After a short hiatus, I'm teaching torts again at IUMaurerLaw this Fall. I returned to the student evals from the last course & found this absolute gem. Probably my favorite eval ever: "Blast off with Asaf Lubin on another adventure to the wacky & wonderful world of torts."

Great work here from a great set of people. Really worth the read.

It’s been a joy working as the Co-Chair of the Junior Int’l Law Scholars Association (JILSA). While my tenure runs until the end of 2024—including a JILSA meeting at IUMaurerLaw in Dec—I already know growing the org alongside Melissa Stewart would be the thing I’m proudest of!

Both in my role as Incoming-Chair of AALS Internet and Computer Law Section & as a member of the Organizing Committee of the Law & Tech Workshop, I invite everyone to submit papers for the 2024 Fall Season & the special works-in-progress session in San Francisco in January!

If you, like me, are interested in digital rights protection in armed conflict, you should read ISMLLW’s Military Law & Law of War Review #MLLWR’s new issue which includes an excellent symposium on biometrics based on a NATO CCDCOE convening on the subject! elgaronline.com/view/journals/…

Significant development today at the UN with the adoption of the cybercrime convention. Next is a vote at the UNGA & then forty ratifications needed before it enters into force. The convention is filled with textual levers that could be pulled to advance abusive surveillance.

Applications to present at the Law and Technology Workshop are due this Friday!

Nothing to see here.. just a IUMaurerLaw professor dressed in a taco costume teaching 1L torts students about legal line-drawing, interpretation, and the function of precedent using the tormenting question of whether a taco is a sandwich.

Just so we’re clear: suing a cybersecurity researcher under theories of negligence & conversion for revealing the true scope & magnitude of a data breach has everything to do with freedom of speech and whistleblowing, despite what the city’s attorney tries to argue here.

For a second year in a row the ASIL International Law & Technology Interest Group is sponsoring a scholarship prize to be awarded in April 2025 as part of the ASIL annual meeting. Make sure to submit your international law and tech monographs, book chapters, and articles for consideration!

If you are not familiar with ElizaWatt’s book on state sponsored cyber surveillance, it is definitely worth the read!

On Friday 3 PM ET, the Law and Tech Workshop will be discussing Bryan H. Choi (The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law) "Tainted Source Code," with Chinny Sharma (Fordham Law) as the discussant. To sign up for the workshop, email [email protected]. More information at lawtechworkshop.org.