in Bologna 🥹

If you’re worried that your work is only “half done” and not as perfect “as it could be,” temper that this is how the biggest church in Bologna looks, and will always look like

We FOIAed over 20 government agencies and sued the Departments of State, Defense, and DHS to gather the largest collection of nonbinding agreements ever. We discovered that the way the world makes international agreements is changing. Read it here: lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv...

Omw to Bologna IT, where I’ll spend a month as a visiting researcher 🇮🇹☀️🍝📚 💻

Ok this game is fun but I’m not sure this is the best way of sharing the results.. Connections Puzzle #65 🟩🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪

My bank, who passed all 14 interest rate rises onto my home loan account, but only half of them onto my savings account, just sent me some tips on how to identify financial scammers

Forthcoming, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, by William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen: The Sweep and Force of Section Three [of the 14th Amendment] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4532751

Welcome to bluesky @polapalka.bsky.social ⛈️⛈️

Here it is: the big one.  An overview of today’s indictment of former President Donald Trump:   https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-big-one-trump-is-indicted-for-jan.-6

What’s your favorite household appliance?

I wrote about Godbots (with the brilliant Webb Keane) https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/deus-ex-machina-the-dangers-of-ai-godbots/

ok (not) serious question: if I'm submitting a law review piece in this August cycle, do I already write "X" or keep "Twitter"? What if he changes his mind in a month.. but i don't want to come across as ignorant. or do i just ignore the platform that will soon die anyway?

BTW, did you folks know that Threads is not available in the EU? Not sure what to think about it

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