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by Michael Froomkin
Laurie Silvers & Mitchell Rubenstein Distinguished Professor of Law
University of Miami School of Law
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Recent Bluessky Posts- Jotwell Librianship: Kristina Niedringhaus, Can your AI Think Like a Lawyer?, JOTWELL (April 7, 2026) (reviewing Lee F. Peoples, Artificial Intelligence and Legal Analysis: Implications for Legal Education and the Profession/em>, 117 Law Lib. J. 52 (2025).), lex.jotwell.com/can-your-ai-.... April 7, 2026 Jotwell
- Now even more urgent than when I wrote it last week: presswatchers.org/2026/04/are-... Journalists should be asking: April 6, 2026 Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News
- Jotwell LegalPro: Leah Litman, Lady Whistledown…and the Legal Academy?, JOTWELL (April 6, 2026) (reviewing Maybell Romero, Gossip, 115 Geo. L. J. __ (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN (Feb. 1, 2026)), legalpro.jotwell.com/lady-whistle.... April 6, 2026 Jotwell
- Probably not PC but I laughed. April 5, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Alas there is no Nobel Prize for Culinary Science, and I don't think this qualifies for the prize in Physiology or Medicine. www.wired.com/story/scient... April 4, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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Jotwell- Bordering on Indifference: The Moral Work of Immigration Enforcement April 8, 2026 Maartje van der Woude
- Can your AI Think Like a Lawyer? April 7, 2026 Kristina Niedringhaus
- Lady Whistledown…and the Legal Academy? April 6, 2026 Leah Litman
- Modern Analytical Jurisprudence April 3, 2026 Sean Coyle
- Dynamic Inventorship April 2, 2026 Laura Pedraza-Fariña
- A Proposal for a 529 End-of-Life Plan for Death Care Expenses April 1, 2026 Michael Yu
Blenderlaw- eu commissioner didier reynders to visit miamilaw february 23, 2023 February 8, 2023
- a ukrainian student at miami law in her own words June 3, 2022
- canefunder for ukrainian students April 15, 2022
- george bermann on international arbitration and eu law February 25, 2022
- peter lederer August 10, 2021
- comments on carbon border tax proposals July 30, 2021

Listen, Mr Iguana, you have to cover your nose and mouth with that bandana. That’s both for COVID-19 protection… and armed robbery of financial institutions.
(How ironic that a year ago, walking into a bank with a mask on would get multiple panic buttons pressed… and now, walking into a bank WITHOUT a mask on would get multiple panic buttons pressed.)