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Jon Festinger

@festinger.bsky.social
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Academically inclined K.C., @ UBC’s Allard School of Law. Teaching Torts, Intellectual Property, & A.I. Law this 2025/26 academic year. Also affiliated with QMUL CCLS. Sometimes sports-radio pundit. Of Counsel, Chandler Fogden Lyman. Vancouver Canada.

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Law school grades are predictive of lawyers' incomes. But Gabriele Plickert and I found that women with the highest grades earned LESS than lower-achieving men in private practice.
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The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession | Law & Social Inquiry | Cambridge Core
The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession - Volume 48 Issue 2
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Jon Festinger @festinger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Somebody needs to write a short pithy list/article titled “10 Things I’ll Miss Most About BuzzFeed”! ;)
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Jon Festinger @festinger.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
allard.ubc.ca/about-us/new...
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Shaping Law and Legal Education for the Future
A new Allard Law initiative will help law students and the broader legal community respond to technological change.
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Noahpinion @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev · 13/09/2025
The Bluesky-ization of the American left
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The Bluesky-ization of the American left
Progressives discovered a seemingly invincible weapon. One day it stopped working.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/09/2025
The Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. That same year, a new method of constitutional interpretation was put forward. This would become known as originalism. Jill Lepore on how the radical philosophy has undermined the Constitution: theatln.tc/ezc53Llb
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CanLII @canlii.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
*COMMENTARY UPDATE* One of our most consulted casebooks -- Samuel Beswick's award-winning "Tort Law: Cases and Commentaries" -- has just received a major revision! #tortlaw #legalcommentary zurl.co/czdMt
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CanLII @canlii.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The latest issue (vol 22 no 1) of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology (CJLT) is now available on CanLII! With contributions from Amanda Turnbull, Gulnoza Abdurakhmonova, Christian Clavette, Bertina Lou, and Christopher D'Souza. #techlaw #legalcommentary zurl.co/ylAoa
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CanLII @canlii.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The latest issue (vol 58 no 2) of the UBC Law Review is now available on CanLII! With contributions from Jon Festinger, Céline Castets-Renard, Robert Diab, Bradley Henderson, Katie Szilagyi, Peter Wills, Isabelle St-Hilaire, David Cohen + Matthew Peters. #ai #techlaw #legalcommentary zurl.co/DKCqY
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Michael McCann @mccannsportslaw.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I became a law professor in 2005, and have taught sports law every year. Looking back at my syllabus from 20 years ago, let's just say things have changed—from the NCAA, to sports betting to marijuana. Plus now it's a "real" area of law. My @sportico.bsky.social column:
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20 Years Later, Teaching Sports Law Is a Whole New Ballgame
Michael McCann became a sports law professor in 2005 and has seen this area of law evolve dramatically since that time.
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
📣AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones.
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Jon Festinger @festinger.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
An alpha tool for legal aid clinics that my wonderful colleague Nikos Harris & I have been working on with UBC CIC. More to come. drive.google.com/file/d/1k_tc...
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LegalAidTool_Video.mp4
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Jon Festinger @festinger.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Vol. 58 No. 2 UBC Law Review: Special Issue on AI & The Legal Profession can be dowloaded here www.canlii.org/commentary/j... My introduction to the Special Issue here www.canlii.org/en/commentar...
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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
At some point, Ms. Raine came in to check on her husband. “Adam was best friends with ChatGPT,” he told her. Ms. Raine started reading the conversations, too. She had a different reaction: “ChatGPT killed my son.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I have posted the latest version of my census of US cases referencing "emojis" or "emoticons" (over 1,300 in total) 📈 digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 03/04/2025
New filing: "Perkins Coie v. DOJ (EO punishing firm)" Doc #45: Unopposed MOTION for Leave to File Amicus Brief by Amici Curiae 363 Law Professors. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Amici Brief, # 2 Text of Proposed Order)(Malone,… [full entry below 👇] Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69725919
The entry's text: Unopposed MOTION for Leave to File Amicus Brief by Amici Curiae 363 Law Professors. (Attachments: # 1 Exhibit Amici Brief, # 2 Text of Proposed Order)(Malone, Phillip) (Entered: 04/02/2025)Thumbnail of page 1 of the PDF linked above.Thumbnail of page 2 of the PDF linked above.Thumbnail of page 3 of the PDF linked above.
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I am one of hundreds of law professors who joined this amicus brief supporting Perkins Coie in its challenge to Trump's unconstitutional and retaliatory executive order targeting the law firm digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/04/2025
poor Nintendo, announcing the Switch 2 just in time to have it cost ten thousand dollars
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Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 02/04/2025
New filing: "U.S. v. Live Nation (ticketmaster/live nation antitrust)" Doc #503: Letter Download PDF | View Full Case #CL68557723
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United States of America v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., 1:24-cv-03973 - CourtListener.com
Docket for United States of America v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., 1:24-cv-03973 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 02/04/2025
New filing: "Perkins Coie v. DOJ (EO punishing firm)" Doc #42-2: Text of Proposed Order Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69725919
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Lawrence Lessig @lessig.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Jon Festinger @festinger.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
How an AI courtroom simulation is helping first-year law students combat public speaking fear via @ubyssey.ca ubyssey.ca/science/ai-c...
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How an AI courtroom simulation is helping first year law students find their voices
Many are familiar with the racing heart and sweaty palms that can come with public speaking. This anxiety and the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has inspired professors at the Peter A. Alla...
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Jon Festinger @festinger.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Another excellent Andres Guadamuz piece on the current status of AI copyright authorship: What's going on with AI copyright authorship? www.technollama.co.uk/whats-going-...
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What’s going on with AI copyright authorship?
It’s been a while since we covered the AI authorship debate here at Llama Towers, despite it being one of the first AI legal questions we discussed here nearly 10 years ago (time flies when y…
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
www.digitalinformationworld.com/2025/02/rese...
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Researchers Highlight BlueSky’s Transparency and User Control Amid X Exodus
Researchers find BlueSky offers user data control, transparency, and decentralized moderation, yet lacks financial security without ads.
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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A high-powered lawyer representing Meta in a copyright case said he was dropping the company as a client due to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity.”
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Big-Shot Lawyer: I Won’t Represent Meta Any More Thanks to Zuckerberg
A lawyer representing the social media giant in a copyright dispute with famous writers said he could no longer “in good conscience” keep working with the company.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 09/01/2025
Tomorrow, SCOTUS will hear oral argument on the constitutionality of the TikTok ban legislation. Niharika Vattikonda and Benjamin Kelley explain the facts of the case, the D.C. Circuit’s decision on the matter, First Amendment questions at hand, and more.
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The D.C. Circuit Court's TikTok Ban Decision, Explained
The court ruled the divest-or-ban requirement does not violate the First Amendment.
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F1WDC2021 @f1wdc2021.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The '21 #F1 WDC was legitimised based on a lie that "there is no other mechanism in the rules for amending the race classification" FIA Judicial & Disciplinary rules allow ICA to amend classifications (art 10.11) & FIA can refer the Stewards decision to ICA (art 9.1.1c) #AD2021 #NoMoreBS #F1xed
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Daniel Valente 🏎️ @f1guydan.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
The last 2 times a former champion joined Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton won the drivers' title. 2014: • Raikkonen joins Ferrari • Hamilton wins WDC 2015: • Vettel joins Ferrari • Hamilton wins WDC Now Hamilton is the former champion joining Ferrari. Full circle moment coming? 🤔
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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Hey you! With the #trademarks idea! We'd love to hear about it. We'll be accepting papers (or drafts) from students / practitioners / academics / etc. until March 4th for potential presentation at the International Trademark Association Trademark Scholarship Symposium in San Diego in May
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Ed Timberlake @trademarksaremagic.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Per the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board: "a pictorial representation . . . may be considered just as descriptive as a word if it immediately conveys information as to the content, subject matter, feature, or characteristic of the goods or services" #trademarks
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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Honestly, generative AI is going to bring back the oral exam faster than anyone could have predicted.
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown @enbrown.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
A Texas school district pulled the Bible from school library shelves earlier this month as part of a review of potentially "sexually explicit material." reason.com/2024/12/31/b...
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Bible back in Texas schools after being pulled for sexual content
Canyon Independent School District pulled sections of the Bible from its library shelves over concerns that its "sexually explicit" material violated Texas law.
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Judge Roy Ferguson @judgefergusontx.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I asked ChatGPT to brief "Trust Me v. Bro," a nonexistent case I used in response to a claim that items/information publicly released by the media is inadmissible at trial for some reason, and of course GPT was quick with the full cite and (glorious) synopsis: Trust Me v. Bro, 999 U.S. 867 (2024).
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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/12/2024
we got the boys starter boxes for Pokemon cards for Christmas and the four year old is seriously leveling up his subtraction ability so he can figure out how much damage is left before he can knock out a Pokemon games: they can be great learning tools!
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Jon Festinger @festinger.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Do I ever feel you on this. My count is only up to 3 though.
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Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 30/12/2024
New filing: "U.S. v. Live Nation (ticketmaster/live nation antitrust)" Doc #380: Order on Motion to Withdraw as Attorney Download PDF | View Full Case #CL68557723
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United States of America v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., 1:24-cv-03973 - CourtListener.com
Docket for United States of America v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., 1:24-cv-03973 — Brought to you by Free Law Project, a non-profit dedicated to creating high quality open legal information.
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Jon Festinger @festinger.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Am I the only one still marking stuff?
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
"This case provides the first opportunity for a Colorado appellate court to address the appropriate sanction when a self-represented litigant files a brief peppered with GAI-produced hallucinations" research.coloradojudicial.gov/en/vid/10622...
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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Blog Post: The Fifth Circuit’s Campaign to Undermine Section 230 Is Making Progress–AB v. Salesforce blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...
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The Fifth Circuit's Campaign to Undermine Section 230 Is Making Progress-AB v. Salesforce - Technology & Marketing Law Blog
This is a FOSTA case involving Backpage, but it’s against Backpage’s vendor Salesforce. That makes this a tertiary liability claim. Here are the steps in the plaintiffs’ alleged chain of liability: V)...
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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Shout out to all my fellow academics who are spending today grading.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed. The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/12/2024
What if they succeed in making an Artificial General Intelligence but it's really stupid and lazy
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Jon Festinger @festinger.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
My holiday season reading list….
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