@raulcarrillo
law prof @ BC. focused on the future 💸 ⚖️ 🛰️ formerly Deputy Director @lpeproject.bsky.social. organizing committee, @a-lpe.bsky.social https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/law/academics-faculty/faculty-directory/raul-carrillo.html
We're about to see a new surveillance trap: "Plaid for AI"
This will look like slick middleware that seamlessly hooks CRMs to Claude, gmail to GPT-5 etc, etc.
UX will be great & founders well-meaning.
Then the VCs ask: what else can we do with this sick tokenflow data? 1/
I’ve got a spicy essay on @lpeblog.bsky.social arguing Trump2 so far has been like 1979 deregulation returning as farce
lpeproject.org/blog/market-...
And in case any law reviews are looking for a great article, “Lewis Powell, Neoliberalism, and the Privatization of Public Law" is looking for a home
a photo of Justice Powell from his time on the Supreme Court
Depending on who you ask, Lewis Powell Jr. is either: an ideological mastermind of the Right who led the corporate counter-revolution OR the Supreme Court’s quintessential “swing justice" upholding liberal positions in some of the Court’s most high-profile cases (from affirmative action to abortion)
Thank you to the most brilliant @veenadubal.bsky.social for being my conversation partner about my book on the @lpeblog.bsky.social and to the masterful @jamesbrandt.bsky.social for his support. lpeproject.org/blog/how-fem... @bulaw.bsky.social
Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.
This is an unjust, illegal war. It violates our treaties and our laws. Presidential impunity must end.
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i was honestly a bit surprised on this front
Is it accurate to call the transaction an "accident?"
In my Contracts class last fall, we explored whether these sorts of phenomena could doctrinally qualify as mistakes
the regulatory questions are thornier
more importantly: hero
www.theblock.co/post/390722/...
psyched this guy also now has a fintech app to teach Gen-Z about money
(filling the utter vacuum of public education regarding money, banking, and finance)
techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/m...
here we go
we'll see how Circle, Coinbase, and every other corporation actually at the table responds
what is banking?
bankingjournal.aba.com/2026/02/occ-...
here we go
we'll see how Circle, Coinbase, and everyone else actually at the table responds
what is banking?
www.occ.gov/news-issuanc...
the wildest part of this is that IBM has had AI products designed to do this EXACT stuff for years now!
I think Claude could be a *slightly* better version of the same idea, but I think this selloff shows that "the market" doesn't understand tech the way it thinks it does...
whew this piece by a Minnesota law prof says the "destabilization" rn is "not the breakdown of legal protection, but the migration of those cracks inward [...] That migration from margin to center is visible not only on the street but in constitutional doctrine itself"
lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...
Really honored to have my new @harvardpress.bsky.social book be part of an @lpeblog.bsky.social symposium! I am deeply grateful to @lpeproject.bsky.social colleagues for the opportunity, and to my respondents @maggor.bsky.social, @abalasub.bsky.social & Amy Cohen for engaging with my work. 🙏
Yes - for commodities and derivatives!
this dynamic is part of why researching Big Tech and financial stability is difficult
Sometimes “there’s a gap” in accounting rules, but often there’s unresolved legal contestation around those rules. It’s sand under there, too, like Berle wrote
what are we going to do? demand disclosure harder?
"A gap in US accounting rules allows Big Tech companies to conceal tens of billions of dollars of potential liabilities for their AI data centres, the credit rating agency Moody’s warned... liabilities might not show up anywhere" in the accounting
perhaps the most striking demonstration that permissioned stablecoin systems can enable mass surveillance. Please stop stressing the anonymity narrative
Total control of new monetary infrastructure will allow them to cut and freeze and choke with even more precision
www.ft.com/content/cf4f...
YouTuber MrBeast's company is buying the teen banking app, Step, as it looks to expand beyond media and chocolate bars and into fintech.
worth noting that this rising interlocked set of risks in finance & the lack of adults in the financial regulatory room is why I'm running for the Massachusetts public pension fund board
public pension funds have *so much power* & I'm lucky to be a third-gen beneficiary of this $115 bn fund 💰
& I didn't even touch what's happening at the SEC - perfect image of the 'giant void of nothingness' at U.S. financial regulators these days by @robinwigglesworth.ft.com
www.ft.com/content/b5d9...
I wrote about how unregulated finance is now just, well, finance for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
the center of gravity in finance has completely shifted & our mental models & policymaking approaches need to catch up
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...
It's A Wonderful Life does not portray a classic run on bank deposits
Rather, it primarily features a run on the shares of a Building & Loan Association, so I'm not even sure it's helpful for teaching intermediation theory or fractional reserve stories
Weird how it became a staple in the genre
Today, Emmanuel Mauleón reflects on the situation in Minnesota, what it tells us about the law, and how the legal community should respond.
lpeproject.org/blog/whistli...
The most exciting political news of the year, and I meant it.
We take back workers' capital from financiers, we starve them of political power
& I'm deeply rooted in MA, which is way more complex than many ppl think politically, but I know us
will be reaching out to many of you for support to win: election opens late march and closes in may
will share official bio for election & election procedures for all you SERS members out there
