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Chris Morten

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Associate professor of law at @nyulaw.bsky.social‬. Director of the Science, Health & Information Clinic (SHIC). He/him. chrismorten.com

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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 12h
Event at @nyulaw.bsky.social @nyuengelberg.org with @tahiramin.bsky.social & @reshmagar.bsky.social! Monday, October 19, 6 pm! We'll discuss Tahir's new book, Pharma Monopoly: The Battle for the Future of Medicines, co-authored with Rohit Malpani. Free! Open to all! Join us!
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, Marc Shkurovich explains why every US politician running on single-payer or universal healthcare should also be talking about public pharma.
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The Time for Public Pharma is Now
To make medicines more affordable, policymakers are increasingly turning to price controls and out-of-pocket caps. These measures, while lowering costs, leave decisions about which drugs to…
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Tahir Amin @tahiramin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ll be discussing my co-authored book Pharma Monopoly on Oct 19 at NYU with @cmorten.bsky.social and @reshmagar.bsky.social. The event is free and open to all with RSVP. Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/pharma-mon...
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Pharma Monopoly: The Battle for the Future of Medicines
Tahir Amin discusses his new book on how to change the pharmaceutical industry for the better.
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Initiative for Medicines, Access & Knowledge @imakglobal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NYC! Our CEO @tahiramin.bsky.social will be discussing his new book, Pharma Monopoly, with NYU Associate Professor of Law @cmorten.bsky.social and Yale Professor of Medicine @reshmagar.bsky.social on October 19. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/pharma-mon...
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Pharma Monopoly: The Battle for the Future of Medicines
Tahir Amin discusses his new book on how to change the pharmaceutical industry for the better.
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NYU Engelberg Center @nyuengelberg.org · 28/09/2026
Feel that tingling? That's because the first of these exciting pharma law events is TODAY! "Public Pharma, Public Power: Taking Back Control of the Medicine Supply" At @thenewschool.bsky.social kicks off at 5:30. It is not too late to register: event.newschool.edu/publicpharma...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
2 exciting pharma law events coming up! First up, Mon, Sep 28: "Public Pharma, Public Power: Taking Back Control of the Medicine Supply" At @thenewschool.bsky.social, w speakers from T1International & the Health & Political Economy Project at the Institute for Race, Power & Political Economy. 1/
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm excited to be part of this conference at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social next week! On the future of big tech regulation. Please join us if you're in DC! www.law.georgetown.edu/tech-institu...
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/08/2026
thinking about what one trillion dollars of investment in clean energy would look like and getting so mad i need to lie down with the lights off
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
New from me & the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social: Amicus brief of Intellectual Property Scholars in xAI v. Bonta, No. 26-1591 (9th Cir.) A major appeal with consequences not just for AI transparency but all of tech & regulation Quick 🧵! 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Amici Curiae Brief of Intellectual Property Scholars in Support of Appellee in <i>xAI v. Bonta</i>, No. 26-1591 (9th Cir.)
Amici curiae are scholars of intellectual property. Amici have no personal interest in the outcome of this litigation but share a professional interest in seein
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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
both the clientele and our cashier at zabar’s complimented my hat. thanks @salome.bsky.social and @cmorten.bsky.social
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/06/2026
Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%
OpenAI in talks to lease 10GW data center from SB Energy in Ohio
Data center project on federal land in the state

June 10, 2026 By Georgia Butler  Have your say
OpenAI is in discussions regarding leasing a proposed 10GW data center being developed by SB Energy in Ohio.

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SCOTUSblog @scotusblog.com · 04/06/2026
The first opinion of the morning is in Hikma Pharmaceuticals v. Amarin Pharma. A unanimous court holds that Amarin, a drug maker, has failed to state a claim for active infringement of its patent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A horrifying new Ebola outbreak is underway. There's no approved vaccine for the new strain causing the outbreak. @sariahmed.bsky.social @mattherder.bsky.social Janice Graham & I published a paper last year on the history of J&J's Ebola vaccine—and why it divested in 2023 from new vaccine research.
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karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Our work on the political economy of adenoviral vectors is among few papers connecting the financialization of drug development to the scientific history of ebola. Important context for thinking critically about which players are on the scene responding to the current outbreak. @cmorten.bsky.social
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Community forum on Thursday morning now with eight (8!) candidates for NY12 now confirmed! Join @prep4allnow.bsky.social, @nyuengelberg.org & me for a discussion of the future of HIV care & prevention! Free and open to all! At @lgbtcenternyc.bsky.social!
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Upcoming event with @nyuengelberg.org! Community Forum on HIV Care & Prevention with candidates for NY12! Join me, @prep4allnow.bsky.social's Jeremiah Johnson & candidates for a conversation on protecting and expanding PrEP access and strengthening HIV infrastructure. Thursday May 14 10 am-noon!
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🚨 New from the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social! 🚨 New FOIA suit on behalf of @prep4allnow.bsky.social! We uncovered the existence of a previously secret M-CRADA between Gilead & NIH, which could govern lenacapavir R&D. We're suing to get it!
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Today, Patrick Lin explains how surveillance pricing is making it easier for corporations to exploit consumers, how states are starting to push back against these practices, and why those efforts are running into First Amendment challenges.
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Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries
For over a century, fixed prices have made markets more transparent. Surveillance pricing threatens to reverse that progress by allowing corporations to secretly tailor prices using personal data.
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OK the fact that this was published at @lpeblog.bsky.social clarifies that I need to finally finish that article on why theoretical foundations of price discrim arguments are all messed up. Consumer surplus and info asymmetry are just free floating concepts here! lpeproject.org/blog/surveil...
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Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries
For over a century, fixed prices have made markets more transparent. Surveillance pricing threatens to reverse that progress by allowing corporations to secretly tailor prices using personal data.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...
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Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF
Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We in the Science, Health & Information Clinic at @nyulaw.bsky.social are honored to represent CHLP! I'm excited to share some of our work together in the weeks and months ahead!
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Health Justice Initiative @hji-sa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
MUST READ: 'The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern' @mattherder.bsky.social @fatimahassan.bsky.social A Hill and @roojinhabibi.org Via @bmjmedicine.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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The United States is driving a public health emergency of international concern
Matthew Herder and colleagues call for broader mobilisation to avoid the deaths and morbidity in low and middle income countries likely to result from recent US policy changes Announcing the United ...
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
UPDATE: @statnews.com @pharmalot.bsky.social covered our Research Letter! "Researchers suggest penalties are seen by pharma companies as a cost of doing business." Glad to talk with Ed Silverman about DOJ's long-running underenforcement of the Anti-Kickback Statute. www.statnews.com/pharmalot/20...
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Drug company penalties for paying kickbacks to doctors failed to dent bottom lines, analysis finds
Drugmakers that were penalized for kickbacks paid only 2.2% of their U.S. revenue generated by selling drugs that were the focus of the alleged violations during the past quarter century.
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 13/03/2026
The Amazonification of Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post continues apace.
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
New Research Letter out today! "Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Kickback Resolutions and Associated Financial Penalties, 2000-2025" We studied DOJ's enforcement against illegal drug marketing and found companies paid settlement costs of just over 2% of drug revenues—a tiny fraction!
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Strongly recommend this excellent piece. It actually understates the US failure: Brazil and S. Korea aren’t outliers. Quite the opposite. Since 2010, 31 democracies have convicted or banned leaders from office. Accountability is the democratic norm. America is the sole outlier.
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The latest cynical, destructive, anti-science move by Makary & Prasad: Blessing FDA approval of new drugs & vaccines on the basis of just one pivotal clinical trial. They promise to "spur biomedical innovation" (as always), but this will mean more unsafe & ineffective products in patients' bodies.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story. And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law. It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real. people.com/jeffrey-epst...
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Jeffrey Epstein Was Vladimir Putin's Wealth Manager, FBI Source Claimed in Newly Released Epstein Files
Jeffrey Epstein managed money for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, among other powerful world leaders, one confidential source claimed in FBI testimony
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
John Roberts is not breaking from Trump and is not neutrally applying the law. Anyone pretending otherwise needs to have a long look in the mirror and reflect on what clearly core aspect of their identity needs to believe something so laughably false
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
we need a rom-com that unites the people in revolutionary struggle
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
"[L]ayoffs to CDC staff who worked on smoking meant an important survey on youth smoking and vaping — normally out in the fall — was never released." So much for MAHA. www.wsls.com/news/politic...
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RFK Jr. pledged more transparency. Here's what the public doesn't know anymore
Health experts say the federal government now shares less public health data, even after Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ promised “radical transparency.”.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
lfg
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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 31/01/2026
Calling up your Dem senators and thanking them for doing this is how you encourage them to hold the line, no matter how low your estimation of them is
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
But EPA is "leviathan"
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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The war on immigrants is a contracting bonanza for Palantir, Deloitte—and a gravel contractor (coincidentally a Trump donor) who's gotten $6b to build the wall. www.ft.com/content/c741...
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Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown
Palantir, Deloitte and gravel company led by ally of US president among beneficiaries
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.
A pitbull with a big head stand in the foreground behind them is three containers of bright, orange, poppies and a container with sunflowers in it. Behind that is a street in crosswalk with cars in it.A screenshot of an Instagram story that includes a photo of three masked men and green military gear arresting a person who is on the ground. Below that is a photo of a black explorer and it’s license
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9:05am - One person
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Sunset & Echo Park.
STAY SAFE OR COME OUT!
9:05 a. m. - Una
persona secuestrada en Sunset y Echo Park Ave. MANTÉNGANSE
SEGUROS O SALGAN SI PUEDEN!
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home! Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
Shown is a blank sample administrative warrant. The only place for signatures is for an immigration officer. No judge has to sign off on it.
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Yale CRRIT @yalecrrit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
We are excited to share a recently published editorial in @jama.com that discusses the FDA’s review of REMS requirements for mifepristone. (1/7)
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Jocelyn Simonson @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
For years, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & I have been frustrated with what we call the Part IV Problem in legal scholarship, the expectation of neat & feasible prescriptions to end pieces. Our frustrations are heightened in this moment of authoritarianism, as we wrote today at @lpeblog.bsky.social:
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.
DHS: It is horrific to see radical agitators bring children to their violent riots.
PLEASE STOP ENDANGERING YOUR CHILDREN.
ABC News • @ABC• 7h
Two children, including a 6-month-old, were hospitalized last night after federal agents deployed tear gas during Wednesday night's protests, according to the Minneapolis Office of Community Safety....
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Correct. The Biden Admin tried to fix as much of this as possible, but the courts stopped it. As I said then, they had no idea what kind of mess they were making. And the Trump Admin has no idea what to do about it.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...
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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🚨 New publication from the Science, Health & Information Clinic! 🚨 Sarah Lamour, Rhea Sahai & Humphrey Shen, "Exploring a Public Option in Pharmacy Benefit Management: A research and advocacy toolkit"! Co-published with T1nternational! 1/
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