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TagLast edit: 22 Jul 2022 20:55 UTC by Leo

The law tag is for posts discussing EA-related legal research questions, when pursuing a law degree makes sense for EAs, how EAs should use a law degree, and EA-related legal jobs. (That list of topics is adapted from the description of the Effective Altruism & Law Facebook group.)

Further reading

Effective Altruism & Law (2018) About this group, Facebook, July 29.

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In­tro­duc­ing the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Project

jonasschuett30 Aug 2020 14:10 UTC
179 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Le­gal sup­port for EA orgs—use­ful?

Tyrone-Jay Barugh17 Mar 2022 3:35 UTC
64 points
18 comments10 min readEA link

On the (In)Ap­pli­ca­bil­ity of Cor­po­rate Rights Cases to Digi­tal Minds

Cullen28 Feb 2019 6:14 UTC
16 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Re­search: A Re­search Agenda

jonasschuett6 Jan 2021 21:47 UTC
58 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Two po­ten­tial cases of Effec­tive Ven­tures break­ing the law

Whistleblower33 Feb 2023 10:37 UTC
−58 points
39 comments2 min readEA link

New Work­ing Paper Series of the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Project

Legal Priorities Project18 Oct 2021 10:30 UTC
60 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Large Lan­guage Models as Fi­du­cia­ries to Humans

johnjnay24 Jan 2023 19:53 UTC
25 points
0 comments34 min readEA link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Law School: Why and When? – Con­sid­er­a­tions for Mem­bers of the EA Community

US Policy Careers18 Jul 2022 2:49 UTC
51 points
8 comments36 min readEA link

Cul­len O’Keefe: Do­ing the most good with a law de­gree

EA Global25 Oct 2020 5:48 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Ad­mis­sions and Fi­nan­cial Ad­vice for U.S. Law School Applicants

US Policy Careers18 Jul 2022 2:50 UTC
19 points
3 comments34 min readEA link

Pile of Law and Law-Fol­low­ing AI

Cullen13 Jul 2022 0:29 UTC
28 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

AGI mis­al­ign­ment x-risk may be lower due to an over­looked goal speci­fi­ca­tion technology

johnjnay21 Oct 2022 2:03 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Le­gal Im­pact for Chick­ens files its first law­suit! Costco share­holder deriva­tive case

alene7 Jul 2022 18:01 UTC
165 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Sci-Hub sued in India

cflexman30 Dec 2021 2:48 UTC
113 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Cal­ling EA lawyers: Le­gal Im­pact for Chick­ens is hiring!

alene18 May 2022 18:20 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Le­gal As­sis­tance for Vic­tims of AI

bob17 Mar 2023 11:42 UTC
48 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

New Se­quence—Towards a wor­ld­wide, wa­ter­tight Wind­fall Clause

John Bridge7 Apr 2022 15:02 UTC
25 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tional Crim­i­nal Law and the Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity: A The­ory of the Crime of Omnicide

philosophytorres22 Mar 2021 12:19 UTC
−3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Jan Leike: On the wind­fall clause

Cullen4 Aug 2022 23:37 UTC
61 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

[Question] What bank ac­counts are UK char­i­ties us­ing?

Greg_Colbourn7 Apr 2022 15:41 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

World fed­er­al­ism and EA

BrownHairedEevee14 Jul 2021 5:53 UTC
45 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Mak­ing Fac­tory Farm Cru­elty a Liability

eykim7 Apr 2022 14:46 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost]: Ger­man judges or­der gov­ern­ment to strengthen leg­is­la­tion be­fore end of year to pro­tect fu­ture generations

axioman29 Apr 2021 16:47 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Par­allels Between AI Safety by De­bate and Ev­i­dence Law

Cullen20 Jul 2020 22:52 UTC
30 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(cullenokeefe.com)

How to set up a UK or­gani­sa­tion (Limited Com­pany ver­sion)

james22 Apr 2022 11:44 UTC
68 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

“In­sider giv­ing”—An un­for­tu­nate dona­tion strat­egy used by cor­po­rate in­sid­ers to avoid losses

jasonk14 Apr 2021 0:42 UTC
23 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.elsblog.org)

Bring le­gal cases to me, I will donate 100% of my cut of the fee to a char­ity of your choice

Brad West11 Sep 2022 15:49 UTC
45 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: Re­duc­ing Suffer­ing and Long Term Risk in Com­mon Law Na­tions via Strate­gic Case Law Funding

Open Philanthropy12 Jul 2022 7:36 UTC
30 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Com­pute & An­titrust: Reg­u­la­tory im­pli­ca­tions of the AI hard­ware sup­ply chain, from chip de­sign to cloud APIs

HaydnBelfield19 Aug 2022 17:20 UTC
32 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(verfassungsblog.de)

[Question] What are the challenges and prob­lems with pro­gram­ming law-break­ing con­straints into AGI?

MichaelStJules2 Feb 2020 20:53 UTC
12 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

Con­tra Ap­piah Defend­ing Defend­ing “Cli­mate Villains”

Cullen12 Sep 2022 14:58 UTC
27 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Chang­ing Li­cences on the EA Forum

Ben_West7 Oct 2022 23:45 UTC
66 points
33 comments1 min readEA link

GovAI An­nual Re­port 2021

GovAI5 Jan 2022 16:57 UTC
52 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Dutch anti-trust reg­u­la­tor bans pro-an­i­mal welfare chicken cartel

Dale24 Feb 2021 15:44 UTC
47 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lexology.com)

Law-Fol­low­ing AI 3: Lawless AI Agents Un­der­mine Sta­bi­liz­ing Agreements

Cullen27 Apr 2022 17:20 UTC
28 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Law-Fol­low­ing AI 1: Se­quence In­tro­duc­tion and Structure

Cullen27 Apr 2022 17:16 UTC
34 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Surveillance and free ex­pres­sion | Sunyshore

BrownHairedEevee23 Feb 2021 2:14 UTC
10 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

Some his­tory top­ics it might be very valuable to investigate

MichaelA8 Jul 2020 2:40 UTC
89 points
34 comments7 min readEA link

Thoughts on le­gal con­cerns sur­round­ing the FTX situ­a­tion: doc­u­ment preser­va­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tions

Molly24 Nov 2022 2:05 UTC
125 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

FHI Re­port: The Wind­fall Clause: Distribut­ing the Benefits of AI for the Com­mon Good

Cullen5 Feb 2020 23:49 UTC
54 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

Thoughts on le­gal con­cerns sur­round­ing the FTX situation

Molly13 Nov 2022 17:01 UTC
367 points
65 comments4 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion re­port: Agri­cul­tural land redistribution

David Rhys Bernard14 Jul 2021 14:29 UTC
63 points
6 comments38 min readEA link

[Question] Would it make sense to use hu­man rights law against catas­trophic risks—like some seem to be do­ing re­gard­ing cli­mate change?

Ramiro26 Dec 2022 21:14 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Us­ing Ex­port Con­trols to Re­duce Biorisk

catehall23 Dec 2021 0:59 UTC
41 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Law school vs MPP in Aus­tralia for those who have strong ver­bal skills but are weak at maths

Douglas_M23 Mar 2021 5:13 UTC
14 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Law-Fol­low­ing AI 4: Don’t Rely on Vi­car­i­ous Liability

Cullen2 Aug 2022 23:23 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive En­force­abil­ity of EU Com­pe­ti­tion Law Un­der Differ­ent AI Devel­op­ment Sce­nar­ios: A Frame­work for Le­gal Analysis

HaydnBelfield19 Aug 2022 17:20 UTC
11 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(verfassungsblog.de)

The Case for Mak­ing Pro­fes­sional De­grees Un­der­grad­u­ate Degrees

ColdButtonIssues8 Jul 2022 19:56 UTC
38 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

APPG on Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions im­pact re­port – Rais­ing the pro­file of fu­ture gen­er­a­tion in the UK Parliament

weeatquince12 Aug 2020 14:24 UTC
87 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

Law-Fol­low­ing AI 2: In­tent Align­ment + Su­per­in­tel­li­gence → Lawless AI (By De­fault)

Cullen27 Apr 2022 17:18 UTC
19 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Tyler John: Per­son­hood initiatives

EA Global8 Jun 2018 7:51 UTC
8 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

I’m Cul­len O’Keefe, a Policy Re­searcher at OpenAI, AMA

Cullen11 Jan 2020 4:13 UTC
45 points
68 comments1 min readEA link

Law & Longter­mism Din­ner—EAG Bay Area 2023

Alfredo_Parra31 Jan 2023 10:47 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Who owns “Effec­tive Altru­ism”?

River1 Feb 2023 1:37 UTC
37 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

The Van­u­atu Ini­ti­a­tive, cli­mate liti­ga­tion and the rights of fu­ture generations

Ramiro10 Mar 2023 13:25 UTC
20 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(www.conjur.com.br)

Global catas­trophic risks law ap­proved in the United States

JorgeTorresC7 Mar 2023 14:28 UTC
151 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(riesgoscatastroficosglobales.com)

Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Sum­mer Institute

Leo13 Jun 2022 11:29 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.legalpriorities.org)

[Question] If I am a US busi­ness owner, can I legally donate to an un­re­lated char­ity as a busi­ness ex­pense to avoid the 37% in­come tax on that amount?

Will_Grover8 Jan 2021 16:07 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Global Health In­no­va­tion In­cen­tives, Pa­tent Trolls, and Ever­green­ing: Dis­cus­sion of Subtopics within US Pa­tent Policy

schethik30 Jul 2021 5:40 UTC
15 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

What if states don’t listen? A fun­da­men­tal gap in x-risk re­duc­tion strate­gies

HTC30 Aug 2022 4:27 UTC
24 points
1 comment17 min readEA link

On the Jour­ney Towards Action

jessefrances18 Jul 2022 7:01 UTC
3 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Do AI com­pa­nies make their safety re­searchers sign a non-dis­par­age­ment clause?

Ofer5 Sep 2022 13:40 UTC
70 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Slightly against al­ign­ing with neo-luddites

Matthew_Barnett26 Dec 2022 23:27 UTC
70 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Pro­ject Writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tion: Im­prov­ing Cost-Benefit Anal­y­sis to Ac­count for Ex­is­ten­tial and Catas­trophic Risks

Mackenzie7 Jun 2022 9:37 UTC
104 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

CTA: Help GWWC Char­ity Elec­tions up­scale by con­nect­ing us to le­gal coun­sel in new regions

Adam Steinberg13 Feb 2023 18:05 UTC
39 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Re­sources for EAs In­ter­ested in Law

McGill EA x Law20 Dec 2022 5:36 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Some ini­tial work to eval­u­ate the mer­its of an EA le­gal service

Tyrone-Jay Barugh15 Feb 2023 5:38 UTC
30 points
1 comment26 min readEA link

[Question] How should EAs man­age their copy­rights?

BrownHairedEevee9 Mar 2021 18:42 UTC
15 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] EA al­igned lawyers in Texas?

Solomon Sia10 Oct 2022 8:06 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

How to ‘troll for good’: Lev­er­ag­ing IP for AI governance

Michael Huang26 Feb 2023 6:34 UTC
26 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.science.org)

Dead­line Ex­tended: An­nounc­ing the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Sum­mer In­sti­tute! (Ap­ply by June 24)

Marisa26 May 2022 8:00 UTC
24 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

FHI Re­port: How Will Na­tional Se­cu­rity Con­sid­er­a­tions Affect An­titrust De­ci­sions in AI? An Ex­am­i­na­tion of His­tor­i­cal Precedents

Cullen28 Jul 2020 18:33 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

Very Briefly: The CHIPS Act

Yadav26 Feb 2023 13:53 UTC
33 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.y1d2.com)

Align­ing AI with Hu­mans by Lev­er­ag­ing Le­gal Informatics

johnjnay18 Sep 2022 7:43 UTC
20 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

The Wind­fall Clause has a reme­dies problem

John Bridge23 May 2022 10:31 UTC
40 points
0 comments20 min readEA link

An­titrust-Com­pli­ant AI In­dus­try Self-Regulation

Cullen7 Jul 2020 20:52 UTC
26 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(cullenokeefe.com)

Large Lan­guage Models as Cor­po­rate Lob­by­ists, and Im­pli­ca­tions for So­cietal-AI Alignment

johnjnay4 Jan 2023 22:22 UTC
10 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

Re­search Re­sources and Ques­tions for EAs In­ter­ested in Law

McGill EA x Law10 Jan 2023 23:44 UTC
4 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

McGill EA x Law Pre­sents: Im­pact Liti­ga­tion for An­i­mal Welfare

McGill EA x Law11 Jan 2023 0:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How of­ten does One Per­son suc­ceed?

Maynk0228 Oct 2022 19:32 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

McGill EA x Law Pre­sents: Ex­is­ten­tial Ad­vo­cacy with Prof. John Bliss

McGill EA x Law10 Jan 2023 23:56 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Non-Profit In­surance Agency

zwcoop13 May 2019 9:47 UTC
25 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Part 4/​4: Un­der-ex­plored Abo­li­tion­ist Approaches

Dhruv Makwana11 Jan 2023 13:51 UTC
27 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] What are VISAs available for non-profit/​char­ity founders in the U.S?

effectiveutils5 Sep 2022 10:41 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Should AI writ­ers be pro­hibited in ed­u­ca­tion?

Eleni_A16 Jan 2023 22:29 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Suggest a ques­tion for Christoph Win­ter of Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Project

luca28 May 2021 10:31 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Sur­vey: Le­gal needs in EA and longtermism

Tyrone-Jay Barugh15 Jul 2022 4:40 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(forms.office.com)

In­ter­view sub­jects for im­pact liti­ga­tion pro­ject (biose­cu­rity & pan­demic pre­pared­ness)

Legal Priorities Project3 Mar 2022 14:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How to mas­sively in­crease your dona­tions, for free

Katie S8 Jul 2020 3:00 UTC
35 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Les­sons Learned Or­ga­niz­ing an EA x Law Group

McGill EA x Law24 Dec 2022 1:52 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

High­lights from LPP’s field-build­ing efforts

Legal Priorities Project23 Mar 2023 8:18 UTC
71 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

England & Wales & Windfalls

John Bridge3 Jun 2022 10:26 UTC
13 points
1 comment26 min readEA link

Post-Mortem: Effec­tive Altru­ism x Law Pre­sents: Im­pact Liti­ga­tion for An­i­mal Welfare

McGill EA x Law31 Jan 2023 18:52 UTC
14 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Post-Mortem: McGill EA x Law Pre­sents: Ex­is­ten­tial Ad­vo­cacy with Prof. John Bliss

McGill EA x Law31 Jan 2023 18:57 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

‘Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Gover­nance un­der Change’ (PhD dis­ser­ta­tion)

MMMaas15 Sep 2022 12:10 UTC
52 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

[Question] Bill pro­hibit­ing the use of QALYs in US health­care de­ci­sions?

gordoni12 Mar 2023 7:27 UTC
44 points
10 comments1 min readEA link
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