Robert Carolina

I have recorded an updated introduction to my module on Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Cybersecurity (IY5621) at @RoyalHolloway, University of London. I look forward to seeing students on campus during the block mode delivery week in January 2026. youtu.be/OPlkGAyOydA?si…

@OrinKerr Paging @byelin Just because.

@OrinKerr Eventually, I formed this view. “The stories” ARE the law. The rules we teach are merely efforts to rationalise the narrative. 4/end

Random thought, but one reason why law schools assign so many cases, it seems to me, is that legal argumentation is in significant part a cultural practice. You have a legal culture in which certain arguments seem persuasive because the culture sees them as persuasive, and the decisionmakers are part of the culture. Depending on the court, or even the judge, there will be a certain role of text, or precedent, or reason, etc.. To make good arguments, you have to internalize that culture, and you can get there by reading a ton of cases in which judges are writing in ways that reflect (and in some cases, shape) that culture.

@OrinKerr Loving it.

I was reminded of a case comment I wrote as a 2L. Yikes. Among other major problems, I had 4 footnotes *in the first sentence.* Dear Law Review world, my apologies for that monstrosity (albeit 28 years too late). On the bright side, no one has ever read it.

@OrinKerr I remember reading an interesting paper on an IT-law subject that was let down by the title: something that mimicked a mathematical expression using superscript and subscript terms. Databases mis-indexed it, I had trouble citing it in a paper because of typography limits, etc.

One problem with making jokes in law review article titles is that people rely on titles to know what your article is about. You might be in stitches over your title, but it's making it harder for your readers—and probably less likely they'll spend their time trying to read it.

@snoozrooz @OrinKerr @PNW1983 I used to use names from well known situation comedies like one of my law school professors... until I realised that almost none of my students had ever watched the shows. So now it's Andy Alpha at Propellor Pockets Ltd buys Widgets from Bravo Boys Incorporated, etc.

@OrinKerr @PNW1983 I mean, thinking about Corporate governance is one thing if you plug in Jim, Sally, Bob and Fred. It's another if you plug in specific characters from well-known shows; people as "real" people can be considered. Again, easier in the days of greater common viewership.

@ruthbratt Not if you’re Welsh

@OrinKerr @EricColumbus They actually licensed the rights for a “remake” to avoid disputes.

@EricColumbus Wild, isn't it? Didn't realize they were repeating dialogue verbatim and then adding in jokes.

Niche tweet for GenX-ers, but I did not realize how much of "Airplane!" (1980) was parodying a specific movie, "Zero Hour!" (1957). I knew it was poking fun at the genre, but not one specific movie. This side by side comparison has the deets. youtube.com/watch?v=8-v2BH…

@NCSC @BlackHatEvents Indeed. I thought I’d wandered into a Taylor Swift concert. 😉

No one puts on a show quite like Vegas! 🇺🇸 The stage is set for our CEO Felicity Oswald to appear at Black Hat USA for a panel discussion on election security. #BlackHat2024 #BHUSA @BlackHatEvents

@SueHarrison123 That would clearly work for all of those roles.

@Rob2yall Very appealing list. Getting my Anna Wintour outfit ready.

The industry is dead so what can I retrain as? Here are my transferrable skills. I can; - impersonate liz truss - improvise a song in any genre - do a vent act where is sounds like I’ve swallowed a small girl in a well

@Ruth_A_Buzzi I’ve seen it before, and yet somehow it’s funnier when you tell it. 🙂

Just be forever thankful! Look how close this huge meteor landed to the Visitor Center!

@sallyhodgkiss Now THAT is some next level immersive theatre. Congratulations!

If the EU cyber resilience act (CRA) and product liability directive (PLD) are the answers to software cyber security, what were the questions? #FOSDEMpublic #cybersecurity #regulation #law

An anonymous scam caller said, “I have all your passwords.” I grabbed a pencil and paper and said, “Thank God! What are they?”

@ThatMariaPeters Nothing to see here