Rebecca Crootof
@crootof.bsky.social
I tend to write about #TechLaw, war (especially #WarTorts), and bizarre torts hypos. Nancy Litchfield Hicks Professor of Law at University of Richmond School of Law; recently the ELSI Visiting Scholar at DARPA.
Chapter 5: We lean heavily on @lessig.bsky.social's work to explore the distinctions between laws, norms, markets and architecture as regulatory modalities; we then explore how architectural regulation enables perfect enforcement and misdirected responsibility.
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Technology Law Chapter 5: Regulatory Modalities
Based on years of experience teaching the subject, we have produced a first draft of a “Technology Law” coursebook. It teases out fundamental concepts, introduc
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November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Chapter 5: We lean heavily on @lessig.bsky.social's work to explore the distinctions between laws, norms, markets and architecture as regulatory modalities; we then explore how architectural regulation enables perfect enforcement and misdirected responsibility.
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Chapter 4: Solutionists and Luddites and Determinists, oh my! This chapter surveys various perspectives on the relationship between law and technology and considers how different stances can be used rhetorically to advance different regulatory aims.
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Technology Law Chapter 4: Perspectives
<span>Based on years of experience teaching the subject, we have produced a first draft of a “Technology Law” coursebook. It teases out fundamental concepts, in
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October 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Chapter 4: Solutionists and Luddites and Determinists, oh my! This chapter surveys various perspectives on the relationship between law and technology and considers how different stances can be used rhetorically to advance different regulatory aims.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Chapter 3 discusses the three tech-fostered social impacts (artifacts, activities, actors), provides suggestions for identifying legally influential ones (heavily informed by my DARPA work), and notes the regulatory impact of difference-in-degree/kind debates.
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Technology Law Chapter 3: Social Impacts
<span>Based on years of experience teaching the subject, we have produced a first draft of a “Technology Law” coursebook. It teases out fundamental concepts, in
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October 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Chapter 3 discusses the three tech-fostered social impacts (artifacts, activities, actors), provides suggestions for identifying legally influential ones (heavily informed by my DARPA work), and notes the regulatory impact of difference-in-degree/kind debates.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The prior chapter introduced our methodology for resolving techlaw uncertainties; Chapter 2 delineates what techlaw uncertainties actually are. In brief, they many manifest as application uncertainties, normative uncertainties, and institutional uncertainties.
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Technology Law Chapter 2: Legal Uncertainties
<p>Based on years of experience teaching the subject, we have produced a first draft of a “Technology Law” coursebook. It teases out fundamental concepts, intro
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September 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The prior chapter introduced our methodology for resolving techlaw uncertainties; Chapter 2 delineates what techlaw uncertainties actually are. In brief, they many manifest as application uncertainties, normative uncertainties, and institutional uncertainties.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Preordered, and can't wait to read!
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Preordered, and can't wait to read!
I'm particularly struck by Calo's celebration of what Julie Cohen terms law's "relentless pragmatism," which he argues is distinctive to law and may inform other disciplines. (This captures why I pursued a law degree instead of other postgrad options.)
As Calo summarizes, "Law is a useful science."
As Calo summarizes, "Law is a useful science."
September 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I'm particularly struck by Calo's celebration of what Julie Cohen terms law's "relentless pragmatism," which he argues is distinctive to law and may inform other disciplines. (This captures why I pursued a law degree instead of other postgrad options.)
As Calo summarizes, "Law is a useful science."
As Calo summarizes, "Law is a useful science."