Alicia Vikander

Ed. note: Above the Law will not be publishing on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We’ll be back on Tuesday. Have a good weekend!

* Only a few weeks before law school classes were to start, Alicia Vikander’s acting career took off. Now she has an Academy Award nomination, so I guess that was a good call. [KPCC]

* Fans and/or opponents of Making a Murderer are have a hard time with nuance and the concept of “reasonable doubt.” [Gawker]

* As a native New Yorker, and decent human being on planet earth, let me just say to Ted Cruz: F*ck you. [New York Daily News]

* Spoiler alert: law school internships are still a terrible idea. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* “[P]roof that that the holidays are finally over: avalanche of legal tech this week,” via Monica Bay. [CodeX]

* A law school parody from Australia — I guess law school nonsense is a universal language. [Australian Lawyer]

* A showdown is a brewing! 2016 is going to be a big year for reproductive freedom. [Pacific Standard]

* When would Supergirl be responsible for damages? [Legal Geeks]