Given the manifest flaws of the U.S. Constitution, how did Americans come to idolize this document? And how might we push beyond this confined vision?

Today, Aziz Rana kicks off a symposium on his new book, *The Constitutional Bind.* 📕🔥

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Today, Willy Forbath continues our symposium on *The Constitutional Bind,* arguing that key left figures and movements have always made canny use of redemptive constitutional narratives and arguments. Rejecting that tradition leaves far too much on the table.

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🔔‼️Publication alert‼️🔔 This week, Chris Morten Salome Viljoen and I released our paper 'Researcher Access to Social Media Data: Lessons from Clinical Trial Data Sharing' in Berkeley Technology Law Journal!

Couldn't be more excited for this paper to be out in the world.

This is one of the best descriptions I've lately ran into.

📢NEW FROM ME!

On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state 'outside the scope of this paper' leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.

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Very excited to see this one out in the world !! 💫

Great collection of thoughts on the TikTok ban !

Had no idea my data gov piece cracked the top list over at YLJ ! Cool to see these comparisons and honored to be in such good company on this list :)

The hiring season isn't over, but for entry-level law faculty candidates who successfully landed a position, please consider reporting your info to Sarah Lawsky's list — it's a great way to introduce yourself to the lawprof world. (And congrats!)
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CFA! The Data Fluencies Project is hosting a Research Development Workshop on “Drilling Down to the Data: Navigating Data Politics at the Heart of AI Policy”. Come join us in NYC on July 22-23! ssrc.org/programs/data-…

Next to no one is doing investigations into luxury power players anymore. This from Bloomberg about Loro Piana, the wild popularity of $9000 ‘quiet luxury’ sweaters and what trickles down to the bottom of the supply chain is a great one. bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

'Cloud platforms control not only computing infrastructure but also the marketplaces for AI models and applications, representing a dual power.'

Excellent new study on the political economy of data infrastructures & the 'industrialisation of AI'
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Briefly emerging from parental leave to report that Taxing Novelty (the article formerly known as Taxing Taxonomies) is forthcoming in UC Davis Law Review papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Revisions to come once I’m back!

'The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes'
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering… #Anthropology #Computing #Environment via The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social

A bill limiting the use of algorithms for determining rent has passed the Colorado House. The argument is that these tools let landlords collectively push up rent faster.

How can the United States Supreme Court (a) not know how to remove metadata and (b) not have a standard practice to do so?

Which raises another important question: How much do they understand about science and technology when it intersects with the law?

New from me:
'The NIH-Moderna Vaccine: Public Science, Private Profit, and Lessons for the Future'
A commentary on Ameet Sarpatwari's analysis of Moderna's capture of value created by NIH & other public funders.
Builds on our 2023 Senate HELP testimony!
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Drop everything and download (even read!) this extraordinary and hard-hitting new paper from Jeremy Kessler. I shed a tear (of joy) in witnessing the revival of left legal theory in this country.

Law and Historical Materialism by Jeremy Kessler :: SSRN papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

So happy to announce that my new article, The Radical Fair Housing Act, is forthcoming in Virginia Law Review!

I argue that the FHA uses a distinctive conception of 'discrimination,' one which questions market structures. Abstract and link below.

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Told you so!*

(*that the only biz model for even the best model startups is being acquired by or otherwise entering into an encumbered relationship w one of the big US infra providers. Meaning there’s no chance rn for meaningful EU (or, other) competition w US AI giants.)