'The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light.'

— James Baldwin.

Dream job alert!

The new School of Data Science building is officially open!  Congratulations to Dean Phil Bourne and all who have contributed to the creation of this wonderful new space, especially Jaffray Woodriff. And special thanks to Gov. Glenn Youngkin for joining us yesterday.

With the addition of Prof. Mitu Gulati to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, UVA Law School has 10 resident faculty members in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. law.virginia.edu/news/202404/pr…

Thanks for having me on!

Arthur Ellsworth Dick Howard has had a hand in writing more constitutions than all the Founding Fathers put together. When he formally retires from teaching at the end of the semester, he will be the longest-serving professor in UVA history. news.virginia.edu/content/having…

Today at Loyola Law Chicago I talked about a group of Irish American can labelers from Chicago, and two meat processing workers in Arkansas, and why it is so important that we stop mergers that hurt workers. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

Chinese court rules on its first AI voice rights case globaltimes.cn/page/202404/13…

QUICK THOUGHTS ON TRUMP ARGUMENT TODAY

The basic positions were as follows: Trump wants official acts immunity against criminal prosecution, which is really broad, Special Counsel wants something narrower (or no immunity at all).

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She continues: 'The state of Idaho claims it has the right to forbid pregnant women and girls—and onlypregnant women and girls—from receiving emergency care that could save their lives.' Pregnancy sabotages your right--to life.

'Alito’s questioning treated these catastrophic injuries to pregnant women as if they were mere distractions from the true subject at hand: the embryo or fetus ...invested with all the humanity that the pregnant woman lacks' --Mary Anne Franks msmagazine.com/2024/04/19/ida…

Beloved ⁦UVA Law School⁩ graduating 3L privacy peeps—shall miss you so much and thank you for being my RAs, fellows, and inspirations! ⁦Will be using my tumbler every day!

Reminder: Tomorrow in person and online at UCL Faculty of Laws, see Margot Kaminski Jennifer Cobbe Andrew Strait and me in discussion on algorithmic assessment and the whole array of EU, US and private governance that is emerging. tickets: ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/20…

i'm supposed to use they hashtag but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

the People's History of Black Twitter documentary premieres on Hulu - May 9, 2024

First statement on AG Opinion in C-446/21 on Meta / #GDPR - Meta must limit the use of personal data for advertisment: noyb.eu/en/ag-cjeu-fac…

As #GenerativeAI becomes mainstream through tools like Open AI’s #ChatGPT , it introduces new and transformational use cases for AI in everyday life. However, there are also risks to consider. Read our updated 'Spectrum of AI' report to learn more. ⬇️🤖 fpf.org/blog/newly-upd…

The videos for our recent conference on 'Artificial Intelligence and the Constitution' are now online, including my keynote address, for those who are interested.

Colorado Law Silicon Flatirons

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Congratulations to the new elected members of the American Academy of the Arts & Sciences. amacad.org/new-members-20…
Here’s the new law section:

Genuine question: Have any of the legislators now expressing concern about the safety of Jewish students on Ivy League campuses issued statements about the Jewish undergrad from Penn who was stabbed to death by a literal Nazi in 2018?

'My husband’s LexisNexis report had a breakdown of the 203 trips we had taken in the car since Jan, including the distance, the start and end times, and how often we hard-braked or accelerated rapidly...GM’s spokeswoman [said] this data collection happened only to people who…