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A Century of Evolution in the Complexity of the United States Legal Code
Dawoon Jeong, James Holehouse, Jisung Yoon, Chris Kempes, Geoffrey B West, Hyejin Youn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14342

A Century of Evolution in the Complexity of the United States Legal Code
As societies confront increasingly complex regulatory demands in domains such as digital governance, climate policy, and public health, there is a pressing need to understand how legal systems evolve, where they concentrate regulatory attention, and how their institutional architectures shape capacity for adaptation. Yet, the long-term structural dynamics of law remain empirically underexplored. Here, we provide a versioned, machine-readable record of the United States Code (U.S. Code), the pri…

Canada-based Clio, which makes cloud tools for law firms, agrees to acquire vLex, which offers a legal and regulatory database and an AI assistant, for $1B (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/clio-to-acquire-american-legaltech-vlex-for-1-billion…

Clio to acquire American legaltech vLex for $1 billion USD
vLex offers an extensive legal and regulatory database alongside an AI-powered assistant.

PETLP: A Privacy-by-Design Pipeline for Social Media Data in AI Research
Nick Oh, Giorgos D. Vrakas, Si\^an J. M. Brooke, Sasha Morini\`ere, Toju Duke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09232

PETLP: A Privacy-by-Design Pipeline for Social Media Data in AI Research
Social media data presents AI researchers with overlapping obligations under the GDPR, copyright law, and platform terms -- yet existing frameworks fail to integrate these regulatory domains, leaving researchers without unified guidance. We introduce PETLP (Privacy-by-design Extract, Transform, Load, and Present), a compliance framework that embeds legal safeguards directly into extended ETL pipelines. Central to PETLP is treating Data Protection Impact Assessments as living documents that evol…

Red Teaming AI Policy: A Taxonomy of Avoision and the EU AI Act
Rui-Jie Yew, Bill Marino, Suresh Venkatasubramanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01931 https:…

Red Teaming AI Policy: A Taxonomy of Avoision and the EU AI Act
The shape of AI regulation is beginning to emerge, most prominently through the EU AI Act (the "AIA"). By 2027, the AIA will be in full effect, and firms are starting to adjust their behavior in light of this new law. In this paper, we present a framework and taxonomy for reasoning about "avoision" -- conduct that walks the line between legal avoidance and evasion -- that firms might engage in so as to minimize the regulatory burden the AIA poses. We organize these avoision strategies around th…