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Lior Strahilevitz

@thelior.bsky.social

University of Chicago Law Professor who writes about privacy law, property theory, and law & technology. My bio is here: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/strahilevitz My writing is here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=331655

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is one deeply reported, beautifully written (or edited) story, and you should find time this Sunday morning to read every word of it. 1/2 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)

Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...

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Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · last mo.

Some thoughts on Chatrie v. U.S. on first reading pass: The Court points out how cellphones are everywhere and we're "addicted" to our apps. Further, we're tracked all the time. (not the Court's job, but gosh, what if we could *do something* about the tracking problem, like regulate data use?)

Among that information is a single fact most pertinent here: where the user’s cell phone is located at a given time. Apps of many kinds rely on that datum. Your maps app wants to help you navigate from Point A (where you are) to Point B (where you are going). Ride-sharing apps of course track your location when you are using them, and often do so even when you are not. Weather apps want to tell you about local conditions. Fast-food apps want to identify the closest burger and pizza joints. Fitness apps want to track your running routes. And so on.
Lior Strahilevitz@thelior.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What do you say to newly graduated lawyers in the US at a time like this? Here were my Commencement remarks at the University of Chicago Law School graduation Saturday. I told four inspiring students’ stories. www.law.uchicago.edu/news/learnin...

'The Learning You’ve Done Isn’t Just a Means to an End... There’s an Intrinsic Value to It' | University of Chicago Law School

Thanks so much Adam. What an honor it is to follow Judge David Tatel. David is a mensch whose name will loom large when historians teach future generations about the history of American civil rights l...

law.uchicago.edu

Lior Strahilevitz@thelior.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m honored to be the faculty speaker at the University of Chicago Law School Commencement today. The livestream starts at 11:30 am Central, and I’ll be joined by our distinguished alumnus speaker, Judge David Tatel. www.law.uchicago.edu/graduation

Graduation | University of Chicago Law School

Captions are available at: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-UofC2Please note: Chrome is the recommended browser. If the player is not displaying correctly, you can access the livestream dir...

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Michael Pollack@michaelcpollack.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨Publication Day for Sidewalk Nation!🚨 Sidewalks connect us all, and they connect commerce, tech, tax, property, policing, homelessness, surveillance, free speech, socioeconomic equity, public health, climate resilience, and more. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Sidewalk Nation — Harvard University Press

An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.Public infrastructure is as essential to ...

hup.harvard.edu

Lior Strahilevitz@thelior.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Markup recently published a terrific piece about the ludicrous processes for protecting the privacy of electronic health information amidst dark patterns. It reflects a bunch of good research by Alex Rosenblat. Read it here: themarkup.org/privacy/2026...

The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no. – The Markup

Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form they’re signing explicitly says they can opt-out.

themarkup.org

Lior Strahilevitz@thelior.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sounds like a 7-2 loss for the government on birthright citizenship, with Court perhaps deciding it on statutory grounds, as suggested by Kavanaugh’s questions to Wang. But does the canon of constitutional avoidance apply when the Court has a 100+ year old precedent resolving the same Con Law issue?

Lior Strahilevitz@thelior.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A disturbing new piece on how dark patterns have become pervasive on the US Postal Service partner website for processing change of addresses / new voter registration. You want to register to vote? Sure thing, but first buy this Internet access / pizza / furniture, etc. www.wired.com/story/the-go...

The Government’s Shittiest Website

For more than 30 years, the US Postal Service has sent people who need to change their addresses to MyMove. Experts say the site uses dark patterns to trap visitors in an online purgatory of “deals.”

wired.com

Dan Miller@meelar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I love this article, because it's such a clear illustrations of an important point. The West Village is becoming a victim of its own strict zoning. The little details about the inhabitants show us how (thread).

Aaron W. Gordon@agordon.me · 5mo ago

Behind the preserved historical facades, the ultra-rich are buying up adjacent townhomes in the West Village and Upper East Side, combining them into a megamansion. It's part of a broader trend of small multifamily buildings being turned into single-family homes. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Lior Strahilevitz@thelior.bsky.social · 6mo ago

It still amazes me that only 3 US states (IL, TX, and WA) provide meaningful protection against this kind of use of biometrics. In those states it’s impractical to get consent to use the feature from people without Facebook/Instagram accounts. What are the other state legislatures waiting for?

Ben Ewen-Campen@benforward3.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”