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The New York Times [free to read]: “The deals have become highly lucrative for the justices, including for those who used court staff members to help research and promote their books. Only three months into Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s first Supreme Court term, she announced a book deal negotiated by the same powerhouse lawyer who …
Barder, Sam and Robbennolt, Jennifer K. Optimistic Overconfidence: A Study of Law Student Academic Predictions, U. Ill. L. Rev. Online 106, Jul 23, 2023. “Every fall, new law students arrive on campuses to begin their legal studies. They are by turns nervous and excited knowing they will spend the next three years studying and debating …
The Atlantic (read free link): Authors are at the mercy of people who don’t bother reading their work. “…The terrible power of Goodreads is an open secret in the publishing industry. The review site, which Amazon bought in 2013, can shape the conversation around a book or an author, both positively and negatively. Today’s ostensible …
In Custodia Legis – Mitch Ruhl, a paralegal specialist in the American Law Division of the Congressional Research Service. “One of the challenges for any researcher tackling questions of constitutional interpretation is knowing where to start. The Congressional Research Service’s (CRS) Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation (or “Constitution Annotated”) serves …
ProPublica: “Reflecting rising concerns that Big Tech’s infatuation with artificial intelligence threatens privacy and economic competition, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has begun investigating Google’s efforts to swoop up medical information derived from biopsy specimens of millions of military service members. Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat and the chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, wrote …
McKinsey Report, July 26, 2023 Generative AI and the future of work in America During the pandemic (2019–22), the US labor market saw 8.6 million occupational shifts, 50 percent more than in the previous three-year period. Most involved people leaving food services, in-person sales, and office support for different occupations. By 2030, activities that account …
In Custodia Legis: “Our new report, Restrictions on Land Ownership by Foreigners in Selected Jurisdictions, is available on law.gov. The report includes individual surveys of 39 jurisdictions with high gross domestic products. It includes a chart, a map, and a diagram to easily observe the results of individual reports. We found that five countries, namely …
Quartz: “The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants public companies to be more transparent and forthcoming about “material cybersecurity incidents,” the federal agency said yesterday (July 26). Its new rules, passed by a 3-2 vote, dictate companies must disclose details of incidents and their effect on the bottomline in a section of the Form …
The Guardian: “In 1966, an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created the first chatbot. He cast it in the role of a psychotherapist. A user would type a message on an electric typewriter connected to a mainframe. After a moment, the “psychotherapist” would reply. User: Men are all alike. Chatbot: IN WHAT WAY User: They’re …
The Verge: “Arc, the Mac and iOS browser from The Browser Company, is finally ditching its waitlist. The company has been testing the app for more than two years and has, until now, made every interested user sign up for a waitlist. But now, it’s launching for real. Arc’s version number just jumped to 1.0, …
