I just posed @IpseDixitPod #824, featuring @RichardAlbert & @KevinTFrazier of @UTexasLaw discussing their draft article "Should AI Write Your Constitution?" Highly recommended!

“Protect” is just a euphemism for “sue.” It’s no surprise that using copyright to suppress competition is a lucrative business strategy, but we shouldn’t allow it, because it turns copyright into a market failure.

I just posted @IpseDixitPod #823, featuring @LaurieStories discussing her new book "The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American Icon," which was published today by @penguinrandom.

Socrates was talking about writing, but he might as well have been talking about AI: "[T]hey seem to talk to you as if they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say, from a desire to be instructed, they go on telling you just the same thing forever.".

The water usage of a data center is about the same as a typical commercial farm.

RT @John_Attridge: No one will tell you this but the gaps in the literature review are where the light gets in.

I just posted @IpseDixitPod #822, featuring Jacob Schreiner-Briggs of @ChicagoKentLaw discussing his article "Against First Amendment Traditionalism" which is forthcoming in the @KYLawJournal.

RT @ashleytrubin: How has the normative turn in social science affected our ability to produce and use theory? Using a case study of punish….

It seems unlikely that the Harvard Law Review will decide to publish this article, so in the spirit of the article itself, I will give it to the first law journal that makes a publication offer. If you're interested, lmk in the comments.

RT @apublicgood: Want to live & work in a tropical paradise? Join us!! . Miami Law is hiring up to 4 faculty, inc. in Law & Tech. Appropria….

I posted a short new article last night.

Incidentally, if the @HarvLRev wants to publish this article, I'll let them have it. Otherwise entertaining offers from other journals as well.

RT @KevinTFrazier: "Of course, it is ridiculous and embarrassing that the legal academy effectively delegates its assessment of the quality….

Here's a link to the draft article. Many thanks to @MaybellRomero for her helpful comments.

I just posted a draft article to @SSRN titled "HLR Agonistes." It uses @ChatGPTapp to analyze the @HarvLRev memos published by @aaronsibarium in the @FreeBeacon. Here's the abstract, link below.

Maybe the tuétano special was a little more than I needed.

RT @thamosdeaf: Whoa didn’t expect this to gain traction, I’ve mentioned it before and nobody cares lol. Not saying the average person will….

Today’s flea market purchase.

In 2008, my mother donated a box of family records to the Holocaust Museum. Do I know anyone who can visit the reading room in Bowie, MD & make scans? Compensated, of course. Recommendations welcome!

Updated faculty page. It was time.