Chinmayi Sharma

AI training becomes mandatory at more US law schools At orientation last month, 375 new Fordham Law students were handed two summaries of rapper Drake's defamation lawsuit against his rival Kendrick Lamar's record label — one written by a law professor, the other by ChatGPT.

Fordham Law students are gaining hands-on artificial intelligence training by learning how generative AI can mislead or oversimplify legal reasoning—an issue that Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) says "underscores the need for responsible AI use." via Reuters (@reuters.com)

SSRN logo; Scholarly Insights: Prof. Alan Rozenshtein; "Unbundling AI Openness," forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review (2026)

@alanrozenshtein.com and co-authors @ptnobel.bsky.social (Ph.D. candidate, Stanford University) and Prof. @chinmayisharma.bsky.social (Fordham School of Law) have published an article on @ssrn.bsky.social, "Unbundling AI Openness," forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review (2026).
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Excited to share a draft of my Note—AI Procurement as Regulatory Reconnaissance—forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review. Inspired by @cary-coglianese.bsky.social, I contend that federal procurement offers a compelling information-forcing tool to inform AI regulation.

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Thrilled to share that Unbundling AI Openness, my article with @alanrozenshtein.com and Parth Nobel is forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review! It introduces a framework of "differential openness" to correct the oversimplification of AI as either "open vs. closed."

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Excited to share a @lawfaremedia.org piece with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @samadler.bsky.social that builds off our article Brokering Safety, forthcoming in @califlrev.bsky.social, that calls for an overdue conversation about how much we privilege data broker profits over human safety.

I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

23andMe didn’t own your DNA—it was bailed to them. In Bailing Out Biometrics (forthcoming, J. Tort Law), Elijah Gordon & I argue that biometric data deserves bailment protection. Allowing its breach and then selling it in bankruptcy, isn’t just wrong—it’s illegal.

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Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship With summer just around the corner, are you looking to indulge in some juicy, page-turning scholarship? As always, the Blog has you covered with our biannual roundup of some of our favorite…

With summer just around the corner, are you looking to indulge in some juicy, page-turning scholarship?

Today, the Blog highlights some of the hottest new forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. 🔥🔥

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Enjoying a fascinating discussion on the role of technology in backsliding democracy @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social ft. @orlylobel.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social Aziz Huq, James Grimmelmann, Quinta Jurecic & others! Organized by @oliviersylvain.bsky.social & @chinmayisharma.bsky.social 🔥

2:26 Thomas Kadri (External) That l've co-authored with Chinmay Sharma. Thomas Kadri (External) And Sam Adler called brokering safety explores how data brokers

Thank you @thomaskadri.bsky.social for pairing scholarship with action. Drawing on our article with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social (Brokering Safety), Thomas testified in support of MA’s Location Shield Act and emphasized its importance in mitigating abuse survivors’ privacy self-management burden.

Haley Britzky @halbritz AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID. "They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

Your con law article about it was a thing of beauty.

My Article, “AI’s Hippocratic Oath,” has just been published by the Wash. U. L. Rev. It argues that AI engineers should be subject to the same level of responsibility we expect of any other profession.

It’s time we demand that AI’s architects do no harm.

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Sharma, Kadri, & Adler on Data Brokers and Safety for Abuse Victims, buff.ly/E4hgZG3 - Chinmayi Sharma (Fordham Law), Thomas Kadri (University of Georgia School of Law), & Sam Adler (Fordham Law) have posted Brokering Safety (114 Calif. L. Rev. (2026)) on SSRN.

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

“Brokering Safety” is forthcoming in Calif. L. Rev.! With @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social, we expose privacy law's complicity in how data brokers worsen stalking & IPV, then pitch a system for victims to obscure data across all brokers in one go. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The article I co-authored with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @samadler.bsky.social, "Brokering Safety," is forthcoming in the California Law Review! It proposes a system that would enable victims to obscure their info across all data brokers with a single request.

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Trump Stymies Labor Board by Firing Democrat Gwynne Wilcox (1) President Donald Trump fired National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox in an unprecedented personnel move that prevents the board from deciding cases and appears to violate federal law.

Trump just fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox. The NLRB now lacks a quorum & can't decide cases.

This violates the NLRA, which says Board members can be removed “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.” news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

Shameful. The job of *career* prosecutors at DOJ is not "faithfully implementing the President's agenda." I hope they sue for a blatant violation of the protections afforded to career, as compared with political, government employees. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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"(d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.

(e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell."

AT CONCEPTION??

Guess we're all women now.

DHS has terminated the memberships of everyone on its advisory committees.

This includes several cyber committees, like CISA's advisory panel and the Cyber Safety Review Board, which was investigating Salt Typhoon.

That review is "dead," person familiar says.

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Liverpool subreddit proposal to ban X links

Fallout from the inauguration yesterday: after Elon's notorious hand gesture, several large subreddits either have banned or are considering bans for links to X.com. So far I've seen r/pcgaming, r/marvelsnap, and r/liverpoolfc (shown below)

Well, this seems a little too on the nose:

Constitution removed from WH website:

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Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.

Donald Trump has pardoned Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, who has spent over a decade in prison for building the world's first dark web drug market. Ulbricht is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.

Clarifying The Military's Role In Protecting The Territorial Integrity Of The United States – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

This one is not getting enough attention. At least on its face, it seems to be directing NORTHCOM (through the Secretary of Defense) to develop a military campaign to “repel” the “invasion” resulting from “unlawful mass migration.” 1/10 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Donald Trump has revoked EO11246 signed by LBJ in 1965, mandating equal opportunities by federal contractors.

“‘Stay angry, little Meg,’ Mrs. Whatsit whispered. ‘You will need all your anger now.’”

- Madeleine L’Engle