LAHAV PLANS WIN OF NOBEL PRIZE IN LAW* *There is no Nobel Prize in law

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

LAHAV PLANS PUBLICATION IN YALE LJ AND HARVARD L REV

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h ago

$SPCX - SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

I’m old enough to remember when it was a year-long scandal that Facebook did this. james.grimmelmann.net/files/articl...

Alexandra Lahav@alahav.bsky.social · 4h ago

New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...

New @bloomberglaw.com article by Olivia Carville - TikTok experimented on users, putting 10% (about 15M people) in a "filter bubble" exposing them to repetitive content that the algorithm thought they wanted, but was toxic. If you want to know why these cases are going to be massive...

The $5.5 billion global deal over talc ovarian cancer allows women to move past setbacks requiring them to provide experts who show a link between the disease and talc, and for J&J to close litigation that included gambits to spin off liability through bankruptcy maneuvers. www.law360.com/artic...

I'm into this: Tedious Boring and Right

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d ago

Matters taken under advisement. No ruling from the bench. Noting that people on the public line might already be asleep, Judge Ali concludes the hearing: "Sometimes the law should be tedious and boring so we get this right." Court is adjourned.

Thoughtful post to which I would add that if it's not a good paper publication in a high ranking review is actually worse because it will get picked apart when you wouldn't believe.

David A. Simon@davidasimon.bsky.social · 5d ago

Law review submissions season. Some observations 1. Be respectful of editors and authors. Communicate promptly. Accept/reject authors respectfully and as soon as is practicable.

After Dr. Fauci took the Fifth, the Florida AG tweeted a threat to investigate. That can't have been a basis for Fauci's fear of prosecution before the tweet but it sheds light on prior red-state AGs' threats. Thus, I reassess whether fear of state prosecution justified Fauci in taking the Fifth. 👇

Here you go @joshchafetz.bsky.social Vindication! You can lord it over me for 24 hours.

Dr. Anthony Fauci was right that Rand Paul and other Republicans are out to get him, but in light of his pardon and case law rejecting "anticipatory perjury" as a basis for fearing prosecution, his invocation of his 5th Am right against self-incrimination was legally dubious. Details on the blog. 👇

For Fed Courts types, this is really interesting from CA7: If you sue someone, but don't really try to pursue them, that isn't fraudulent joinder. I think that is consistent with what SCOTUS has been saying in this space (see Hain Celestial, etc.) media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/Opin...

Teaching PR radicalized me into an abolish the bar person. This latest fiasco proves that states can’t even be trusted to administer a pointless exam. Cancel it & redirect the funds towards ethics compliance. Hard to pull off given entrenched interests & the cartel nature of the bar. But we can try!

Paul Gowder@gowder.io · last wk.

So this Washington bar exam catastrophe---what the fuck? I have a lot of sympathy with the abolish-the-bar campaign (albeit with some hesitations due to the plague of incompetent lawyers out there), but even if we don't abolish it at a minimum we have to HAVE STANDARDS FOR THE TECHNOLOGY

My heart goes out to the graduates who were supposed to be taking the bar exam in Washington that was cancelled.

BTW, this strikes me as an easy case for strict liability. It’s like a wild animal or ultrahazardous activity. You train and evaluate a frontier agentic model at your own risk, and if it escapes you are liable for all harm that it causes to others.

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · last wk.

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

New paper alert: Mergers and Arbitrations. My co-authors and I have written a love-letter to the pragmatic jurists of the Delaware Chancery Court, who've built a product no one can easily beat. @chancethelawyer.bsky.social, you know what to do! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I SUBSIST ON PURE COFFEE

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 2w ago

I EAT NO FOOD. ZERO CALORIES A DAY. I SUBSIST ON PURE PRODUCTIVITY.

Why have written procedural rules when you can do whatever? Literally just this hour I was reading Scalia's Common Law Courts in a Civil Law System and I am telling you he would disapprove.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2w ago

On Tuesday, the full Fifth Circuit granted DOJ's request for a "precedential stay" of district court rulings holding that the Due Process Clause requires bond hearings for immigration detainees w/in 90 days of their arrest. Today's "One First" explains why that's a really big (and problematic) deal:

The DOJ's motion to disqualify Susman Godfrey under Rule 3.7 in the ABA litigation is so bad that I wonder how these lawyers passed the MPRE. But clearly they're getting nervous about what Susman might turn up in discovery.

Back to School on the Advocate-Witness Rule

A Shameless DOJ Motion

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JUST IN: US judge approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of copyright lawsuit reut.rs/4vH4w8r

Congressional testimony of Justices Kagan and Barrett raises the question whether, in light of Slaughter, the Supreme Court Police are unconstitutional. 👇

This is a very interesting thread. I just had the experience of reviewing a piece that I suspect was AI generated but had no disclosures. It relied on old scholarship (nothing after 2000), made broad anodyne claims as if they were novel - like the "synthesis" issue described int the thread -- /1

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3w ago

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

My colleague Tim Lytton has written an excellent book that traces the history of food safety regulation in the United States. a.co/d/03kbIYeV

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

“At this time, Taylor Fresh Foods has not publicly provided distribution information or a list of customers who received the product that was voluntarily removed from the market,” said the FDA. The fact that they have a choice in this is a problem. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/h...

On the blog, here's part 2 of Prof Neil Buchanan's 2-parter on the naked partisanship on display in the latest SCOTUS term.

The Seventh Circuit kept the city of Chicago's climate deception suit against BP, Shell and other oil giants in Illinois state court, saying the oil companies could not lean on their fuel production for the federal government to remove the case to federal court.

Oil Giants Can't Move Chicago's Climate Suit, 7th Circ. Says - Law360

The Seventh Circuit on Wednesday kept the city of Chicago's climate deception suit against BP, Shell and other oil giants in Illinois state court, saying the oil companies could not lean on their fuel production for the federal government to remove the case to federal court.

law360.com

How long does it take to undo the habits of thought that make democracy possible?

The founding director of Cornell's First Amendment clinic is retiring, and we need to hire a new one. It's a great opportunity for an experienced litigator/clinical instructor to do important work to advance free speech & free press. If you or someone you know is interested, apply at the link below.

Mass Tort Firms Hit With Suit Over AI Solicitation Calls www.law360.com/pulse/legal-...

App update! "if parties sue Uber they must disclose any litigation funder who financially backs the lawsuit. They also must provide Uber with copies of the funding agreements, and the requirement applies to any appointed arbitrator. " news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...

Uber Targets Litigation Funders in Rider, Driver Agreements

Uber Technologies Inc. has moved to thwart lawsuits funded by outside investors by requiring customers and drivers who sue the company to disclose details of any such arrangements.

news.bloomberglaw.com

Thinking of naming your article [this ] As [ that ]? Don't do it. That is my sage advice. Contract As Promise? No. Either a contract is a promise, in which case say that, or you're just saying words with a preposition between them and doing no analytical work.

College professors: are your exams hand written?