The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law by Steven D. Smith.  Here is a description: Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses

legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world. [...]

The Download of the Week is Functional Equivalence and Residual Rights Post-Carpenter: Framing a Test Consistent with Precedent and Original Meaning by Laura Donohue. 

Here is the abstract: The Carpenter Court held that warrantless access to seven or more days of cell site location information (CSLI) constitutes a violation of the [...]

J. Bolton Smith (University of Virginia School of Law, Students) has posted A Tale of Two Clauses: Factors Influencing Modern Effects of Aspirational Clauses in the German

and Japanese Constitutions (Virginia Journal of International Law, Forthcoming 2022) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Constitutions sometimes feature clauses listing [...]

Bernd Waas (Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Law) has posted The State and New Forms of Collective Voice on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: The paper analyses the current

state of workers´ voice in the platform economy and presents problems, possible solutions and current initiatives. [...]

D. Theodore Rave (University of Texas at Austin - School of Law) has posted Tort Claims As Property Rights (DePaul Law Review, Vol. 69, No. 2, 2020) on SSRN.  Here is the

abstract: Courts have long said that legal claims are a constitutionally protected form of property. [...]

Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School) has posted The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: As the semantic capability of computer systems

increases, the law should resolve clearly whether the First Amendment protects machine speech. [...]

Bethany Davis Noll (New York University (NYU) - Institute for Policy Integrity) & Richard L. Revesz (New York University School of Law) have posted Presidential Transitions:

The New Rules (Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: The Trump administration was unusually aggressive in using an obscure set [...]

Miriam Kullmann (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Harvard University Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs) has posted ‘Platformisation’ of Work: An EU Perspective

on Introducing a Legal Presumption (European Labour Law Journal) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: This contribution focuses on the benefits and limitations of introducing [...]

Matthew Marinett (University of Toronto, Faculty of Law) has posted The new frontier of platform policy ((2021) 10:3 Internet Policy Review) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

Platform policies aimed at the misbehaviour of users that occurs off of the platform, especially offline abuse, are a relatively new and understudied phenomenon that [...]

Paul Linden-Retek (Yale Law School; University at Buffalo School of Law; Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice) has posted ‘Safe Third

Country’: A Theory of a Dangerous Concept and the Democratic Ends of International Human Rights on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: This article develops a critique [...]