10+ Best Articles on Law
The most useful articles on law from around the web, curated by thought leaders and our community.
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Top 5 Law Articles
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- Do judges give out tougher sentences when hungry? The story behind a study too good to be…
- Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement.
- The Pirate Preservationists
- This Group Quietly Documents the Past Traumas of People Who Kill
- How Harlan Crow Cut His Taxes With Clarence Thomas Cruises
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Can Literature Cure Law? Should It?
The two disciplines, law and literature, may converge creatively, part amicably, and go their ways dispensing their respective forms of redress.
What Centuries of Common Law Can Teach Us About Regulating Social Media
This morning, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the most anticipated cases of the year for the future of regulating tech platforms. While much of the debate will focus on whether the platforms…
Short Articles
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How Harlan Crow Cut His Taxes With Clarence Thomas Cruises
In lavishing gifts on the Supreme Court justice, the billionaire GOP donor may have violated tax laws, according to tax experts.
Building copyright: an absurdist work in progress
Would you say that a(n actual) banana duct-taped to a wall may be protected by copyright? And would you consider a claim that the author of said duct-taped banana copied the work of another artist who…
Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement.
She says the companies’ chatbots were trained on her book.
Do judges give out tougher sentences when hungry? The story behind a study too good to be…
The era of simple, eye-catching stories about people’s psychology is over. After all, how likely was it that something like human rationality was ever going to be straightforward?
A New Kind of AI Copy Can Fully Replicate Famous People. The Law Is Powerless.
New AI-generated digital replicas of real experts expose an unnerving policy gray zone. Washington wants to fix it, but it’s not clear how.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on law.
The Pirate Preservationists
When keeping cultural archives safe means stepping outside the law
This Group Quietly Documents the Past Traumas of People Who Kill
A rare look inside mitigation specialists’ investigations to help people on death row stay alive.
Lies and the Law: An Introduction
We live in an era of profound anxiety about the threat that lies, and false speech more generally, pose to American democracy. It’s not hard to understand why. Lies saturate the political realm.…
Inside the Law School Meltdown the Supreme Court Has Unleashed
Professors have had enough.
The Price of a Harvard Lawyer
Corporate Capture at the Longest Standing US Law School…
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