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Posts by Kate Silbaugh, Professor at BU Law

Public Health Law, Social Movements, and the Feminist Remaking of AIDS - Health Law Aziza Ahmed, Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of AIDS (2025).Maya ManianFor more than forty years, HIV/AIDS has been understood as a paradigmatic public health crisis...

Delighted to review @azizaahmed.bsky.social's terrific book "Risk and Resistance: How Feminists Transformed the Law and Science of Aids" at JOTWELL: health.jotwell.com/public-healt...

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Corporate Childrearing With children influencing a trillion dollars in spending annually, corporations actively seek to shape children's identities in support of consumer culture and

Good thread. There is an additional family law issue, relating to corporate access to minors. Social media companies have really shifted the default practice. See draft Corporate Childrearing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Dang those horses must be living the sweet life! Or maybe he should look up what happened to the horse population when this happened (it went from 25 million to 4.5 million). Not gonna draw out the metaphor…

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'Corporate Childrearing' is forthcoming in Duke Law Journal (26-27). Corporations play a huge role in children's identity formation. The piece reshapes the family law triangle into a square to make their influence and their intrusion on family relationships explicit.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Sovereignty for Some: Racism, Immigration and the Global Tax Order - Truthdig How an obscure 20th-century tax rule ensured that newly decolonized nations would never fully escape the orbit of their colonizers.

Such a pleasure to team up with my #BULaw colleague @sshermanstokes.bsky.social Sherman-Stokes to tell this important story of race, immigration, and tax law.

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I don’t think so.

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Maybe easier to teach an AI to say I’m not sure? arxiv.org/pdf/2502.13962

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That feeling when you’re about to deep dive into your area of expertise to explain a joke …

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Kagan apologizes for citing herself in Paxton dissent ❤️

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I did it; hope you’re sitting down.

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Mahmoud v. Taylor upends the law allowing parents to direct their child’s education by choosing their child’s school, *not* by creating a buffet of content at the public school that parents can choose. Completely misrepresents Yoder precedent.

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For every millionaire household that would get a tax break from Republicans’ big, ugly bill, 19 Americans would be stripped of their health coverage.

Their priorities couldn’t be clearer.

We must stop this devastating bill.

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Thrilled to host this amazing group at Drexel for another wonderful Family Law Scholars & Teachers Conference! Most grateful for the generous feedback, new ideas, and supportive community #FLSTC @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social

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Oh, you useless lib females eat BRUNCH? With FRIENDS?

Leftist vanguards of the REVOLUTION only eat BREAKFAST

ALONE

AT AN HOUR BEFORE TEN AM

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They are only "Attack Plans" unless they're from the "War Plans" region of France.

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Cut off checks and see who complains to identify fraudsters? Why not just throw them in the lake and see if they float or sink?

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a 3D graph with the X axis of compute budget, Y axis of accuracy, and Z axis of confidence threshold. The chart shows that accuracy increases with higher compute and confidence thresholds, though the trade-off tends to be fewer questions answered overall.

a 3D graph with the X axis of compute budget, Y axis of accuracy, and Z axis of confidence threshold. The chart shows that accuracy increases with higher compute and confidence thresholds, though the trade-off tends to be fewer questions answered overall.

You can't just be right, you have to know you're right. Good advice for LLMs, according to new Johns Hopkins research. Sometimes no answer is better than a wrong one - life or death choices in medicine, for example, or big financial decisions. 🧵

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Republicans do something outrageous and extreme, their opponents respond by critiquing each other.

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Providence, Rochester, New Haven

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I love this. I make this same point to anyone who will listen: teaching high school students to debate is a terrible use of education. It deliberately schools them in insincerity. The 'how to be toxic club,' to avoid real talk. I pointed out to Wurman speaking at BU that this is not debate club.

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PS 100% you could be the original source of the argument.

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In discussing whether we should be scoring points, or getting the story right, I asked if he'd ask the NYT for a correction. He said it didn't warrant it, is my recollection. One other thing: I think he said the opportunity to write this in NYT shaped the project. Again, confirm elsewhere please.

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each explicable (diplomatic immnty, e.g.). You should call him, you'd have a better conversation about his concession than I. I believe he said this was the one part of the op-ed that gave him "heartburn" is how I remember it (could have been a like term, headache/insomnia, but I recall heartburn).

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1/2 I'm not on x and I am not a historian. I read a number of pieces about the op-ed organized and linked by a scholar, and one linked to Calvin's case. I think the op-ed itself does as well. The idea was that open war is required to negate, not simply being Alien [sic]. Other exceptions also ..

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What I saw was a future federal judge

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I'm persuaded that it is, but on this one point, Wurman conceded something wrong with it.

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But he did concede that the way he'd characterized amity in the NYT did give him some heartburn. Not enough to correct.

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At BU last week, Wurman gave me a pointed "if I could finish my thought" because I interrupted his answer to my Q to say his answer was again mischaracterizing. I had prefaced my question by saying we are not at debate club scoring points and concessions. I asked him to issue a correction. A: No.

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Machine learning paper says the longer the machine thinks the better its answer; a second thought is usually more accurate.

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