Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Jennifer Huddleston Ramya Krishnan Alan Rozenshtein Tech Policy Press has an amazing roundup of public statements by each senator, where there is one, on a possible TikTok divest-or-ban order. Looks bleak for TikTok... techpolicy.press/what-us-senato…. .

It's the “Eldritch Portents” Edition!

This week, Alan Rozenshtein and @Qjurecic were joined again by Molly Reynolds to talk over the week’s national security news, including: lawfaremedia.org/article/ration…

1/ Here's my (very detailed) post about Tuesday night's protest at the home of Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

It includes new reporting, detailed legal analysis, and links to many other sources (including videos).

Link: bit.ly/3Ue6uh1

Would a TikTok ban violate the First Amendment?

Join RSM Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society TOMORROW (4/12) to hear from a panel of legal experts, including RSM’s Anupam Chander, Jennifer Huddleston, Ramya Krishnan, Jenna Leventoff (@ACLU), and Alan Rozenshtein.

Don't miss it!
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Eugene Volokh and I disagree about a lot—including the war in Israel and Gaza—but we have some common ground when it comes to protecting free speech on campus. Episode 2 of Knight First Amendment Institute’s new podcast, War & Speech, just posted: open.spotify.com/episode/6gJPUS…

As we approach SCOTUS oral arguments in Trump's presidential immunity defense, Alan Rozenshtein argues that presidents should receive qualified, not absolute, immunity in both civil and criminal cases. lawfaremedia.org/article/correc…

There are many moneyball opportunities in law faculty hiring.

New in Lawfare, some thoughts on presidential immunity. lawfaremedia.org/article/correc…

The irony of NPR's capture by the left is that it dramatically reduces their reach/influence while simultaneously bolstering central claims made by their ideological adversaries ('the media is a left-wing propaganda machine'). Universities have followed a similar path.

The Journal of Free Speech Law has now published all of the papers that were written in connection with Knight First Amendment Institute's 'Lies and the Law' project last year. Wonderful essays here from leading legal scholars, political theorists, and others. journaloffreespeechlaw.org

My latest paper The Illusion of Inclusion argues that corporate self-regulation and stakeholder engagement can't give us the public sphere that we want. This one got me a job so I am particularly fond of it. Fordham Law Review

Extremely lame.

Very glad to receive this support from University of Minnesota Law School but particularly glad that Alan Rozenshtein and I are cooking up some very interesting national security conversations and gatherings.

Very important issue and argument.
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The “Going Once, Going Twice” Edition!

This week, Alan Rozenshtein and Quinta Jurecic were joined by Natalie Orpett to talk through the week's big national security news, including: lawfaremedia.org/article/ration…

Prof. Alan Rozenshtein was quoted in CNN Politics about a criminal case that was once viewed as the most open-and-shut prosecution against former President Donald Trump but has been mired in delay, unresolved logistical questions, and fringe legal arguments.
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well, spoiler alert i guess, but turns out The 3 Body Problem is *not* about a throuple all trying to find T-T jobs at the same university

'[M]odel weights are not generally used to express ideas among individuals but, rather, serve primarily as instructions to order machines to act.'
Alan Rozenshtein pushes back on the argument that model weights for AI are protected by the First Amendment. lawfaremedia.org/article/there-…

Unlike source code, which humans use to express ideas to each other, model weights function primarily as machine-readable instructions.
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I have a new piece up on Lawfare arguing that the First Amendment does not generally protect the distribution of machine-learning model weights. This is an important legal issue as the government considers AI export controls. lawfaremedia.org/article/there-…