Jeremy Sheff

Four cheers for MIT.

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

The Real History of Tenure If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

"Attacks on academia are fundamentally about remaking the labor practices that define higher education."

Deepa Das Acevedo, author of The War on Tenure (out now), in Time Magazine

https://cup.org/4hahkid

#HigherEd #AcademicSky #PoliSci 🗺️ 🗃️

They could have done something like this in the Trump immunity case and given a chance for the special counsel to take Trump's federal election subversion charges to trial.

Expediting cases is a choice

Looking forward to talking about the patent law side of the current disruptions in the federal executive branch at this event this evening. www.connerinn.org/event-6240328

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Amazon’s Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System — California Law Review Amazon’s dominance as a platform is widely documented. But one aspect of that dominance has not received sufficient attention—the Amazon Brand Registry’s sweeping influence on firm behavior, particula...

Thrilled that my article with @markpmckenna.bsky.social on "Amazon's Quiet Overhaul of the Trademark System" is now out in the California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social

Donna Adelson's trial for Dan Markel's murder begins.
#JusticeforDan

Just a reminder of my favorite idea for a law student note: Pick an important Supreme Court case from 5-10 years ago, and see how lower courts are interpreting it. It's helpful for practitioners and courts, and something law students can research and present effectively.

Exploits of a Mom

Maybe 5 people out there will appreciate this, but I am trying to parse a huge database dump of a foreign government's trademark registration data. I've just discovered that one of the trademarks is recorded as "<<<<Intelligence\\<<<<for<<<<<<\\<<<<Life<<<<<<".
(Cf. xkcd.com/327/)

How dupes turned online shopping upside down When everything is the same, who gets to claim ownership over ideas?

What's going on in the world of dupes, & how do these rapid-fire copies interact with the law?

Fascinating @theverge.com piece with great quotes & analysis from two top experts: @lexlanham.bsky.social & @design-law.bsky.social

www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

#dupes #academia #fashion

Coming to America is a strange experience for someone with a complex racial, religious, ethnic and national background. These many identities get subsumed under a racial or national identity that is then hyphenated with America.

Become a trademark examining attorney Learn more about the USPTO trademark examining position, what a typical day looks like, and why you should work at America’s Innovation Agency.

Of possible interest to law students studying intellectual property. www.uspto.gov/jobs/become-...

That was a serious lapse. You trusted me with your writing and time, and I responded with something that wasn't fully honest or earned. I'm sorry for that. I completely understand if this shook your trust, and if you want to step back from this.

I mean...

Closing public spaces rather than sharing them is a classic segregationist move

Thanks old friend.

Yeah this is not only addressed to them.

Last month there were allegations that some of my students may have used generative AI on my final exam. The incident led me to give some serious thought to how we are dealing with these tools in the professional education context. Here’s what I wrote to my students: jeremysheff.com/2025/06/02/g...

Neat study. I get that the copyright issues you address are keyed to pending litigation, but the hard question to my mind is how findings like this should influence our understanding of what "copying" (rather than substantial similarity) means with respect to LLM outputs.

Sundar Pichai does not know how to live.

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

This is what the current federal administration is trying to destroy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

This is what the current federal administration is trying to destroy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/h...

1. A must-read thread. I'll highlight three more problems with this opinion, which is the only case to prevent people from using a class action to challenge US government renditions to El Salvador. I often write about complex litigation, with a focus on class actions involving government bodies.

"Epistemic Unrest" is a really good catchphrase for the most important consequence of these technologies.

Rule of law is ‘endangered,’ chief justice says Speaking at Georgetown Law, Chief Justice John Roberts denounced “ad hominem” criticism of the justices.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

"Complications" lacks the negative connotations but probably also the light-heartedness, may be too jargony.

A thoroughly depressing article about AI, cheating, and learning
archive.ph/6kq0P

A YIMBY Theory of Power Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.”

my buddy @resnikoff.bsky.social off the top rope with some actual class analysis www.thenation.com/article/soci...