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A brief tribute to the great Edward Levi, the 71st Attorney General of the United States.
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Edward Levi’s Department of Justice
What a Difference a Half Century Makes
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January 16, 2026 at 3:11 PM
A brief tribute to the great Edward Levi, the 71st Attorney General of the United States.
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Do you live in California? Getting ready to delete your data with data brokers? Delete Act takes effect tomorrow. More info here: www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/30/p...
Delete Act: How you can request your personal information be purged by data brokers in the New Year
California legislative analysts concluded that data brokers offer valuable services, but also threaten people’s rights and privacy.
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December 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Do you live in California? Getting ready to delete your data with data brokers? Delete Act takes effect tomorrow. More info here: www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/30/p...
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🗣️ We're hosting an archival version of "plainlanguage.gov" to help make sure this trusted resource remains available to folks who need it.
plainlanguage.gov | Home
Plain language makes it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications.
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October 7, 2025 at 8:06 PM
🗣️ We're hosting an archival version of "plainlanguage.gov" to help make sure this trusted resource remains available to folks who need it.
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“As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one’s life or one’s work,” Leonard Cohen said, in 2016.
Leonard Cohen Makes It Darker
At eighty-two, the troubadour had another album coming. Like him, it was obsessed with mortality, God-infused, and funny.
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August 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one’s life or one’s work,” Leonard Cohen said, in 2016.
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What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy
Policy must be informed by, but also facilitate the generation of, scientific evidence
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July 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
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Mr. Rufo certainly has a talent for getting people mad.
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July 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Mr. Rufo certainly has a talent for getting people mad.
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Read this essay if you want to know what inspired writing is.
I can feel the joy the author had in creating this piece; Her energy and thoughts are pushing this story forward. Just great.
I can feel the joy the author had in creating this piece; Her energy and thoughts are pushing this story forward. Just great.
July 4, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Read this essay if you want to know what inspired writing is.
I can feel the joy the author had in creating this piece; Her energy and thoughts are pushing this story forward. Just great.
I can feel the joy the author had in creating this piece; Her energy and thoughts are pushing this story forward. Just great.
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Some thoughts on new opportunities and challenges in machine-assisted legal text drafting
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June 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Some thoughts on new opportunities and challenges in machine-assisted legal text drafting
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"We wanted to take an arduous and costly interaction ... and transform it into a simple and positive experience. I’m writing this ... so that a technical audience can follow along and fact-check me along the way. You don’t have to take my word—now, I can show you what we did."
Direct File is Open Source!
And I want to share some of my favorite parts of the codebase
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June 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"We wanted to take an arduous and costly interaction ... and transform it into a simple and positive experience. I’m writing this ... so that a technical audience can follow along and fact-check me along the way. You don’t have to take my word—now, I can show you what we did."
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Our Friday workshop on AI for A2J was gratifyingly international.
Folks from England, Germany, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Czech Republic, Australia, Ireland, Brazil, Azerbaijan, India, the Netherlands, Singapore, and a bunch of US states.
Papers available from a link at suffolklitlab.org/events/ai-fo...
Folks from England, Germany, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Czech Republic, Australia, Ireland, Brazil, Azerbaijan, India, the Netherlands, Singapore, and a bunch of US states.
Papers available from a link at suffolklitlab.org/events/ai-fo...
AI for Access to Justice at the International Conference on AI and Law 2025 (AI4A2J-ICAIL25) — Suffolk LIT Lab
June 20th 2025, co-located with ICAIL 2025 in Chicaco, IL Two years after the launch of ChatGPT, we are just beginning to see a new, experimental wave of
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June 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Our Friday workshop on AI for A2J was gratifyingly international.
Folks from England, Germany, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Czech Republic, Australia, Ireland, Brazil, Azerbaijan, India, the Netherlands, Singapore, and a bunch of US states.
Papers available from a link at suffolklitlab.org/events/ai-fo...
Folks from England, Germany, Taiwan, Vietnam, the Czech Republic, Australia, Ireland, Brazil, Azerbaijan, India, the Netherlands, Singapore, and a bunch of US states.
Papers available from a link at suffolklitlab.org/events/ai-fo...
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Encouraged to see that we have over 80 people registered for the workshop on AI and access to justice at this week's international conference in Chicago - suffolklitlab.org/events/ai-fo...
AI for Access to Justice at the International Conference on AI and Law 2025 (AI4A2J-ICAIL25) — Suffolk LIT Lab
June 20th 2025, co-located with ICAIL 2025 in Chicaco, IL Two years after the launch of ChatGPT, we are just beginning to see a new, experimental wave of
suffolklitlab.org
June 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Encouraged to see that we have over 80 people registered for the workshop on AI and access to justice at this week's international conference in Chicago - suffolklitlab.org/events/ai-fo...
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Congratulations to Prof. Sprigman, who leads a team at ALI which has just approved its first-ever Restatement of the Law, Copyright—a major milestone in helping courts navigate complex areas of copyright law.
May 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Congratulations to Prof. Sprigman, who leads a team at ALI which has just approved its first-ever Restatement of the Law, Copyright—a major milestone in helping courts navigate complex areas of copyright law.
Paul Graham (YC, @paulg at the other place) described receiving an LLM-generated message as like getting the compiled code instead of the source code.
May 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Paul Graham (YC, @paulg at the other place) described receiving an LLM-generated message as like getting the compiled code instead of the source code.
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Thanks to Larry and Alan and everyone involved in the wonderful Westminster Town Hall Forum.
Last night I had the privilege of talking with @jacklgoldsmith.bsky.social and Larry Jacobs about rule of law in the Trump administration at the amazing Westminster Town Forum. Really great conversation. www.youtube.com/live/Dl_2thM...
Threads of Our Fabric: The Fabric of Our Constitution - Jack Goldsmith
YouTube video by westminstertownhall
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April 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thanks to Larry and Alan and everyone involved in the wonderful Westminster Town Hall Forum.
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Great news: Judge Cote just denied the government's motion to dismiss our complaint on behalf of federal employees whose information was disclosed to DOGE. A win across the board
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April 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Great news: Judge Cote just denied the government's motion to dismiss our complaint on behalf of federal employees whose information was disclosed to DOGE. A win across the board
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Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
March 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
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Today, #GeorgetownLaw Dean William M. Treanor joined 79 law school deans in signing the letter posted below, issued March 26, 2025.
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
!["As deans of law schools, we have a special responsibility for the legal profession. Recently, the federal government has imposed significant sanctions on the law firms of Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling, Paul Weiss, and Jenner & Block seemingly because of the clients they and their lawyers represented and litigation in which their lawyers participated.
We write to reaffirm basic principles: The government should not punish lawyers and law firms for the clients they represent, absent specific findings that such representation was illegal or unethical. Punishing lawyers for their representation and advocacy violates the First Amendment and undermines the Sixth Amendment.
We thus speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."
[Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:326sthh7kvwgjxiobjabout2/bafkreidwv4buajoyedezluwpxxlzg4nyrkko647r3q37yjbfcouat3hrpy@jpeg)
March 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Today, #GeorgetownLaw Dean William M. Treanor joined 79 law school deans in signing the letter posted below, issued March 26, 2025.
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]
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Wired is absolutely killing it with both tech and political reporting these days. I used to subscribe to the magazine back in the 1990s. I just resubscribed
they're absolutely right
March 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Wired is absolutely killing it with both tech and political reporting these days. I used to subscribe to the magazine back in the 1990s. I just resubscribed
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Bob Bauer on the Trump administration's attacks on law firms. open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
Donald Trump's All-Out Attack on Law Firms
Yes, it's about retaliation—but also more
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March 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Bob Bauer on the Trump administration's attacks on law firms. open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
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new paper with some relevance to the state of the union:
“Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia”
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“Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia”
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Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia
<span>Theoretical accounts of power in networked digital environments typically do not give systematic attention to the phenomenon of oligarchy—to extreme conce
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March 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
new paper with some relevance to the state of the union:
“Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
“Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The cause of Perkins Coie is the cause of an independent bar that's willing and able to represent clients vigorously against the federal government and its officials. That should make it everyone's cause.
Please read the first 5-10 pp. at least to see how vital the stakes are.
Please read the first 5-10 pp. at least to see how vital the stakes are.
Perkins Coie, which helped defeat Trump's attempts to subvert the 2020 election, fights Trump's order targeting the firm as a violation of the 1st, 5th and 6th Amendments and the separation of powers.
"Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
March 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The cause of Perkins Coie is the cause of an independent bar that's willing and able to represent clients vigorously against the federal government and its officials. That should make it everyone's cause.
Please read the first 5-10 pp. at least to see how vital the stakes are.
Please read the first 5-10 pp. at least to see how vital the stakes are.
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Via “One First,” my (very quick) attempt to untangle this morning’s 5-4 #SCOTUS ruling in the foreign aid funding cases—and what it means going forward both for foreign aid funding and for the broader Trump litigation universe:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/129-untang...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/129-untang...
129. Untangling the Foreign Aid Ruling
There's a lot going on in the Court's cryptic, 5-4 ruling in the foreign aid funding cases. Here's my (very) quick attempt to unpack some of the most important takeaways.
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March 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Via “One First,” my (very quick) attempt to untangle this morning’s 5-4 #SCOTUS ruling in the foreign aid funding cases—and what it means going forward both for foreign aid funding and for the broader Trump litigation universe:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/129-untang...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/129-untang...
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a very good interview with @marklemley.bsky.social about his legal strategy to make DOGE's attack on federal employees cost them—big takeaway is that people who can actually tie specific damages (like misuse of their SSN) to DOGE's actions need to contact him. www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/25/m...
This Lawyer Thinks He’s Found a Way to Make DOGE Pay Feds for Accessing Their Information - Washingtonian
Stanford Law School professor Mark Lemley says Elon Musk's project violated the Privacy Act when it got into OPM's data.
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February 27, 2025 at 6:20 PM
a very good interview with @marklemley.bsky.social about his legal strategy to make DOGE's attack on federal employees cost them—big takeaway is that people who can actually tie specific damages (like misuse of their SSN) to DOGE's actions need to contact him. www.washingtonian.com/2025/02/25/m...