Free Law Project Is Scanning America's Case Law Free Law Project is scanning and digitizing millions of pages of published case law reporters, picking up where Harvard Law Library left off, to make CourtListener a complete and authoritative free so...

Exciting news! @free.law project is scanning America's case law, picking up from where Harvard left off free.law/2026/04/16/s...

What really happens on the emergency docket By now, readers of SCOTUSblog are quite familiar with the Supreme Court’s emergency docket, where parties come to the court seeking emergency orders, oftentimes without full briefing and oral argument...

Stevens papers reveal the perilous path for researchers attempting to draw conclusions from the Supreme Court's emergency docket www.scotusblog.com/2026/04/what...

Oregon's New AI Companion Law, Explained techlaw.osbar.org/blog/oregons...

Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. Just Ask the Publishers Who Printed the Seventh Commandment as 'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery' in 1631 A new exhibition at Yale Library explores the history of typos across five centuries. Visitors will see corrections that were listed inside copies of works by James Joyce, Upton Sinclair and Nicolaus Copernicus

Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. There’s the 1631 Bible that says “thou shalt commit adultery” but James Joyce resisted some of his corrections: “These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of.” [smithsonianmag.com]

National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.

National Academies of Sciences, unlike the Federal Judicial Center, refuses to remove climate data from the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence (via @bespacific.bsky.social) arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Defining Technologies of Our Time - Aspen Digital This handbook offers an accessible, easy to use entry point for grappling with the question of how to define AI in a legal context.

🤖 In policy? Thinking about the definition of "AI"?
Led by @aspendigital.bsky.social, a set of us at intersection of AI/ethics/law/policy put together this resource on the lineage of policy "AI" definitions, what they're getting right, what might be improved.
www.aspendigital.org/report/defin...

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: One Semester, Eight Vibe-Coded Teaching Tools - AI Law Librarians Somewhere around tool number five, I realized I had a problem. The kind where you keep saying "almost done" and then it's 2 AM and you're finalizing a React app that lets your students act as bots and...

One Semester, Eight Vibe-Coded Teaching Tools (or, "What Happens When a Law Professor With Some Python Experience and an AI Coding Assistant Starts Saying Yes to Every Pedagogical Impulse") www.ailawlibrarians.com/2026/03/04/c...

LexisNexis Says Data Breach Has Been Cointained; Hackers Claim Access to Government and Law Firm User Data LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed that hackers breached its servers and accessed customer and business information, after a threat actor calling itself FulcrumSec publicly posted stole...

LexisNexis breach exposes law firm and government user data — 400,000 profiles compromised www.lawnext.com/2026/03/lexi...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It. 40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, including the well-hidden "verbatim" mode cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Building the Stochastic Sandpit for AI We've spent the last couple of years treating generative AI like a vending machine. Select a task. Insert a prompt. Retrieve a product. And to be fair, in

"We've spent too much time trying to make AI accurate, and not enough time making it useful for thinking." @denniskennedy.bsky.social on using sandpit mode to re-center human judgment and ask better questions www.denniskennedy.com/blog/2026/02...

LexisNexis Launches Lexis+ with Protégé, Replacing Lexis+ AI with an End-to-End Workflow Platform You can bid adieu to Lexis+ AI. LexisNexis is today announcing the general availability in the United States of Lexis+ with Protégé, an integrated flagship platform that  fully replaces Lexis+ AI — wh...

So long Lexis+ AI, hello Lexis+ with Protégé (and hundreds of workflows) www.lawnext.com/2026/02/lexi...

What the Science Says About Hallucinations in Legal Research - AI Law Librarians This is Part 1 of a three-part series on AI hallucinations in legal research. Part 2 will examine hallucination detection tools, and Part 3 will provide a practical verification framework for lawyers....

What the science says about hallucinations in legal research, and how to use this info to pick—and use wisely—the right tool (by @thefordon.bsky.social) www.ailawlibrarians.com/2026/02/19/w...

New database reveals how Americans use water Water powers our lives. It feeds our crops, keeps factories running, generates electricity, and fills our taps. But until now, no one had a clear, national picture of how much water we're using—and fo...

Now publicly available: The United States Water Withdrawals Database, the first nationwide resource to track who is drawing water from rivers, lakes, and underground aquifers, and in what amounts. phys.org/news/2026-02...

Introducing the Interim Relief Docket Stat Pack For years, scholars and commentators have tracked the Supreme Court’s merits docket through detailed statistical analyses. SCOTUSblog’s Stat Pack has become an essential resource for understanding how...

New from @scotusblog.com, the Interim Relief Docket — or 'Shadow Docket' — Stat Pack www.scotusblog.com/2026/01/intr...

Anthropic’s Legal Plugin for Claude Cowork May Be the Opening Salvo In A Competition Between Foundation Models and Legal Tech Incumbents To read today's news, you'd think it was the shot heard 'round the world — or around the legal tech world, at least. 'Legal software companies have suffered sharp declines in their share prices,' repo...

"For legal tech, it is landing more like a tsunami than a drop." Bob Ambrogi on Anthropic's surprise legal plugin for Claude Cowork www.lawnext.com/2026/02/anth...

AI Tools Are A Starting Point - Not A Substitute - For Legal Research - Above the Law Using AI does not change your duties or lower the standard of competence.

AI Tools Are A Starting Point — Not A Substitute — For Legal Research abovethelaw.com/2026/02/ai-t...

Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....

The Trump administration is planning to use artificial intelligence to write federal transportation safety regulations. “It seems wildly irresponsible," said one DOT rule writer. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Legal Tech Leaders Join Other Legal Professionals In Open Letter Supporting the Rule of Law A number of leaders from the legal technology community are joining other legal professionals in an open letter supporting the rule of law. 'Lawyers, judges, and government officials all take an oath....

Legal Tech Leaders Join Other Legal Professionals In Open Letter Supporting the Rule of Law www.lawnext.com/2026/01/lega...

Part four of this series on assessing the risks of AI to lawyers reminds us: don't forget about the finances abovethelaw.com/2026/01/like...

202. The Timing of Rulings in Argued Cases The Supreme Court's internal norms usually make it more than a little difficult to be confident about which decisions in argued cases will be handed down when.

"Seeing who's here, it's not the case you thought." @stevevladeck.bsky.social on what drives the timing of when the Supreme Court hands down rulings in argued cases www.stevevladeck.com/p/202-the-ti...

AI’s Memorization Crisis Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry.

This new Atlantic piece cites my work with @afedercooper.bsky.social, Amy Cyphert, and others in discussing the complexities around AI memorization of training content

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Are We Prepared To Deal With The Coming Wearable Revolution? - Above the Law Wearables offer tremendous potential benefits. But our responsibility is to think hard about the risks these wearables bring to the legal process.

Is legal prepared for the wearables revolution? abovethelaw.com/2026/01/are-...

Why Account Setup Matters More Than the Generative AI Tool Why Account Setup Matters More Than the Generative AI ToolGenerative artificial intelligence (GAI) is advancing far more rapidly than the technologies that preceded it, and adoption rates are soaring....

For careful lawyers, a path for ethical adoption of consumer-grade general AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini www.nicoleblackesq.com/post/why-acc...

Lewis & Clark Law School faculty and staff book recommendations. Image is a 6x3 grid of book covers from the linked selections, from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon through The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery. Click through for listing of all books in plain text with links.

Winter break is here, so we'll step away and catch you all in January. Need something to read? Enjoy our annual @lclarklaw.bsky.social faculty and staff book recommendations lawlib.lclark.edu/annualbookre...

New: IFCMA Climate Policy Database maps 1600 mitigation policies across 38 countries www.oecd.org/en/data/dash...

EPA removes at least 80 webpages related to climate change, its impacts, and its causes.

U.S. Legislative Branch Data Map. Part of the Innovation Hub's efforts "to cultivate collaboration, foster data standardization, and increase transparency" (via @bespacific.bsky.social) www.bespacific.com/do-you-ever-...

Guest Post – Teaching Legal Research in the Generative AI Era: When Source Blindness and Source Erasure Collide (Part 4) A pile of chicken nuggets isolated onImage by James Palinsad from   BY-SA 2.0,  Text: A pile of chicken nuggets isolated on black color background This is Part 4 of a four-part series from guest co…

Building resilient legal researchers in the age of AI. Part 4 of a four-part series on how source blindness and source erasure threaten the core understanding of text-specific authority—and what legal education can do about it. ripslawlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/12/08/g...

The Courtroom Tech Maze No One Asked For - Above the Law Court restrictions can stifle curiosity about technology and negatively impact adoption rates.

Struggling to track local court tech rules and orders? You're not alone. abovethelaw.com/2025/12/the-...

Meet CourtListener: Your New Case Law Power Tool - HeinOnline Blog HeinOnline now integrates CourtListener for faster, smarter case law research with access millions of decisions, advanced tools, and more.

Case law now fully integrated into @heinonline.bsky.social via @free.law's CourtListener home.heinonline.org/blog/2025/12...