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How much would you be willing pay Facebook or Google to use their Internet platforms without being subjected to ads? (Hint: “$0” and “they should pay me” are the wrong answers.) Geoffrey A. Fowler poses this thought-provoking question in this … Continue reading →

Update (4/12/18): The Fox

Below is this week’s cover page — created by artist Tom Gauld — for The New Yorker. It’s the first musical cartoon in that venerable publication’s storied history. You can listen to the music corresponding to each springtime speech bubble … Continue reading →

Our favorite line (sung too Cardi B’s Bodak Yellow) is, “The tax code is the worst thing scribbled since Ben Affleck’s back tattoo …”

Below the fold is an extended excerpt from this excellent essay by Kai Stinchcombe:

Julia Angwin suggests “four ways to fix Facebook” in this essay. We restate and then critique each one of her suggestions below:

Below the fold are two fun quotes comparing and contrasting civil law versus common law approaches to judging via the Volokh Conspiracy:

We are so over Facebook, and we don’t use Instagram or Snap, but we have really grown to love Twitter. Below the fold is just a small sampling of some of our favorite Twitter accounts on our Twitter feed (@lawscholar):

That is the title of this new paper by our friend and colleague William Baude (@WilliamBaude on Twitter), a law professor and legal scholar at the University of Chicago. The qualified immunity doctrine is supposed to protect public officials from … Continue reading →