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Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Might AI translation inadvertently shrink reality itself?

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Google Gemini CC0 AI language translation is making communication easier around the world. But might it also shrink our very perception of r...
Monday, June 2, 2025

Global collab promotes teaching law without borders

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Peltz-Steele, Lewinbuk, Rott-Pietrzyk, Kim, Rigó © Used with permission Collaborators and I had the privilege of discussing the Global Law C...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Updated 'TORTZ' features latest on Amazon liability, Texas 2-step, DaBaby defamation foes, much more

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New 2025 editions  of TORTZ: A Study of American Tort Law , volumes 1 and 2 are posted and ready for academic year 2025-26. Two-volume TORTZ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

'Take It Down' Act purports to redress revenge porn, but invites censorship by only incentivizing take-down

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Derived from Google Gemini, RJ Peltz-Steele CC0 President Trump signed into law bipartisan federal revenge porn legislation Monday—alas, not...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Appeal in slip'n'fall points to deeper mysteries of historical 'open and obvious' danger doctrine

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Google Gemini CC0 Rejecting the phrase "open and obvious" as magical incantation, the Massachusetts Appeals Court Friday affirmed ...
Monday, May 19, 2025

LoMonte tells timely Tenn. tale of vanishing public records, legislative response in retention requirement

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My friend and colleague Frank LoMonte , CNN senior legal counsel, has published a superb and timely new article, "The Race to Erase: De...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Iglesia celebra ordenación en comunidad quechua

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Pastor Cruz a la izquierda, con Pastor Zhulleima y su esposa y hijos. Capture from video at BBC RI media En mi iglesia de Rhode Island el d...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Commencement speakers envision new beginnings

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Commencement at UMass Law yesterday featured a couple of great speeches. And I'm not an easy critic. Both speakers implicitly recognized...
Friday, May 16, 2025

Awards recognize law students Girouard, Riley

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A moment to celebrate two of my ace former students, Kaitlyn Girouard and Jack Riley , who took home awards from the UMass Law Student Bar ...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Student Shieh shakes up Brown with DOGE-like query, but universities hold fast in defense of admin 'bloat'

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University Hall and Van Wyckle Gates at Brown University Robert Barnett via Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 A conservative student journalist who r...