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MST in Brazil: If You Don’t Use Your Land, These Marxists May Take It - The New York Times
The Landless Workers Movement organizes Brazil’s poor to take land from the rich. It is perhaps the largest — and most polarizing — social movement... (2023)
Dirty Data, Bad Predictions: How Civil Rights Violations Impact Police Data, Predictive Policing Systems, and Justice
by Rashida Richardson, Jason Schultz, Kate Crawford :: SSRN In a research paper titled “Dirty Data, Bad Predictions,” lead author Rashida Richa... (2020)
Stop the EARN IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption | EFF Action Center
The House and Senate are both pushing forward with the so-called “EARN IT” Act, a bill that will undermine encryption and free speech online. Attor... (2020)
The lethal history of rubber bullets—and why they should never be used on peaceful protesters
Rubber bullets fired on protesters can kill. So why are we using them? (2020)
Lavish Parties, Greedy Pols and Panic Rooms: How the ‘Apple of Pot’ Collapsed
MedMen was the country’s hottest pot startup—until it flamed out. Its fall has exposed the gap between “green rush” hype and the realities of a tro... (2020)
Big Tech Has Crushed the News Business. That’s About to Change. - The New York Times
News organizations have long hoped that tech platforms would pay them for news. Now regulators abroad are moving to make that happen. (2020)
An Algorithm That Grants Freedom, or Takes It Away - New York Times (2020)
Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more hum... (2020)
IBM, Marriott and Mickey Mouse Take On Tech’s Favorite Law - The New York Times
A motley group of powerful companies have their knives out for Section 230, which shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by users. (2020)
Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker - Bloomberg
Health-Records Company Pushed Opioids to Doctors in Secret Deal With Drugmaker Practice Fusion ensured that addictive drugs were on the menu ... (2020)
Facebook to Pay $550 Million to Settle Facial Recognition Suit - The New York Times
It was another black mark on the privacy record of the social network, which also reported its quarterly earnings. “ Facebook said on Wednesday ... (2020)
Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair | U.S. PIRG
Delegates of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, which represents 58,000 member families, voted 176-1 to formally endorse the right of its constituents to re... (2019)
California Passes Landmark Bill to Remake Gig Economy - The New York Times
With the bill’s passage, California’s ride-hailing drivers, food-delivery couriers, janitors and others are set to be reclassified as employees and... (2019)
Who to Sue When a Robot Loses Your Fortune - Bloomberg
The first known case of humans going to court over investment losses triggered by autonomous machines will test the limits of liability. Robots ... (2019)
Opinion | Bribes to Get Into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New? - The New York Times
A new college admissions scandal is just the latest proof of a grossly uneven playing field. (2019)
F.T.C. Hits Musical.ly With Record Fine for Child Privacy Violation - The New York Times
The agency found many users of the app, now known as TikTok, were under 13 and revealed sensitive personal information without their parents’ permi... (2019)
The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare - Fast Company
Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger? A closer look reveals a secret, multimillion-dollar battle to get you into bed. (2017)
How Juul, founded on a life-saving mission, became the most embattled startup of 2018 - Fast Company
E-cigarette startup Juul Labs is valued at more than $16 billion. It’s also hooking teens on nicotine and drawing scrutiny from the FDA. Can the co... (2018)
The Big Legal Issue Blockchain Developers Rarely Discuss - CoinDesk
If blockchain projects seek adoption by enterprises, their open-source license will have a material impact on the rate of adoption, say legal experts. (2018)
Become a B Corporation: Steps for Startups (Pending B Corporation Status)
B Corp Certification is based on the verified practices and policies of a company over the past year—not what it aspires to do in the future. That ... (2018)
How to Become a Benefit Corporation | Benefit Corporation
New companies can incorporate as a benefit corporation in any state where legislation has been passed. Existing companies can elect to become a ben... (2018)
Public Benefit Corporations || Clerky - Legal Concepts for Founders
Designed to help founders build a solid foundation of the legal knowledge they need. We've taken our deep legal expertise and distilled it into a c... (2018)
The multibillion-dollar war over chocolate design
A fight in EU courts over KitKat bars raises questions about how much a product’s shape defines its brand. (2018)
Asian-Americans Face Multiple Fronts in Battle Over Affirmative Action - The New York Times
Asian-Americans have been among the most vocal opponents of affirmative action. But national surveys show that most favor it. (2018)
Online Retailers Can Be Forced to Collect Tax, High Court Rules - Bloomberg
The U.S. Supreme Court freed states and local governments to start collecting billions of dollars in new sales taxes from online retailers, overtur... (2018)
Opinion | The Men Who Terrorize Rio - The New York Times
Ruthless mafia-like militias have taken over much of the Brazilian city, killing whomever they want, from City Council members to bird thieves. (2018)
Brazil’s Crime Costs Double in Two Decades to More Than $75 Billion - Bloomberg
Crime now costs Latin America’s largest economy over $75 billion a year, double the amount of two decades prior, and efforts to combat its spread h... (2018)
The Net Neutrality Repeal Is Official. Here’s How That Could Affect You. - The New York Times
Net Neutrality rules that required internet service providers to offer equal access to all web content are no longer in effect as of Monday. (2018)
GDPR and Blockchain: Is the New EU Data Protection Regulation a Threat or an Incentive?
New European data protection regulation to trigger even more blockchain innovation. (2018)
The Next Privacy Battle in Europe Is Over This New Law - The New York Times
The tech industry is fighting a pending measure that’s even stricter than the recently enacted G.D.P.R. It’s called the ePrivacy Regulation. (2018)
Chinese Universities Are Pursuing Blockchain Patents - CoinDesk
Universities in China are joining the country's private sector in an effort to patent blockchain solutions, new filings reveal. (2018)
How London became the dirty money capital of the world | FT Film
Russian oligarchs and companies have been investing in London for two decades, encouraged by British politicians of all stripes, but critics say th... (2024)
The TRUTH about B Corporations
The legendary B Corp Certification claims to be one of the best ways to certify and legitimize a company's intentions. We're wondering... Can we tr... (2023)
The law that broke US immigration - Vox
Why the US has so many undocumented immigrants. Immigration looked very different before 1996, when President Bi... (2022)
Smithsonian Open Access: 2.8 Million Images Are Yours to Use
People everywhere can now download, remix and share Smithsonian Open Access content for any purpose, for free, from portraits of historic Americans... (2020)
Joe Rogan Experience #1368 - Edward Snowden
Edward Snowden is an American whistleblower who copied and leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 when he w... (2019)
YC - Legal and Accounting Basics for Startups (Kirsty Nathoo, Carolynn Levy) - Lecture 18
How to Start a Startup Published on Nov 20, 2014 There's a lot that goes behind the scenes in running a startup. Getting the legal, finance (eq... (2018)
Startup Legal Mechanics || YC - Carolynn Levy And Panel (Jon Levy, Jason Kwon)
YC Partners Carolynn Levy, Jon Levy, and YC General Counsel Jason Kwon discuss legal mechanics for startups, in addition to common mistakes and pro... (2018)
Theft! A History of Music
Duke University School of Law Published on Mar 10, 2017 A graphic novel covering 2000 years of musical borrowing and regulation, from Plato to ... (2018)
What if we ended the injustice of bail? | Robin Steinberg - TED
On any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are locked up in jail simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail. Th... (2018)
Sound Smart: Dred Scott Case | History
Historian Matthew Pinsker presents a quick rundown of the story of Dred Scott, a slave who sued for his freedom, leading to one of the Supreme Cour... (2018)
The Dred Scott Case
Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark Supreme Court case decided in 1857, in which the court held that African Americans could not be citizens of t... (2018)
Bail: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver explains why America’s bail system is better for the reality tv industry than it is for the justice system. Connect with Last Week Toni... (2018)
Immigration Courts - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
America’s dysfunctional immigration court system forces many children to appear in court alone. That’s as ridiculous in real life as it would be on... (2018)
Economic Consequences Of The Census - The Indicator from Planet Money
Listen to this episode from The Indicator from Planet Money on Spotify. The coronavirus pandemic, distrust of the government, and a surprising poli... (2020)
Greg Lukianoff: Cancel Culture, Deplatforming, Censorship & Free Speech - Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Lex Fridman Podcast on Spotify. Greg Lukianoff is a free speech advocate, first-amendment attorney, president of FIRE -... (2024)
Google advertising lawsuit: The New Vampire Squid? With Dina Srinivasan - Capitalisn't | Podcast on Spotify
In a Wall Street Journal article about Google’s Secret ‘Project Bernanke,’ Jeff Horwitz and Keach Hagey quoted Google Chief Economist Hal Varian's ... (2023)
2. Beyond NIL: Will College Sports Become a Free Market? - UnCommon Law | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from UnCommon Law on Spotify. The new era of name, image, and likeness in college sports has seen rapid change. For instance... (2022)
1. The NIL Era: Paying NCAA Athletes Is Changing Sports - UnCommon Law | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from UnCommon Law on Spotify. College sports is closing out the first year of the name, image and likeness era for athletes.... (2022)
The case for ending the filibuster - Vox
Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Even if Democrats win the White House, take the Senate, and hold the House, most of their ... (2020)
Babbage: Apple's Epic battle - The Economist | Podcast
Babbage from Economist Radio on Spotify. This week a judge heard the first arguments in an antitrust case that could reshape the software ecosy... (2020)
Podcast - Section 230 CDA: Content Moderation, Free Speech, the Internet - Andreessen Horowitz
Listen to this episode from 16 Minutes News by a16z on Spotify. In this special "3x" episode of our news show -- where we cover the he... (2020)
YouTube and the End of Friction | Exponent
Ben and James discuss the question of YouTube, why it’s similar and different from Facebook, and why engagement is both alluring and a potential pr... (2019)
YC podcast #97 - David Hua and Vincent Ning, an episode from Y Combinator on Spotify
David Hua is CEO and cofounder of Meadow. Meadow makes retail and delivery software for dispensaries. They were part of the Winter 2015 batch. You ... (2018)
Right to Roam - Walking across Private Land || 99% Invisible
When 99% Invisible producer Katie Mingle’s father Jim Mingle retired, he began walking —a lot. He’d always been a walker, but with more time, he to... (2018)
This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back by Ken Ilgunas
This Land Is Our Land has 47 ratings and 11 reviews. Letitia said: A thoughtful and informative argument for the idea that Americans should have th... (2018)
Blockchain and the Law — Primavera De Filippi, Aaron Wright | Harvard University Press
How does Bitcoin mine money from 1s and 0s? Through blockchain, a tool for creating secure, decentralized peer-to-peer applications. The technology... (2018)
Boundless - A Modern Immigration Company
Get the expertise of an immigration lawyer without the price tag. Apply for your green card or fiancé visa online with Boundless. (2024)
Gusto - Payroll and benefits
Set your business up with modern payroll, benefits, and HR. Gusto also manages third party benefits (health, dental, vision) Our plans were b... (2021)
Harvey | Generative AI for Elite Law Firms
AI. Harvey builds custom large language models LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jur... (2023)
AngelList Stack | Create a fundraising-ready startup
Create a fundraising-ready startup. Everything from incorporation, banking, and equity management tools in a single place. (2021)
Bench Accounting - Online Bookkeeping
Online Bookkeeping Services for Your Small Business Bench is America’s largest professional bookkeeping service for small businesses. Start a f... (2021)
Clerky | The easiest way for startups to get legal paperwork done safely.
We're 100% focused on helping startups get legal paperwork done safely, going far beyond simply providing forms. Get your legal paperwork done with... (2019)
Start a Company | Gust
Prepare for investment and growth with easy incorporation and powerful legal and financial tools. (2019)
Measure What Matters Most | B Impact Assessment
“The B Impact Assessment added a new twist to our initiatives - it helped us understand where we are in comparison to other companies.” (2018)