Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I have a new draft paper out describing how I used various AI tools to allow my students to orally interact with a simulated legal client before generating written legal advice. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #law #generativeAI #tech #AI #openAI #elevenlabspapers.ssrn.com(Vibe) Coding a Simulated Client Using Generative AIThis article presents a case study in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a generative AI-powered simulated client used in a university-level constitu 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 08/11/2025What a paragraph. From “Make America procreate again: among the MAGA fertility fanatics” economist.com/1843/2025/11... 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 23/10/2025can't imagine why she's single... (via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/s...) 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 17/10/2025I have some thoughts on whether students need to be taught an "AI toolkit" published in the Law Teacher (spoiler - I think they don't). It's open access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comA response to Lorber: Do students need an AI toolkit?Published in The Law Teacher (Vol. 59, No. 3, 2025) 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Of my media appearances this year, the one I am most proud of is almost certainly on this week's @theathleticfc.bsky.social 's LFC podcast "Walk On", on the timely (if admittedly unrelated to my professional expertise) topic of wtf is going on with people pushing dogs in prams. 110
Reposted by Stuart HargreavesDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 27/09/2025ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract. EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN: Shit yeah, train time, time to watch the loudest TikToks 563376287
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Hong Kong would do well to learn from this but i highly doubt that will happen www.bbc.com/future/artic...bbc.comHow Singapore became obsessed by shadeThe sweltering island nation has long prioritised adding greenery and shade at every corner. Could other cities do the same? 011
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 13/09/2025www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... oh the ironycbc.caN.L.'s 10-year education action plan cites sources that don't exist | CBC NewsA major report on modernizing the education system in Newfoundland and Labrador is peppered with fake sources some educators say were likely fabricated by generative artificial intelligence. 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 11/09/2025For those keeping track of LegCo action this week in Asia’s World City, that’s a “no” to recognising same-sex partnerships and a “yes” to giving the Jockey Club a monopoly on legalised betting on basketball. www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...scmp.comHong Kong passes bill legalising basketball betting by majority of 77Providing legal channels is a way to satisfy public demand for certain kinds of betting to prevent people from turning to illegal operators, minister says. 020
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 10/09/2025“A Hong Kong court has ruled it unlawful for authorities to bar a lesbian couple from registering together as parents of their son conceived through fertility treatment” www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko...scmp.comHong Kong court backs lesbian couple on registering as parents of son togetherCourt of First Instance sides with married couple seeking legal recognition of their parental status. 860990
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Does the SCMP not do even a cursory fact-checking of op-ed pieces? "The Nanking Massacre has been disregarded by Western scholars" is something that is easily disproven. www.scmp.com/opinion/chin...scmp.comOpinion | What drives Chinese anger over the Nanking massacreJapan’s wartime atrocities were covered up by the US, and have been disregarded by Western scholars. This cuts deep. 220
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 07/09/2025I shared some thoughts on mandatory labelling of AI content here sc.mp/5psalsc.mpHong Kong to face hurdles in enforcing rules on AI-generated content: expertsHong Kong’s market too small to adopt independent set of laws on generative AI despite growing urgency for regulation, experts say. 000
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 21/08/2025“An added attraction in summer is the chance to observe British holidaymakers as they engage in traditional native customs such as fishing for barely edible crabs, swimming in the frigid North Sea and working on their sunburns.” economist.com/britain/2025...economist.comAsian tourists are returning to Britain. But they look differentNo more coach parties 022
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 17/08/2025A KC no less!!! www.nbcnews.com/world/austra...nbcnews.comAustralian lawyer sorry for AI errors in murder case, including fake quotes and made up casesThe fake submissions included fabricated quotes from a speech to the state legislature and nonexistent case citations purportedly from the Supreme Court. 133
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Imagine showing this headline to someone who just woke up from a 10 year coma. 021
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 19/07/2025This doesn’t seem to have got much traction in the Canadian media (or maybe I missed it), but a Canadian has become the most expensive female footballer of all time. www.nytimes.com/athletic/640... Arsenal sign Canada striker Olivia Smith in world-record £1m dealnytimes.comArsenal sign Canada's Olivia Smith in world-record £1m deal 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 15/07/2025The entire Democratic campaign should be this Johnny Rotten clip m.youtube.com/watch?v=BZOI...m.youtube.com"Ever Get the Felling You've Been Cheated?" - Sex Pistols Famous Last Words Johnny (Lydon) RottenYouTube video by The Pies 000
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 10/07/20251/7 The HK Govt has indicated its plans to fulfill its obligations to create a same-sex partnership regime following the CFA's decision in Sham Tsz Kit. Here is the basic outline: www.legco.gov.hk/yr2025/engli...legco.gov.hk 101
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Baroness Hale provides more insight on her decision to decline reappointment as an overseas judge on the CFA, thanks to a great interview by my former colleague @maramalagodi.bsky.social constitutionalstudies-ojs-utexas.tdl.org/cs/article/v... 020
Reposted by Stuart HargreavesAlexandra Reeve Givens @alexreevegivens.bsky.social · 26/06/2025A conference in the NYT v OpenAI case today impacts the privacy of 400m+ ChatGPT users. No matter the case’s merits, there’s no way the chat outputs of *all* users should be saved without constraint. CDT’s @bankston.bsky.social on why the judge must craft a nuanced approach: cdt.org/insights/in-...cdt.orgIn ChatGPT Case, Order to Retain All Chats Threatens User PrivacyTomorrow, Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York will convene an in-person conference between the parties in the New York Times Co. v. OpenAI cop... 057
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Least surprising tech news ever - the TrumpPhone will NOT actually be made in America, as originally was claimed. It will however "be designed with American values in mind" & there will be "American hands behind" it, whatever that means. 100% this is a Chinese-manufactured OEM. shorturl.at/RfrT2theverge.comThe Trump Phone no longer promises it’s made in AmericaAmerican ‘design,’ built… where? 000
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 13/06/2025The Haíɫzaqv nation has ratified a new constitution. Interesting reading (for nerds like me, at least). mcusercontent.com/561ecee5f5d6...mcusercontent.com 110
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Sam Altman says we are “past the event horizon” on our way to artificial superintelligence blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...blog.samaltman.comThe Gentle SingularityWe are past the event horizon; the takeoff has started. Humanity is close to building digital superintelligence, and at least so far it’s much less weird than it seems like it should be. Robots... 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Hong Kong bans video game as threat to national security www.thestandard.com.hk/hong-kong-ne...thestandard.com.hk'Reversed Front' game app banned: violates national securityThe National Security Department announced on Tuesday, with the approval of the Secretary for Security, that it has taken prohibition measures against the electronic information related to the game ap... 121
Reposted by Stuart HargreavesAndy Hargreaves @ahargreaves.bsky.social · 06/06/2025My 10 top tips for early career academics - the full graphic is here. @pasisahlberg.bsky.social @hargreaves-s.bsky.social @stephanie-hill.bsky.social @uottawaedu.bsky.social @andreastringer.bsky.social @headteacherchat.bsky.social @profcarolcampbell.bsky.social @bernimoreno.bsky.social 085
Reposted by Stuart HargreavesAndy Hargreaves @ahargreaves.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Are you an early career researcher, or teacher? Here are 10 top tips to be made printable as a poster by @tesmagazine.bsky.social with my book's release by @crownhousepub.bsky.social on 1/7. @alisonpeacock.bsky.social @stevemunby.bsky.social @tobygreany.bsky.social @catsplace2000.bsky.social 162
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 02/06/2025📢 CALL FOR PAPERS: CUHK LAW Digital Harms Conference 2025. The Faculty of Law at The Chinese University of Hong Kong invites submissions for our upcoming online conference examining harmful digital communications, scheduled for 10 Oct 2025. Find more here: shorturl.at/cnLSH #tech #law #policyshorturl.atSign in to your account 000
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 02/06/2025i'm sorry what now (via www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...) 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Full text of Harvard’s complaint re: the intl student issue. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...harvard.edu 000
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Professors are right to be concerned about AI use (or at least use that is not explicitly approved), but no one in their right mind should rely on Turnitin or other “AI detectors” to penalize their students www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/s... #genAI #highered #universities #turnitinnytimes.comA New Headache for Honest Students: Proving They Didn’t Use A.I. 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Sir William Young of New Zealand appointed as new overseas member of HK Court of Final Appeal www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...info.gov.hkSenior judicial appointment: non-permanent judge from another common law jurisdiction of the Court of Final AppealThe Chief Executive, Mr John Lee, has accepted the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission (JORC) on the appointment of the Honourable Sir William Gillow Gibbes... 200
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 08/05/2025OpenAI proposes to jointly fund/build out stargate computing centres with nation-states openai.com/global-affai...openai.comIntroducing OpenAI for CountriesA new initiative to support countries around the world that want to build on democratic AI rails. 000
Reposted by Stuart HargreavesBellingcat @bellingcat.com · 07/05/2025Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...bellingcat.comUnmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcatDouble life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world. 17827363
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Meanwhile, in Hong Kong… archive.is/0KD2e 120
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Come on, how is this still happening? arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...arstechnica.comMike Lindell’s lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakesLindell brief has many defects including “cases that do not exist,” judge says. 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 24/04/2025I have a new paper out detailing my experiments with ChatGPT and other AI tools as teaching aids in a large lecture course during the 2023-24 academic year. ler.scholasticahq.com/article/1371... #chatgpt #generativeAI #universities #academia #teaching #learning #artificialintelligenceler.scholasticahq.comChatGPT & Other Generative AI Tools as University Teaching Aids | Published in Legal Education ReviewBy Stuart Hargreaves. This article describes experimentation with generative AI to assist with content delivery and formative assessment in a large lecture course including transcription and summarisa... 020
Reposted by Stuart HargreavesAndy Hargreaves @ahargreaves.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Delighted to announce that my book with Michael O'Connor on Collaborative Professionalism is now published in Mandarin. @corwinpress.bsky.social @pmdewitt.bsky.social @oecdeduskills.bsky.social @hargreaves-s.bsky.social 171
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Robert French resigns from CFA hongkongfp.com/2025/04/11/a...hongkongfp.comAustralian judge Robert French quits HK's top courtAustralian justice Robert French has stepped down from HK's top court after serving as an overseas non-permanent judge since 2017. 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 08/04/2025First CFA webcast is now available as part of the Judiciary's trial of the concept - So Kwai Chung v. Wong Wai Ying Anita & Ors - www.hkcfa.hk/en/work/broa... #hongkong #courts #law #judiciaryhkcfa.hkHong Kong Court of Final Appeal - Webcast Playback 012
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 07/04/2025My god, a button-up shirt and reading the news? Is there no limit ? (NYT) 000
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 27/03/2025I know there's still a ways to go, but this is one of the weirdest/funniest poll tracking graphs I have ever seen. (via 338canada.com/federal.htm) 120
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Getting a taxi through uber is garbage. Wait times are ridiculous. Bring back hktaxi! 010
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 25/03/2025CFA announces pilot scheme to webcast court proceedings www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...info.gov.hkJudiciary launches two-year pilot scheme for live webcast of court proceedings in Court of Final AppealThe following is issued on behalf of the Judiciary: The Judiciary today (March 11) announced that it will launch a pilot scheme for the live broadcasting of substantive... 011
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 23/03/2025For all my fellow non-resident Canadians, providing you have ever lived in Canada at some point you are eligible to vote in the federal election by mail. Time is of the essence to get the ballot if you’re not registered already. www.elections.ca/content.aspx... #elbowsupelections.caApply to vote by mailApply to vote by mail. 164
Stuart Hargreaves @hargreaves-s.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Outsourcing quasi-judicial decisions to LLMs is not a great idea. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/b... 020