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Immigration tech. Startups helping potential immigrants with visa applications

Immigration tech. Startups helping potential immigrants with visa applications

Legal system in the USA: the Supreme Court and the Circuit Courts of Appeals

Legal system in the USA: the Supreme Court and the Circuit Courts of Appeals

Patents and Drug Research - Pharma industry

Patents and Drug Research - Pharma industry

Decriminalization of drugs in Oregon - a case study of legalization

Decriminalization of drugs in Oregon - a case study of legalization

Google - legal issues

Google - legal issues

Legal Case: DOJ’s adtech suit against Google

Legal Case: DOJ’s adtech suit against Google

Big lawsuits vs. Tech companies - legal challenges vs. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, more...

Big lawsuits vs. Tech companies - legal challenges vs. Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, more...

NCAA College Sports - recruiting and NIL - name, image, likeness issues

College Sports - recruiting and NIL - name, image, likeness

Public vs. Private Markets and the role of Government - Political Divisions in the USA

Public vs. Private Markets and the role of Government - Political Divisions in the USA

Crypto Blockchain - Regulation, Legal issues and Risk

Crypto Blockchain - Regulation, Legal issues and Risk

Classical liberalism, freedom and Democracy

Classical liberalism, freedom and Democracy

Blockchain DAO’s - Decentralized autonomous organizations - examples

Blockchain DAO’s - Decentralized autonomous organizations - examples

AI, Surveillance and Privacy - regulation, policy, guardrails

AI, Surveillance and Privacy - regulation, policy, guardrails

History of Democracy, Dictatorships and Authoritarian Regimes

History of Democracy, Dictatorships and Authoritarian Regimes

Casino business - Betting and Gambling

Casino business - Betting and Gambling

Elections and Democracy: Two-party System vs. Proportional representation

Elections and Democracy: Two-party System vs. Proportional representation

Startup Mechanics - Incorporation, Tax, Legal issues - tools, resources, websites

A collection of articles about Startup Mechanics - Incorporation, Tax, Legal issues for Startups:...

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Article

Australia wants to lead the big tech crackdown

It is more likely to be an example of how not to go about banning social media | Asia (2024)


Article

Migrun wants to simplify the process of immigrating to a new country | TechCrunch

MigRun -- a member of the Startup Battlefield 200 at TC Disrupt 2023 -- is a platform offering guides and AI-powered assistance to help people immi... (2024)


Article

Alma co-founder had such a bad immigration experience she founded a legal AI startup to fix it | TechCrunch

Alma aims to simplify the visa process for technologists, founders and researchers by providing personal legal advisors. (2024)


Article

Epic Games' Tim Sweeney calls out Apple's 'bitter griping' after its EU fine over anticompetitive practices | TechCrunch

"Denial is a river that flows through Cupertino!," said Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a notorious Apple critic who also sued the tech giant for (2024)


Article

EB-5 visa program: The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam | The New Yorker

A federal program promised to bring foreign investment to remote parts of the country. It soon became rife with fraud. Sheelah Kolhatkar reports. ... (2024)


Article

To save the Amazon, Lula must work out who owns it

The fight against deforestation is going better. But it needs cash, cops—and a better property register | The Americas (2023)


Article

A MAGA court in New Orleans is shaping the Supreme Court’s agenda 

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals makes SCOTUS look moderate by comparison, and is shaping its agenda | United States (2023)


Article

Facts About Fentanyl | Song for Charlie

Fentanyl is nearly always described with the following three words: Powerful. Synthetic. Opioid. We break down facts about fentanyl to help you sta... (2023)


Article

America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects

American medicine. A bitter pricing pill. A lot to cut drug prices is changing how pharma firms make medicines. It is already changing how pharm... (2023)


Article

Artificial intelligence in the law; Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law

Even if it doesn’t replace lawyers en masse | Business According to a recent report from Goldman Sachs, a bank, 44% of legal tasks could be perf... (2023)


Article

Oregon botches the decriminalisation of drugs | The Economist

It failed to prepare the ground | Leaders Decriminalizing drugs: lessons from Oregon. States contemplating drug decriminalization need to prepar... (2023)


Article

AI and Law: AI might not steal your job, but it could change it | MIT Technology Review

AI is already being used in the legal field. Is it really ready to be a lawyer? (2023)


Article

Adobe promises artists will be compensated fairly with new generative AI product, but is fuzzy on details | TechCrunch

When Adobe released its generative AI product today, the company promised that artists whose work is being used will be compensated fairly. (2023)


Article

Should tech platforms be liable for the content they carry? | The Economist

America’s Supreme Court grapples with their fiercely contested “Section 230” immunity | United States (2023)


Article

Europe Prepares to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet | WIRED

The Digital Markets Act will force Big Tech platforms to break open their walled gardens in 2023, says the EU’s new ambassador to Silicon Valley. (2022)


Article

The Supreme Court’s new Section 230 case could literally break the internet - Vox

Gonzalez v. Google is a high-stakes case about what we actually see when we go online. (2022)


Article

After George Floyd’s murder, police built a secretive surveillance machine that lives on | MIT Technology Review

An investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals a sprawling, technologically sophisticated system in Minnesota designed for closely monitoring pr... (2022)


Article

Could the Internet Archive Go Out Like Napster?

Many fear a lawsuit from early in the pandemic could destroy the Internet Archive. Here’s what’s really going on. fears that the vagaries of th... (2022)


Article

Twitter gets its hands dirty - by Casey Newton - Platformer

Two years after closing its PAC, the company has quietly begun giving away money again — starting with the Republican Attorneys General Association (2022)


Article

DAO Entity Matrix | Paradigm

This interactive resource is a starting point for founders and their legal counsel to better inform them about issues as they consider potential le... (2022)


Article

How to pick a DAO legal entity - a16z crypto

The growth of DAOs raise legal, tax, and operations questions, so we created a 4-step guide to help web3 builders choose a DAO legal entity. (2022)


Article

Ideas Want to be Shared - Kevin Kelly

I have contrarian ideas on intellectual property. I've come to think that the natural home of ideas is in the commons, that they should not be "own... (2022)


Article

Open source security scanning platform Snyk raises $300M | VentureBeat

Open source security scanning platform Snyk, used by developers at companies such as Google and Salesforce, has raised $300 million. The problem... (2021)


Article

Law school applicants surge 13%, biggest increase since dot-com bubble | Reuters

This was the year everyone wanted to go to law school. (2021)


Article

Australian court finds AI systems can be recognised under patent law | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian

Federal court judge says allowing artificial intelligence systems, as well as humans, to be inventors is ‘consistent with promoting innovation’ (2021)


Article

15 Universities Have Formed A Company That Looks A Lot Like A Patent Troll | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Imagine this: a limited liability company (LLC) is formed, for the sole purpose of acquiring patents, including what are likely to be low-quality p... (2021)


Article

Supreme Court revives LinkedIn case to protect user data from web scrapers – TechCrunch

The case could have broad ramifications for internet researchers and archivists. (2021)


Article

Pharmaceuticals and innovation. Less buck for the bang. Are drug patents worth it?

Politicians are attacking IP protection, but shareholders are Big Pharma’s bigger headache | Business (2021)


Article

Musical Plagiarism - Why American songwriters are suing each other | The Economist

The case against Childish Gambino is the latest in a run of copyright claims | Business (2021)


Article

Corporate Tax Dodging. End the Contortions | The Economist

The answer lies in reducing incentives to shift profits to havens | Leaders Time to fix the way governments tax multinational companies (2021)


Video

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)


Video

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)


Video

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)


Video

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)


Video

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)


Video

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)


Video

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)


Video

Should there be curbs on free speech? | The Economist

Free speech is at the heart of a healthy democracy, but in recent years it has come under attack. Controversial views are being silenced to protect... (2018)


Video

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)


Video

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)


Video

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)


Video

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)


Video

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)


Video

Gerrymandering: How drawing jagged lines can impact an election - Christina Greer

TED ed: "District lines, and the groups of voters within them, may seem arbitrary, but a lot of thought (and political bickering) is put into thes... (2017)


Video

Gerrymandering: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

LastWeekTonight, 2017: "Lawmakers often reshape voting districts to shift the balance of political power. That's unfair to voters, even those of us... (2017)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

The Supreme Court may disenfranchise you now - Vox | Today Explained Podcast

Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. Pandemic or not, the highest court in the land won’t extend Wisconsin’s deadline for m... (2020)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

Supreme Court - Amy Coney Barrett’s originalism - Vox | Podcast

Listen to this episode from Today, Explained on Spotify. The judge isn’t saying much in her confirmation hearing, but Vox’s Ian Millhiser explains ... (2020)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

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

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)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

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)


Podcast

Supreme Court Leaves 'Wild West' Of Partisan Gerrymandering In Place — For Now : NPR (2018)

The court on Monday, in twin partisan gerrymandering cases from Wisconsin and Maryland, said either that challengers didn't have standing or didn't... (2018)


Podcast

Will Work For No Benefits: The Challenges Of Being In The New Contract Workforce | NPR

A new NPR/Marist poll shows that more than half of contract workers don't get employee benefits. "We really don't have much of a social safety net,... (2018)


Book

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)


Website

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)


Website

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)


Website

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)


Website

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)


Website

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)


Website

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)


Website

Start a Company | Gust

Prepare for investment and growth with easy incorporation and powerful legal and financial tools. (2019)


Website

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)


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