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Marco Almada @marcoalmada.com · 01/10/2026

It's called Law School

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every so often, I'm horrified anew.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Monstrous Regiment “Stopping a battle is much harder than starting it. Starting it only requires you to shout ‘Attack!’ but when you want to stop it, everyone is busy.”

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think we'd see a lot more urgency about regulating AI in Silicon Valley if the AI agents suddenly developed a sense of restorative justice, and instead of them threatening humanity with total extinction, they just wanted to redistribute wealth and reverse power hierarchies.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

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Law + Tech News Bot @news.bot.suffolklitlab.org · 02/09/2026

TL;DR: Norway is considering a ban on camera-enabled wearable devices, known as 'pervert glasses,' citing significant privacy risks that necessitate regulation.

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The Nordic country says wearable camera headsets need to be regulated given their privacy risks.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 24/08/2026

The NYT piece is IMO both too scary and not scary enough, in that the AI targeting tech used in these Russian drones isn’t a big surprise - but we also cannot assume at all that adding AI to drones will REDUCE civilian casualties. It is just as (if not more) likely to do the opposite. On purpose.

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And the Conclusion is up! That's a wrap for Edition 1! (Now time to get started on Edition 2 . . .)

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Our Conclusion invites you to help refine our work - the chapters are on the website (techlawbook.com) and online as googledocs; we're hoping readers will drop comments with better examples, links to relevant papers, and corrections to errors. This has been a joy. We hope you find it useful!

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Chapter 15 is only one page of actual content - but it may well be the most important step. Namely, there's no ending: Our methodology provides a means for thoughtfully resolving techlaw uncertainties, but it's better understood as enabling resolving, and re-solving, and re-solving them.

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Chapter 14 tackles the biggest legal response: reimagining the legal regime. It might take the form of new understandings (negligence), new regimes (antitrust, products liability), or new institutions (the ICC and the ICC). It closes with an analysis of relevant institutional factors.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 20/08/2026

OK wait I just thought of something. If you were an intelligence agent for China or Iran and you wanted to bait some U.S. officials into coughing up military secrets, you could maybe do worse than creating a prediction market around the specific question you want the answer to…. ?

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hits WAY too close to home. Especially in late August -

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Ashley Shew @ashleyshoo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

If you get enough projects in the air, you can always be procrastinating and working way too hard at the same time.

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

While I can't hope to fill Stephen Dycus's shoes, I'm delighted to be joining the stellar team of authors of National Security Law (Bill Banks, Emily Berman, Peter Raven-Hansen & @stevevladeck.bsky.social) I teach from this book, and it's an honor to be able to contribute to it going forward.

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National Security Law, Eighth Edition

Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including academic lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabili...

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evil vince @vinceness.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i’m on that slithy tove shit, i’m gimbaling in the fuckin wabe baby

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Chapter 13 is up! And note that we're intentionally posting these chapters as googledocs open to comments, as we welcome suggested additions and citations. Get access to the whole book at techlawbook.com!

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Assuming the law has 'run out', Chapter 13 reviews the techlaw questions relevant to proposing new rules. Thanks to Brad Greenberg, @birnhack.bsky.social @paulohm.bsky.social for excepts that complicate the choice between more tech-neutral or tech-specific content. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New from ISP Fellows BJ Ard and @crootof.bsky.social! Read “The Challenge of Generativity,” Chapter 9 of Technology Law, and explore the book’s website: Chapter 9: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Book website: www.techlawbook.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/08/2026

Small drones are killing more civilians than ever before - and we need to act. Here’s my thoughts on what we need to do, like establishing a center dedicated to evaluating and investigating drone attacks, training investigators, and explaining how IHL applies to self-defense against drones:

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Lately, I've been spending a lot of time analyzing, reporting on, and researching the horrifying global uptick in the use of small, cheap, short-range drones to intentionally target and kill civilians...

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Chapter 12 is up! And note that we're intentionally posting these chapters as googledocs open to comments, as we welcome suggested additions and citations.

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Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New working paper with @janinadill.bsky.social: "The Moral Logic of Blame for Civilian Casualties": In survey & interview data, residents of Mosul Iraq penalize the intentional killing of 5 civilians more than the unintentional killing of 125, & blame is not zero-sum: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 28/07/2026

This is an excellent encapsulation by @doctorow.pluralistic.net of one of the core takeaways I want my students to get from my AI Law & Policy course. pluralistic.net/2026/07/24/s...

As a technology, AI isn't exceptional. It's not exceptionally wicked. It's not exceptionally good. Take away the accompanying, galactic-scale stock-swindle, and we'd call AI's applications "plug-ins" and we'd use them and abuse them in the same way that we've used every other technology:

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Chapter 11 is up! And note that we're intentionally posting these chapters as googledocs open to comments, as we welcome suggested additions and citations.

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In Chapter 11, we start to explore one of the biggest techlaw questions: When to regulate? We lean on @gaiabernstein.bsky.social's "windows of opportunity" concept to begin a discussion around relevant questions and framing strategies. (We continue the timing discussion in Chaps 12 and 13 . . . )

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TL Chapter 11: Timing Regulatory Action

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Honestly surprised by this framing. LOAC is hardly a moral compass, and it wasn't designed to be one. It's a practical floor, not an aspirational ceiling - it reflects states' self-interest, not human rights or morality. Cavalier violations of baseline requirements just show how far we've fallen.

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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

A group of academics/policy ppl have been shouting for more than a decade about technological due process, the right to know, and the right to human decision making. Why? 👇🏻

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Chapter 10 is up! And the techlawbook.com site now has teaching materials, with more to come this week!

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Chapter 10 unpacks the Precautionary Approach, including bans (I finally got to write about AWS!), general critiques (@casssunstein.bsky.social), and variations (moratoriums, licensing regimes, burden-shifting, etc) (Sachs). It closes with a GenAI X-risk case study (@mtokson.bsky.social).

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Technology Law Chapter 10: The Precautionary Approach BJ Ard and Rebecca Crootof Last updated May 2026. Comments welcome! Cite as: BJ Ard & Rebecca Crootof, The Precautionary Approach, in Technology ...

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The perfect skee, that marries my college and PhD theses, doesn't exi . . .

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 14/07/2026

google's "why don't you want to use our documentation chatbot" survey offers a pretty good list of reasons not to use their documentation chatbot

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

What a fantastic clarification. I look forward to reading the chapter!

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Wonderful! I'll reach out offline -

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

After a brief pause, we're back! And now with a fancy new website: www.techlawbook.com I'll be posting the remaining chapters of the first edition of Technology Law here weekly; they'll all be up by mid-August.

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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Chapter 9 leans heavily on @zittrain.bsky.social's concept of "generative technologies" to explore the tradeoffs and limits of the permissive approach. We discuss the promise and perils of generativity and how it may be layered, relative, and regulated. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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