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#LawProf #FamilyLaw #BlackMastodon NYU Press would probably like me to say I have a chapter in their soon to be released book: CENTERING FAMILIES OF COLOR: A REIMAGINATION OF FAMILY LAW. My former colleague caught me as I was retiring to get a commitment to the project. If you teach family law or are interested in how families of color are treated in the system feel free to check it out. Edited by Nancy Dowd & R.A. Lenhardt.

James Oh Jul 14, 2025

"After Turnitin bought the company in 2018, a new set of terms and conditions took effect: Now student papers go into Turnitin’s global database and the company maintains a perpetual, royalty-free license over all of them."

https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/06/26/ai-detector-california

#lawfedi #lawprof

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup

Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

Caroline Mala Corbin Dec 6, 2024

Hello fellow members on @mastodon.lawprofs.org

Where are you going to migrate to when lawprofs.org shuts down?

Thanks!

#law #lawProf #ProfLaw

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Caroline Mala Corbin Dec 4, 2024

And here is my live tweeting of the oral argument from this morning

https://bsky.app/profile/carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social/post/3lcign5gdnc2e

#law #lawprof #lawfedi #Skrmetti #SCOTUS #LGBTQ #equality

Prof Caroline Mala Corbin (@carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social)

THREAD Arguments in Skrmetti v. U.S. are about to begin. This is the equal protection challenge to Tenn's law allowing puberty blockers & hormone therapy to treat cis kids but not trans kids First up is Elizabeth Prelogar, the amazing US solicitor general #Skrmetti #LGBTQ #SCOTUS

Bluesky Social

Caroline Mala Corbin Nov 6, 2024

US abortion rights supporters see victories despite major loss in Florida https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/05/florida-abortion-ballot-ban-measure-amendment

"abortion rights won in several other states, w Missouri voting to overturn the state’s near-total ban on abortion...Ballot measures in New York, Colorado & Maryland also passed,... In Nevada, a ballot measure to enshrine the battleground state’s abortion rights in the state constitution received its first nod of approval..."

Desperately looking for some positive news

#abortion #lawfedi #lawProf

US abortion rights supporters see victories despite major loss in Florida

Several states vote to enshrine protections but effort to roll back Florida’s six-week abortion ban fell short

The Guardian

Caroline Mala Corbin Oct 25, 2024

Kamala #Harris for president https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/a/endorsement-president-kamala-harris-democracy-20241025.html

"Voters face an easy but tectonic choice in the race for the White House.

Will they choose the prosecutor or the convict?

Will they choose the candidate who supports restoring Roe v. Wade or the man who bragged about overturning it?

Will they choose the candidate who upholds the peaceful transfer of power or the one who summoned a violent mob to attack the U.S. Capitol?"

This editorial cannot be posted often enough

#law #lawFedi #lawprof

Kamala Harris for president | Endorsement

There has never been a more important presidential election in our lifetime. The road to the White House may well run through Pennsylvania and every vote matters.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Caroline Mala Corbin Oct 16, 2024

Italy passes anti-surrogacy law that effectively bars gay couples from becoming parents https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/16/italy-surrogacy-ban-gay-parents/

Far right targeting of LGBTQ couples:
"Even backers concede that heterosexual couples may face few questions when returning to Italy with an infant...Who is to say that the woman in that couple didn’t deliver the baby while abroad? By contrast, an infant in the arms of same-sex parents—particularly two men—would amount to an obvious red flag."

#law #lawfedi #LawProf #equality #LGBTQ

Italy passes anti-surrogacy law that effectively bars gay couples from becoming parents

The West’s most restrictive law against international surrogacy threatens would-be parents who use birth mothers abroad with jail time and severe fines.

The Washington Post

Caroline Mala Corbin Oct 1, 2024

Women are not ‘community property,’ a Georgia judge strikes down 6 week abortion ban https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/01/abortion-georgia-six-week-judge/

Love the bluntness: “It is not for a legislator, a judge, or a Commander from The Handmaid’s Tale to tell these women what to do with their bodies during this period when the fetus cannot survive outside the womb any more so than society could—or should—force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another,”

#LawFedi #LawProf #abortion #Georgia