UVA Law’s student-run journals held receptions throughout the past week to aid 1Ls as they decided which journal to join. I shall speak to the two receptions that I attended: the Journal of Law and Politics (“JLP”) and the Virginia Journal of Law and Technology (“VJOLT”).

The presentation centered on what Matwyshyn calls "exploit machina problems," a reference to 2014 sci-fi thriller, Ex Machina and a piece of code that takes advantage of a vulnerability (an “exploit”). The term aptly foreshadows the premise of the article—that broken technologies in conjunction with broken governance can cause irreparable harm, sometimes at scale.