Trump administration urges Supreme Court to allow it to revoke protected status for Haitian nationals
The Trump administration on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to pause a ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that barred the government from ending a program that allows […]The postTrump administration urges Supreme Court to allow it to...
The 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause does not codify English principles of subjectship
Critics and supporters of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship often focus on the order’s barring of automatic citizenship to children born to individuals unlawfully present in the […]The postThe 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause does not codify English...
The First Amendment’s application to public university students: an explainer
Free speech on university campuses is a perennially hot topic, perhaps most recently reflected in protests about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at places like Ball State University, Harvard, and Columbia. This […]The postThe First Amendment’s application to public university students: an...
Abandoning the separation of powers in times of war
Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […]The postAbandoning the separation of powers in times of...
SCOTUStoday for Wednesday, March 11
You’ve likely heard of AI bots being used improperly by lawyers, but what about lawsuits over AI bots practicing law without a license? Reuters reported on one such case last […]The postSCOTUStoday for Wednesday, March 11appeared first onSCOTUSblog.
Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov’t probes into sanctioned crypto transfers
Binance’s lawsuit accusing WSJ of defamation unlikely to stall government probes.
What crackdown? Trump's EPA enforcement claims don't pass sniff test.
75% of the criminal cases closed last fiscal year originated before Trump took office.
AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood put out the worst song I’ve ever heard
This song is an AI actor's rallying cry to other AI actors, urging them to keep going despite the naysayers who doubt their humanity. Literally no one can relate to this.
Zendesk acquires agentic customer service startup Forethought
Forethought was years ahead of its time and the 2018 winner of TechCrunch Battlefield.
Replit snags $9B valuation 6 months after hitting $3B
Replit raised a new $400 million round and said it hopes to have $1B in ARR by year's end.
WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net
WordPress’s new browser-based service lets users create private sites without hosting or signing up, turning the platform into a personal workspace for writing, research, and AI tools.
Canopii looks to succeed where past indoor farms have not
Canopii's robotic farms can autonomously grow 40,000 pounds of herbs and leafy greens a year while being the size of a basketball court.
Blown Chances
At some point, less than two decades after the United States Supreme Court found racial segregation in the public schools to be unconstitutional, the...The postBlown Chancesappeared first onHarvard Law Review.
United States v. Johnson
Drug detection dogs are critical tools in the fight against drug trafficking. However, law enforcement canines are imperfect: They sometimes incorrectly alert when performing...The post<em>United States v. Johnson</em>appeared first onHarvard Law Review.
Fulton v. Fulton County Board of Commissioners
“[W]here there is a legal right, there is also a legal remedy . . . .” Although Blackstone’s maxim has led to efforts to redress constitutional violations, courts...The post<em>Fulton v. Fulton County Board of Commissioners</em>appeared first onHarvard Law Review.
Sun Valley Orchards, LLCv. United States Department of Labor
In SEC v. Jarkesy, the Supreme Court failed to fully clarify the “unquestionably muddy” relationship between Article III and the Seventh Amendment. Yet it...The post<em>Sun Valley Orchards, LLC<br>v. United States Department of Labor</em>appeared first onHarvard Law Review.
When All Files Count the Same: The Problem of Undifferentiated Images in Child Pornography Sentencing
Our society generally agrees that possessing, producing, and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is morally reprehensible. This societal judgment is represented in sentencing...The postWhen All Files Count the Same: The Problem of Undifferentiated Images in Child Pornography Sentencingappeared first...
What is a Tort?
What is a tort, and what is tort law for? On one leading scholarly account, torts are legal liability rules that seek to promote the welfare of society at large by disincentivizing socially suboptimal behavior and distributing the costs of...
Liberty of Conscience, Political Process Theory, and Founding-Era Free Exercise
Religious freedom claimants have achieved tremendous success before the Supreme Court in recent years. Yet free exercise jurisprudence has bounced between skepticism and embrace...The postLiberty of Conscience, Political Process Theory, and Founding-Era Free Exerciseappeared first onHarvard Law Review.
Bad Boy Jurisprudence
In 2009, President Barack Obama set off a “radioactive” debate when he told the White House Press Corps that he would seek a judge...The postBad Boy Jurisprudenceappeared first onHarvard Law Review.
Separating the Powers in the Administrative State: Article I
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States . . . . — U.S. Const. art. I, § 1 Typically, when Congress...The postSeparating the Powers in the Administrative State: Article Iappeared first onHarvard...
Making the Rules of the Rules of the Game: The Use, Misuse, and Disuse of the Rulemaking Grant in the Act of 1842
Introduction On August 23, 1842, Congress quietly and quickly conferred a broad grant of rulemaking authority on the Supreme Court. The Act of Aug....The postMaking the Rules of the Rules of the Game: The Use, Misuse, and Disuse of the...
PRECEPT: Planning Resilience via Experience, Context Engineering & Probing Trajectories A Unified Framework for Test-Time Adaptation with Compositional Rule Learning and Pareto-Guided Prompt Evolution
arXiv:2603.09641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents that store knowledge as natural language suffer steep retrieval degradation as condition count grows, often struggle to compose learned rules reliably, and typically lack explicit mechanisms to detect stale or adversarial knowledge. We...
MASEval: Extending Multi-Agent Evaluation from Models to Systems
arXiv:2603.08835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid adoption of LLM-based agentic systems has produced a rich ecosystem of frameworks (smolagents, LangGraph, AutoGen, CAMEL, LlamaIndex, i.a.). Yet existing benchmarks are model-centric: they fix the agentic setup and do not compare other...
Curveball Steering: The Right Direction To Steer Isn't Always Linear
arXiv:2603.09313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Activation steering is a widely used approach for controlling large language model (LLM) behavior by intervening on internal representations. Existing methods largely rely on the Linear Representation Hypothesis, assuming behavioral attributes can be manipulated using...
Evaluate-as-Action: Self-Evaluated Process Rewards for Retrieval-Augmented Agents
arXiv:2603.09203v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented agents can query external evidence, yet their reliability in multi-step reasoning remains limited: noisy retrieval may derail multi-hop question answering, while outcome-only reinforcement learning provides credit signals that are too coarse to optimize intermediate...
One Language, Two Scripts: Probing Script-Invariance in LLM Concept Representations
arXiv:2603.08869v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Do the features learned by Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) represent abstract meaning, or are they tied to how text is written? We investigate this question using Serbian digraphia as a controlled testbed: Serbian is written interchangeably...
Logos: An evolvable reasoning engine for rational molecular design
arXiv:2603.09268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The discovery and design of functional molecules remain central challenges across chemistry,biology, and materials science. While recent advances in machine learning have accelerated molecular property prediction and candidate generation, existing models tend to excel either...
MultiGraSCCo: A Multilingual Anonymization Benchmark with Annotations of Personal Identifiers
arXiv:2603.08879v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accessing sensitive patient data for machine learning is challenging due to privacy concerns. Datasets with annotations of personally identifiable information are crucial for developing and testing anonymization systems to enable safe data sharing that complies...
Robust Regularized Policy Iteration under Transition Uncertainty
arXiv:2603.09344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning (RL) enables data-efficient and safe policy learning without online exploration, but its performance often degrades under distribution shift. The learned policy may visit out-of-distribution state-action pairs where value estimates and learned dynamics...