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Recent Bluessky Posts- How lawyers help in the transnational effort to fight climate change: Caroline M. Bradley, Sharing Law: Climate Finance Contracting, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... August 4, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Native Peoples Law: Bethany Berger, Native Citizenship through a Different Lens, JOTWELL (August 4, 2026) (reviewing Lila Teeters Knolle, Indians Now Taxed: Citizenship and Taxation in Settler-Colonial South Dakota, 44 J. Am. Ethnic History 44 (2025)), lex.jotwell.com/native-citiz.... August 4, 2026 Jotwell
- Gotta keep up with the times.... August 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Heck of a lot of truth in this cartoon illustrating new-to-me Brandolini’s law en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandol... (via @garymarcus.bsky.social in garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-critic...). Although TBH it sounds like something @mnemonic.bsky.social would have said... August 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Yes indeed, cf. Identity Cards and Identity Romanticism — ssrn.com/abstract=130... and The Uneasy Case for National ID Cards as a Means to Enhance Privacy papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... August 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
I just wish I could use regular expressions to search Lexis or WestLaw!
We had a LoisLaw rep in last week and I told him that he could further distinguish the LoisLaw service by allowing searching via regular expressions. His eyes glazed over and he said that he’d look into it. Sigh.
The latest edition of my Learning Perl book has a greatly expanded tutorial on regular expressions. Check it out!