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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Our proposed legislative framework suggests restricting their use to (1) serious crimes, subject to (2) exhaustion requirements, along with (3) a multi-step process subject to judicial oversight at every step of the way.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Now that SCOTUS has ruled that "geofence warrants" are 4th Amendment searches, Congress and state legislatures need to enact legislation to guide how and when such warrants should be issued. Here's a guide my Clinic wrote tackling just that question. tlpc.colorado.edu/tlpc-publish...

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TLPC Publishes Model State Policy to Regulate Geofence Warrants – Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic (TLPC)

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Current "digital sovereignty" discourse holds that states can do as they please with internet infrastructure on their territory. I argue for extending transit principles to the Internet's infrastructure, with the strongest protections for core networks.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Transit is what keeps straits open to navigation even where the bordering states claim sovereignty in their waters. Every major international infrastructure is protected by transit rights, save for one: the Internet.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My article recovers transit as a structural principle of international law. Transit in this sense refers to the right of foreign persons, goods, and conveyances to cross sovereign territory when convenient or necessary to an international voyage.

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The Yale Law Journal @yalelawjournal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

In his Article, @vivekdotca.bsky.social surveys four centuries of transit law, which requires states to permit passage across their territory. He distills transit law’s principles and makes the case for extending them to digital infrastructure and the internet.

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Free Law Project ⚖ @free.law · 20/11/2024

Just published: Our guide to neutral citations — a key to unlocking better access to case law. Learn why they matter and how they support open legal systems: free.law/advocacy/neu... #AccessToJustice #LegalTech

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The Case for Neutral Citations in the Law

Free Law Project is the leading nonprofit using technology and data to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive. Creators of CourtListener, RECAP, and Bots.law.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

My attempt to use Apple‘s dictation technology to write my new paper on Internet infrastructure would go a lot faster if it could tell the difference between “peering“ and “peeing.”

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 14/11/2024

Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Like the jar at issue in this case, the present author also has a "'fairly squat body' that sits beneath a 'slowly sloping shoulder.'" www.theage.com.au/business/com...

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Australian coffee brand Vittoria humbles Moccona in glass jar fight

The $15 billion American-Dutch coffee giant JDE picked a fight with Sydney coffee company Vittoria – and lost.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Guess what? Voter fraud seems to impact U.S. presidential elections only once every 8 years! And did you know the orbits of Venus & the Earth follow an 8 year cycle? Must be that foreigners are influenced by Venus to interfere in every 2nd presidential election… 🤔 earthsky.org/astronomy-es...

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EarthSky | The 5 petals of Venus and its 8-year cycle

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

I can tell you how your privacy policy interacts with various theories of privacy, but don't look at me to help you draft it! :)

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Thank you for plugging my paper! I appreciate it! :)

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

If only they had Newton OS emulation as well…

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I blame the Bluesky algorithm for not surfacing this post in my feed sooner! Won't someone please deny them 230 immunity for their curation decisions? 😜

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

They gave him the last word AGAIN!

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 11/09/2024

"Viktor Orban, one of the most respected..." holy fuck dude

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Your friendly reminder that in a normal country that isn't in the thrall of First Amendment Lochnerism, Trump and Vance's false and despicable statements about Haitian-Americans would probably be actionable. And I don't think that's a bad thing. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...

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Saskatchewan (Human Rights Commission) v. Whatcott - SCC Cases

This page contains a form to search the Supreme Court of Canada case information database. You can search by the SCC 5-digit case number, by name or word in the style of cause, or by file number from ...

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

I apparently type "territorial sovereignty" into my Mac so frequently that it now provides this as an autocomplete suggestion whenever I type in just "ter."

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

Only one of the 35 members of JD Vance’s “inner circle” as described by Politico is a woman. www.politico.com/interactives...

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Inside JD Vance’s Inner Circle

Silicon Valley donors, MAGA allies, and political operatives: The networks behind Trump’s VP pick.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

You're right that many of the decrees enacted under the relevant article of the French legislation deal with both imports to and exports from Russia. But the press release doesn't offer us much to go on.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Time flies—I can't believe that today marks the start of my tenth year as a clinical law teacher! But it's just as fun and impactful as on day one!

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

I couldn’t say based on the current publicly available information and my quick read of the relevant French laws. But I was struck by how the provisions to which the press release alludes form the legal basis for parts of France’s export control and sanctions regime against Russia.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Too soon to tell, but will be interesting to see what comes out from France in the next several days.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

The decrees enacted pursuant to this provision refer to various controls France imposed on the export of dual-use goods to Russia pursuant to the 2014 invasion of Ukraine & its involvement in the Syrian civil war. (Example below)

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Décret n° 2020-74 du 31 janvier 2020 relatif au service à compétence nationale dénommé « service des biens à double usage » - Légifrance

Décret n° 2020-74 du 31 janvier 2020 relatif au service à compétence nationale dénommé « service ...

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

It seems like the encryption-related aspects of Durov's detention may relate to export controls on encryption, including controls imposed in the aftermath of Russia's 2014 invasion of Ukraine.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Lastly, the PDF version of this article is fully accessible, and that the TOC, the URLs, and internal x-refs are all clickable as I made this using the Adobe online PDF generation service. To ensure accessibility, please use this instead of "print to PDF" feature built into your OS. </thread>

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

(If you can't tell the difference between real and fake small caps, check this out: practicaltypography.com/small-caps.h...)

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Small caps | Butterick’s Practical Typography

Butterick’s Practical Typography

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Lastly a typographic note. This draft was set in the beautiful, excellent and free EB Garamond, which offers a set of real small capitals (as opposed to the fake ones that MS Word creates for you). You can get it at www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/i...

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EB Garamond

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

I'm grateful to so many for their help and support in drafting this paper. Not all of them are on Bluesky, but @chup.blakereid.org @anupamchander.bsky.social are among some who are!

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

This is especially so because sovereign rights at sea are layered in three dimensions. By analogy, we could consider layering sovereign rights in cyberspace. Specifically, different sovereigns might exercise different kinds of sovereign rights over different layers of the internet.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

A state's sovereign rights over the seas off their shores diminish as one move further out to sea, and they are subject to the rights of other states (and their nationals) to engage in peaceful uses of those seas. My article argues that this is a good way to think of the nature of state power online

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Instead, I argue that the notion of "sovereign rights" we find in the law of the sea offers a better way of conceptualizing the powers of states in the online sphere.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

My article challenges the now-widespread belief in legal academia and government circles that traditional, Westphalian notions of territorial sovereignty can and should be applied to cyberspace.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

I'm delighted to announce that my new article "Anchoring Digital Sovereignty" will be appearing in the next issue of the Chicago Journal of International Law. Those of you who can't wait till January can download it from SSRN at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

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Anchoring Digital Sovereignty

<div> <i>Chicago Journal of International Law vol. 25.2 (forthcoming Jan. 2025)</i> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> For a quarter-century, a consensus has pre

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

As Romney’s station wagon approached the speed of light, time slowed, meaning the dog spent less than 12 hours strapped to the top.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 21/08/2024

@tiffanycli.bsky.social I think there’s plenty in this thread to make a great McSweeney’s piece! Just sayin…

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Zettlr is a nice cross-platform app that is available for Linux and offers many of the conveniences of Ulysses and Scrivener. I'd use it as my daily driver except that it doesn't handle footnotes as intuitively as Ulysses/Scrivener do. Still, it's worth a look. www.zettlr.com

zettlr.com

Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

A powerful Markdown editor for researchers and journalists.

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Vivek Krishnamurthy @vivekdotca.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

I think that every other part of @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social's workflow (which is what I basically use) would work on another platform. Ulysses and Scrivener offer neat interfaces to work with a plethora of Markdown "sheets" but it's nothing you can't do in a plain-text editor.

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