Zachary Catanzaro

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My working draft is now on SSRN: "The Dead Law Theory: The Perils of Simulated Interpretation." I argue originalism progressively reduced meaning to pattern, making its computational displacement inevitable. Drawing on Baudrillard and Searle, interpretation became simulation before AI ever arrived.

My new article, "Sovereignty in the Technological Singularity," is forthcoming in the Yale J. of Law & Tech. The article traces how algorithmic systems preserve human intention beyond death, evading the democratic accountability that mortality once guaranteed.
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Ernst Fraenkel called it the dual state.

IP Section pedagogy panel #AALS2026

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
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I submitted a response article last night and still have not been approved.

tell me you're a middle aged millennial without telling me

muppet fozzie bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a hat and tie . ALT: muppet fozzie bear is singing into a microphone while wearing a hat and tie .

He beat the wrap.

Hello from Delaware

I filed an amicus brief on behalf of 24 professors challenging the interim PTO director's illegal policy of blocking IPRs for any patent that is more than a few years old.

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“The taste of any public is not to be treated with contempt”

Fascism For First Time Founders Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…

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Ghosts in the Machine: Training AI to Outlive Us | Zachary Catanzaro | TEDxSTU YouTube video by TEDx Talks

I did a thing.

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BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE 363 LAW PROFESSORS IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND FOR DECLARATORY AND PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF | Stanford Law School Amici 363 law professors submit this brief in support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment and for Declaratory and Permanent Injunctive Relief

Along with @prmalone.bsky.social, @heidikitrosser.bsky.social, and several colleagues at Stanford, I filed this amicus brief on behalf of 363 law professors in support of Perkins Coie and the rule of law. We will file similar briefs for Jenner and Wilmer Hale

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Appellant Sends AI Avatar To Oral Argument... Judges Are NOT Pleased - Above the Law This is the wrong kind of LL.M.

You wouldn't download a lawyer, would you? abovethelaw.com/2025/03/appe...

"As deans of law schools, we have a special responsibility for the legal profession. Recently, the federal government has imposed significant sanctions on the law firms of Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling, Paul Weiss, and Jenner & Block seemingly because of the clients they and their lawyers represented and litigation in which their lawyers participated. We write to reaffirm basic principles: The government should not punish lawyers and law firms for the clients they represent, absent specific findings that such representation was illegal or unethical. Punishing lawyers for their representation and advocacy violates the First Amendment and undermines the Sixth Amendment. We thus speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy." [Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions]

List of law school deans who signed the March 26, 2025 letter: Nicholas W. Allard, Jacksonville University College of Law Johanna Bond, Rutgers Law School Lolita Buckner Inniss, University of Colorado Law School Marisa Cianciarulo, Western State College of Law Anthony W. Crowell, New York Law School Jerry Dickinson, University of Pittsburgh School of Law David L. Faigman, UC Law San Francisco Neil Fulton, University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law James Hackney, Northeastern University School of Law Blake Hudson, Cumberland School of Law at Samford University Alena M. Allen, LSU Martin H. Brinkley, UNC Chapel Hill School of Law Cinnamon Carlarne, Albany Law School Brietta Clark, LMU Loyola Law School Judith Daar, NKU Chase College of Law Jeffrey C. Dobbins, Willamette University College of Law Roger A. Fairfax, Jr., Howard University School of Law Jace C. Gatewood, Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School Zelda B. Harris, Western New England University Melanie B. Jacobs, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law Jessica Berg, UC Davis S. Todd Brown, Buffalo School of Law Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Berkeley School of Law Danielle M. Conway, Penn State Dickinson Law Camille M. Davidson, Mitchell Hamline School of Law Angela Felecia Epps, UNT Dallas College of Law Joshua Paul Fershée, Creighton University School of Law Leah Chan Grinvald, UNLV Boyd School of Law Cassandra L. Hill, Northern Illinois University College of Law Jelani Jefferson Exum, St. John’s University School of Law

Additional law school deans who signed the March 26, 2025 letter: Roscoe Jones, Jr., Drake University Law School Jason Kreag, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law Madeleine M. Landrieu, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Melanie Leslie, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University Beth McCormack, Vermont Law & Graduate School David D. Meyer, Brooklyn Law School Lumen N. Mulligan, University of Missouri–Kansas City Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Boston University School of Law Austen Parrish, UC Irvine School of Law LaVonda N. Reed, University of Baltimore School of Law Johanna Kalb, University of San Francisco School of Law Anita K. Krug, Chicago-Kent College of Law Renee Hutchins Laurent, University of Maryland Carey School of Law Odette Lienau, Boston College Law School William McGeveran, University of Minnesota Law School Richard Moberly, University of Nebraska College of Law Eboni S. Nelson, University of Connecticut School of Law Antony Page, Florida International University College of Law Wendy C. Perdue, University of Richmond School of Law Amelia Smith Rinehart, West Virginia University College of Law Michael J. Kaufman, Santa Clara University School of Law Joseph Landau, Fordham Law School Stacy L. Leeds, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University Stephen W. Mazza, University of Kansas School of Law James McGrath, Cooley Law School Fernando Moreno Orama, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico Law School Jens David Ohlin, Cornell Law School Brian Pappas, University of North Dakota Andrew Perlman, Suffolk University Law School Jenny Roberts, Hofstra University Maurice A. Deane School of Law

Additional law school deans who signed the March 26, 2025 letter: Jacob H. Rooksby, Gonzaga University School of Law Michael Sant’Ambrogio, Michigan State University College of Law Michael Hunter Schwartz, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific Jamelle C. Sharpe, University of Illinois College of Law Franita Tolson, USC Gould School of Law Michael Waterstone, UCLA School of Law Melanie D. Wilson, Washington and Lee University School of Law Paul Rose, Case Western Reserve University School of Law Robert A. Schapiro, University of San Diego School of Law Sean M. Scott, California Western School of Law Henry C. Strickland (Retired), Samford University William M. Treanor, Georgetown University Law Center Ronald Weich, Seton Hall Law School Charles H. Rose III, Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law Nicholas J. Schroeck, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law Sudha Setty, City University of New York School of Law Patricia Timmons-Goodson, North Carolina Central University School of Law Anthony Eudelio Varona, Seattle University School of Law David J. Western, Appalachian School of Law

Today, #GeorgetownLaw Dean William M. Treanor joined 79 law school deans in signing the letter posted below, issued March 26, 2025.

[ Those signing are expressing their personal views and are not speaking for their institutions. Find the full letter and list of signatories: bit.ly/4hSna6u ]

Eric Goldman and I (along with the Juelsgaard clinic at Stanford Law School) filed this brief on behalf of 31 law professors in the Eleventh Circuit urging them to reject the idea that keyword advertising and initial interest confusion are trademark infringement.

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AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality Generative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.

“A hyperreal henceforth sheltered from the imaginary, and from any distinction between the real and the imaginary, leaving room only for the orbital recurrence of models and for the simulated generation of differences.”

― Jean Baudrillard

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Here at Santa Clara School of Law's beautiful campus to present my latest article, Algorithmic Death-Worlds: Sovereignty in the Technological Singularity.
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Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours MILWAUKEE—Growing more despondent as each turn brought them no closer to a conclusion, an exhausted group of friends was reportedly coming to the realization Friday that they had been playing the boar...

Exhausted Friends Slowly Realize They Were Playing Board Game Wrong Entire 6 Hours

Wild.

Thanks to the wonderful student editors of Fordham's IPLJ for their hard work on my recent article Algorithmic Dead Hands: What is Dead May Never Die. The article explores how AI can exploit property law's weakened restrictions on dead hand control. ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/iplj/vol35/i...