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.

The blog post 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.

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...

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

Watching from Geneva no less.. as close to the stage in real time as I’ve ever been.