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Asaf Lubin
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Associate Professor at Indiana University. Faculty Affiliations: BKC Harvard, ISP Yale, & HUJI Cyber Law. Writes and Teaches about International Law 🇺🇳, National Security 🪖, Cybersecurity 👾, Law and Tech 🤖, Espionage & Intelligence🕵️‍♂️, Torts 🏛️. 🏳️‍🌈
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The long wait is over. 2025 is going to be a great year. Coming soon with Oxford University Press.
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With 2.4 million #authors at the heart of SSRN, we’d like to share some thoughts from #researcher Asaf Lubin, Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

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Achievement unlocked! Your SSRN downloads are going to spike and generations of law students will now be citing you. The unknown secrets of the Jessup.
Thanks @ssrn.bsky.social for highlighting João Marinotti and my forthcoming paper in the @michiganstateu.bsky.social law review where we discuss how private law principles might be revived to impose meaningful constraints on tech companies’ growing pseudo-sovereign authorities.
This article warns that #BigTech’s power has grown beyond regulation into a threat to the #ruleoflaw, as companies leverage legal protections like the #FirstAmendment & § 230 to avoid oversight.

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This article warns that #BigTech’s power has grown beyond regulation into a threat to the #ruleoflaw, as companies leverage legal protections like the #FirstAmendment & § 230 to avoid oversight.

Read: spkl.io/63322AkbJ8
Subscribe: spkl.io/63325AkbJ1

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This article warns that #BigTech’s power has grown beyond regulation into a threat to the #ruleoflaw, as companies leverage legal protections like the #FirstAmendment & § 230 to avoid oversight.

Read: spkl.io/63322AkbJ8
Subscribe: spkl.io/63325AkbJ1

@iumaurerlaw.bsky.social
All aboard the Palsgraf express… it’s proximate cause day in my torts class so naturally I’m dressed as a train conductor ready to guide my students through the wonderful Cardozo Andrew’s maze that is the highlight of every 1L year.
DeeksFest 2025 was one of those rare moments in academic life when you pause, blink twice, and wonder how on earth you get to call this work.

Spoiler the video includes many laughs, insights, and me accusing Ashley of being a mage and putting up a slide of her in a Harry Potter sorting hat.
I had a great time chatting with @ssrn.bsky.social about my scholarship for their “Meet the Author” series.

I feel honored having my work spotlighted alongside such a distinguished body of academics.
🎙️ New podcast recording following my @lawfaremedia.org piece with Deborah Housen-Couriel, discussing wartime digital rights protection in the wake of the Ukraine and Netherlands v. Russia decision.

The piece is accessible here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/digi...
In our @lawfaremedia.org piece, Deborah Housen-Couriel & I explore this issue. The ruling affirms work I & others (with support from NATO CCDCOE) have advanced for years.

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But less has been said about the judgment’s groundbreaking implications for digital rights—especially privacy & data protection. For the first time, the Court affirms that privacy protections apply even during war, constraining how militaries collect & use personal data.
Great analysis has focused on right to life, attribution, & extraterritorial application—see commentary by Dapo Akande, Marko Milanović, Jasmine Sommardal, Miles Jackson, @isabellarisini.bsky.social & @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social, over @ejiltalk.bsky.social ECHRBlog @verfassungsblog.de.
Last month the @echr.coe.int issued a landmark judgment in Ukraine & the Netherlands v. Russia. It charted new ground on applying international human rights law during armed conflict & occupation—amid systematic and widespread violations of IHRL and IHL.
On July 9, the European Court of Human Rights found that Russia was responsible for human rights violations in its invasion and war in Ukraine. Deborah Housen-Couriel and @asaflubin.bsky.social explain the impact of the court's treatment of digital rights protections in the age of digital conflict.
Digital Rights in Armed Conflict and the Ukraine v. Russia Decision
A watershed decision from the European Court of Human Rights reaffirms privacy rights in war, limiting data collection by militaries in the age of digital conflict.
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Haha. Yes that canonical and clairvoyant reference by judge Andrews to a robotic vacuum. Who doesn’t remember that one.
Through a separate teaching award I've also been developing torts NextGEN bar compliant torts question sets & assignments.

Happy to share all these materials as well as my syllabus, my class notes, and slides with anyone who finds this interesting & wants to join the open casebook revolution.
Each case is followed by a set of learning tools designed to help students engage & retain content: reading comprehension Qs, AI-generated visuals for context, short “fun facts” & test your knowledge MCQs.

The goal here is to make the reading process more active, intuitive, & effective.
The case selection blends the classics with the contemporary, grounding core doctrines in modern factual contexts that speak to today’s students. The goal: help students see how tort law adapts (or fails to adapt) to the evolving ways people cause harm today not in 19th century.
With generous support from @iumaurerlaw.bsky.social & Indiana University Bloomington’s Libraries' Course Material Fellowship Program (CMFP), I’ve spent the last three years building a casebook that meets students where they are.

It's also available for purchase on Lulu: www.lulu.com/shop/asaf-lu...
Torts: Cases, Problems, and Policy Choices
This text offers a sustained exploration of private law remedies for harm arising from both intentional and accidental conduct. Throughout the text, we will examine the legal mechanisms—developed by c...
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Like many of my colleagues, I find it increasingly absurd that we ask our students—especially 1Ls, who have no say in their course selection—to spend hundreds of $ on new editions of casebooks that mostly repackage public domain court opinions.

This book is CC BY-NC licensed.

#OER #OpenCasebook
This Fall, I’ll be teaching Torts with a casebook I wrote: Torts: Cases, Problems, and Policy Choices. It’s free. It’s online. And it’s built with one goal in mind: student accessibility.

Check it out on @harvardlil.bsky.social's OpenCasebook.org platform: opencasebook.org/casebooks/15...
New short piece cross-posted on both Opinio Juris and on the ICoCA’s official blog “Private Security Conversations”. Discussing the rising use of emerging tech by private security companies & its implications for int’l regulation.

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Forthcoming work from Prof. @asaflubin.bsky.social highlighted by SSRN:
Shades of Legal Nuance: This paper explores the paradoxical nature of #espionage, highlighting its moral contradictions & the performative dance of denial & accusation.

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Watching from Geneva no less.. as close to the stage in real time as I’ve ever been.
I am once again chairing the Scholarship Award Committee of the International Law and Technology Interest Group at @asilorg.bsky.social.

Please consider submitting your or your students' scholarship. For more information on how to submit see here: www.asil.org/sites/defaul...