Michael Madison
@michaelmadison.bsky.social
Knowledge Commons researcher. Future Law advocate. Football supporter. Silicon Valley ex-pat. "Everything In Between" on Substack. Next up: "Your Leadership Podcast." Lost on Jeopardy!. Looking around corners. By day, I'm a law professor.
New in knowledge commons research: "Is Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Governable? Towards Machine Sovereignty and Human Symbiosis" from Botao "Amber" Hu, Helena Rong, and Janna Tay. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Is Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Governable? Towards Machine Sovereignty and Human Symbiosis
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The rise of decentralized artificial intelligence (DeAI) represents a transformative shift in AI development, leveraging blockchain and distributed ledge
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February 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
New in knowledge commons research: "Is Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Governable? Towards Machine Sovereignty and Human Symbiosis" from Botao "Amber" Hu, Helena Rong, and Janna Tay. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Me, new on Substack: "Disappointed: What do we talk about when we talk about the challenges facing higher education." I use the recent Penn panel on the future of American universities as a jumping off point. More to come. profmadison.substack.com/p/disappointed
Disappointed
What do we talk about when we talk about the challenges facing higher education
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February 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Me, new on Substack: "Disappointed: What do we talk about when we talk about the challenges facing higher education." I use the recent Penn panel on the future of American universities as a jumping off point. More to come. profmadison.substack.com/p/disappointed
Today in knowledge commons research: "Unpacking Open Source Bio," a collection of mini-case studies of knowledge commons from the inimitable @jcontreras.bsky.social. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Unpacking Open Source Bio
For at least a quarter of a century, life science researchers around the world have undertaken initiatives loosely based on principles, goals, and institutional
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February 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today in knowledge commons research: "Unpacking Open Source Bio," a collection of mini-case studies of knowledge commons from the inimitable @jcontreras.bsky.social. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Social media day, round 2: On Substack, I have another in my weekly series of essays about the future of universities. "A Pixar Interlude: What planet is higher education reform ... on?" profmadison.substack.com/p/a-pixar-in...
A Pixar Interlude
What planet is higher education reform ... on?
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January 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Social media day, round 2: On Substack, I have another in my weekly series of essays about the future of universities. "A Pixar Interlude: What planet is higher education reform ... on?" profmadison.substack.com/p/a-pixar-in...
It's social media day. The newest episode of "Your Leadership Podcast" with me and Kathy Edersheim is available at open.spotify.com/episode/1huU...
Does leadership begin with voice?
Your Leadership Podcast · Episode
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January 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
It's social media day. The newest episode of "Your Leadership Podcast" with me and Kathy Edersheim is available at open.spotify.com/episode/1huU...
"Things" and their attributes are the MacGuffins of property law. I'll post links to the occasional new paper. Today's excellent entry: "Personal Property Servitudes Revisited" by Daniel Klerman and Stefan Bechtold. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Things" and their attributes are the MacGuffins of property law. I'll post links to the occasional new paper. Today's excellent entry: "Personal Property Servitudes Revisited" by Daniel Klerman and Stefan Bechtold. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
While I'm at it: I'm co-hosting a new podcast, called "Your Leadership Podcast." Tasty conversational morsels delivered once every two weeks. Find it here: open.spotify.com/show/633QIpk...
Your Leadership Podcast
Podcast · Michael Madison and Kathy Edersheim · “Your Leadership Podcast” is about you and your leadership journey. Co-hosts Kathy Edersheim and Mike Madison take a conversational approach, making lea...
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January 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
While I'm at it: I'm co-hosting a new podcast, called "Your Leadership Podcast." Tasty conversational morsels delivered once every two weeks. Find it here: open.spotify.com/show/633QIpk...
Catching up on my Substack essays on the future of higher education, here's the most recent: "Choosing to Choose:
How a university decides." profmadison.substack.com/p/choosing-t...
How a university decides." profmadison.substack.com/p/choosing-t...
Choosing to Choose
How a university decides
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January 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Catching up on my Substack essays on the future of higher education, here's the most recent: "Choosing to Choose:
How a university decides." profmadison.substack.com/p/choosing-t...
How a university decides." profmadison.substack.com/p/choosing-t...
New in knowledge commons scholarship: "Access to Justice as Access to Data" by Tanina Rostain @georgetownlaw.bsky.social scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol119/...
Access to Justice as Access to Data
This Keynote Address, delivered in celebration of the launch of SCALES, discusses the importance of making local and state court data available for research on the functioning of the American civil ju...
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January 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
New in knowledge commons scholarship: "Access to Justice as Access to Data" by Tanina Rostain @georgetownlaw.bsky.social scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/nulr/vol119/...
Also new in knowledge commons scholarship: Christopher Mirasola, "Common Heritage as Public Trust: A Property Law Approach to Managing Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction" in the Southern California Law Review. southerncalifornialawreview.com/2024/10/31/c...
Common Heritage as Public Trust: A Property Law Approach to Managing Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction – Southern California Law Review
The search for rare minerals is taking us well beyond the bounds of national jurisdiction, and international law is struggling to keep up. In the 1970s states agreed that the deep seabed beyond nation...
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January 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Also new in knowledge commons scholarship: Christopher Mirasola, "Common Heritage as Public Trust: A Property Law Approach to Managing Resources Beyond National Jurisdiction" in the Southern California Law Review. southerncalifornialawreview.com/2024/10/31/c...
New in knowledge commons scholarship: Margaret (Maggie) Chon, "Relational Innovation and the Public Benefits of Copying," in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. btlj.org/wp-content/u...
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January 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
New in knowledge commons scholarship: Margaret (Maggie) Chon, "Relational Innovation and the Public Benefits of Copying," in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. btlj.org/wp-content/u...
A neat new knowledge commons project: @institutionaldatainitiative.org
December 28, 2024 at 3:39 PM
A neat new knowledge commons project: @institutionaldatainitiative.org
The gift of Pittsburgh. I am passing it along. www.pittsburghmagazine.com/pittsburgh-i...
December 25, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The gift of Pittsburgh. I am passing it along. www.pittsburghmagazine.com/pittsburgh-i...
My Substack series on the future of universities continues, with some preliminary attention to how we might get from where we are now to wherever we might want to be, at "Out of the Silos: On universities and institutional change." Find the whole thing at profmadison.substack.com/p/out-of-the...
Out of the Silos
On universities and institutional change
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December 18, 2024 at 11:40 AM
My Substack series on the future of universities continues, with some preliminary attention to how we might get from where we are now to wherever we might want to be, at "Out of the Silos: On universities and institutional change." Find the whole thing at profmadison.substack.com/p/out-of-the...
Fungi! What knowledge commons can teach. "The Failure of Commons? The Obscure Beijing Mushrooms & the Mycelial Networks of Transformation in Everyday Life" by Gladys Pak Lei Chong. journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/po...
The Failure of Commons? The Obscure Beijing Mushrooms & the Mycelial Networks of Transformation in Everyday Life
| interconnections: journal of posthumanism
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December 13, 2024 at 2:44 PM
Fungi! What knowledge commons can teach. "The Failure of Commons? The Obscure Beijing Mushrooms & the Mycelial Networks of Transformation in Everyday Life" by Gladys Pak Lei Chong. journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/po...
Knowledge commons today: "Governing Digital Public Infrastructure as a Commons," from Renata Avila, Ramya Chandrasekhar, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, and Andrew Rens. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Governing Digital Public Infrastructure as a Commons
Building upon the G20 New Delhi Leaders' Declaration commitment to improving access to digital services through digital public infrastructure (DPI), this policy
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December 12, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Knowledge commons today: "Governing Digital Public Infrastructure as a Commons," from Renata Avila, Ramya Chandrasekhar, Melanie Dulong de Rosnay, and Andrew Rens. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Every Monday, there is something new at "Everything in Between." I continue with my series about the future of universities. "The Field of the University: On flowers and friction." profmadison.substack.com/p/the-field-...
The Field of the University
On flowers and friction
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December 10, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Every Monday, there is something new at "Everything in Between." I continue with my series about the future of universities. "The Field of the University: On flowers and friction." profmadison.substack.com/p/the-field-...
Knowledge commons, casual carpooling edition. Reyko Huang, "The order of anarchy: How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory ..." The same arg about community self-governance and carpools appears in Benkler, "Sharing Nicely," from 2004. aeon.co/essays/what-...
What San Francisco carpooling tells us about anarchism | Aeon Essays
How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory and the work of the late, great James C Scott
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December 8, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Knowledge commons, casual carpooling edition. Reyko Huang, "The order of anarchy: How San Francisco’s free rides system can help us understand anarchist theory ..." The same arg about community self-governance and carpools appears in Benkler, "Sharing Nicely," from 2004. aeon.co/essays/what-...
The knowledge commons hits keep coming. "The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice," by Simon Parkin www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Fo...
The Forbidden Garden
From the award-winning author of The Island of Extraordinary Captives, the riveting, untold true story of the botanists at the world’s first seed b...
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December 8, 2024 at 6:28 PM
The knowledge commons hits keep coming. "The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice," by Simon Parkin www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Fo...
Knowledge commons in history. Shane
Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages
The importance of collective behavior in early medieval Europe
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December 7, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Knowledge commons in history. Shane
Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
Bobrycki, "The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages" press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...
This week's Substack entry at "Everything in Between": "The Tragedy of Prestige: Is there a comedy in the university?," in which I carry on my series about the past, present, and future of "the university." profmadison.substack.com/p/the-traged...
The Tragedy of Prestige
Is there a comedy in the university?
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December 3, 2024 at 8:12 PM
This week's Substack entry at "Everything in Between": "The Tragedy of Prestige: Is there a comedy in the university?," in which I carry on my series about the past, present, and future of "the university." profmadison.substack.com/p/the-traged...
Today in knowledge commons governance research.
📣 New article from me, Thomas Struett, @paufder.bsky.social & @rwg.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy, available free & #openaccess in the International Journal of Communication:
Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse
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Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse
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Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse | Struett | International Journal of Communication
Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse
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November 30, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Today in knowledge commons governance research.
Knowledge commons, today: "Proprietary Data, Open Data, Data Commons: Who Owns the Data? How to Best Reconcile Conflicting Interests in Exploiting the Value of Data and Protecting Against its Risks" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Proprietary Data, Open Data, Data Commons: Who Owns the Data?How to Best Reconcile Conflicting Interests in Exploiting the Value of Data and Protecting Against its Risks
The European data strategy aims to make the EU a leader in a data-driven world. To this aim, the EU is creating a single market for data where 1) data can flow
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November 29, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Knowledge commons, today: "Proprietary Data, Open Data, Data Commons: Who Owns the Data? How to Best Reconcile Conflicting Interests in Exploiting the Value of Data and Protecting Against its Risks" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." Happy Thanksgiving from WKRP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SXI...
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November 28, 2024 at 2:58 PM
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." Happy Thanksgiving from WKRP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SXI...
Today at "Everything in Between" on Substack: "Can You Get Anything You Want? At the university restaurant" It's a metaphor, continuing my exploring the future of higher education. profmadison.substack.com/p/can-you-ge...
https://profmadison.substack.com/p/can-you-get-anything-you-want"
November 25, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Today at "Everything in Between" on Substack: "Can You Get Anything You Want? At the university restaurant" It's a metaphor, continuing my exploring the future of higher education. profmadison.substack.com/p/can-you-ge...