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Supreme Court to Decide How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media
February 26, 2024
The most important First Amendment cases of the internet era, to be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, may turn on a single question:…
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Silicon Valley’s Khanna: Top scholars being ‘ignored’ in AI debate
February 8, 2024
The artificial intelligence craze has swept through Washington this past year, with lawmakers increasingly paying attention to the ways the tool can be harnessed —…
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Here Is One Way to Steal the Presidential Election
January 22, 2024
An op-ed co-written by Lawrence Lessig: What happens when you stress-test America’s system for electing a president? How well does it hold up? After the…
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IP expert Ruth Okediji discusses Biden administration’s ‘march-in’ proposal to target high drug prices
January 5, 2024
Harvard Law School Professor Ruth Okediji says that while the Biden administration’s proposal to use federal ‘march-in’ rights to lower drug costs is an important development, it may be more a signal than the initiation of a workable plan.
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Harvard Law School Professor Finds ChatGPT Invents Fake Law Less Than The Supreme Court
November 29, 2023
ChatGPT has notoriously invented law in its desperate effort to satisfy the request of its masters. In this sense, the consumer-facing generative artificial intelligence tool…
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How Seattle’s democracy vouchers are working
November 21, 2023
About 30,000 voters used democracy vouchers in this year’s Seattle City Council elections, pouring nearly $2.4 million in public money into candidates’ campaigns. Yes, but:…
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Elon Musk’s Twitter is a ‘$44 billion albatross’ a year later
November 1, 2023
Late last October, Elon Musk officially closed a deal to acquire the platform then known as Twitter for $44 billion, after months of legal proceedings…
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Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet
October 24, 2023
Today, I’m talking to Harvard law professor and internet policy legend Lawrence Lessig. Larry is a defining expert when it comes to free speech and…
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A Jewish comedian and businessman filed on Friday an appeal against his conviction in a controversial New York Southern District fraud case that is tangled…
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The nonprofit Equal Citizens began crowdsourcing for a video contest this week that could earn the winner at least $50,000, attorney and political activist Lawrence…
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Artificial intelligence isn’t just the future of law, it’s the now. That was perhaps the message that weaved its way through all the speakers and…
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What critics get wrong — and right — about the Supreme Court’s new ‘major questions doctrine’
April 19, 2023
Oren Tamir, a post-doctoral fellow, says that many of the critiques of the major questions doctrine tend to miss the mark — and that, with some changes, the doctrine could be fixed in ways that would make it a valuable contribution for our law and democracy.
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Justices Told ‘Billions’ At Stake In AI Patent Crusade
April 14, 2023
A Harvard Law School professor is among a handful of legal academics who say that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s refusal to issue patents…
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If you’re fixing to own the libs or roast DJT, Twitter is a great place to be. The sickest burn wins every time. But if…
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Ways to combat dark money in Massachusetts politics
April 13, 2023
The last several election cycles in Massachusetts show just how antiquated and ineffective the state’s campaign finance laws and regulations have become — and how…
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SJC hears challenge of Healey ballot question rejection
February 7, 2023
The Supreme Judicial Court heard arguments Monday on a thorny and novel question of political spending and free speech rights. Proponents of a potential 2024…
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The AI boom is here, and so are the lawsuits
February 1, 2023
That was quick: Artificial intelligence has gone from science fiction to novelty to Thing We Are Sure Is the Future. Very, very fast. One easy…
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Lax campaign finance rules likely to survive Bankman-Fried scandal
January 17, 2023
If anything could jump-start the stalled effort to reform the role of money in politics, one might think it would be an epic scandal involving…