Assistant Prof. @UGASchoolofLaw
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I’m pleased to share that my article, “Copyright’s Nominal Humanism,” is forthcoming in the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review.
ssrn.com/abstract=5376145
Cc @UMichLaw, @umichLAMP
The psychology of reviewing seemingly AI-aided work is complicated. On the one hand, I'm adding all these comments & redline. On the other, idk how much effort went into producing the manuscript. Which makes me feel like a tool. And yet the piece is marginally better than others
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Context isn’t a problem in legal AI. God knows we have too much of it. We drown in so many documents, emails messages , chats, laws, regulations, things coming at us from all over. And it’s just getting worse with the ease at which content gets created with ai . The biggest problem is getting all the *right* context to help clients and create legal solutions for their problems. How do you identify, find, and gather the right context within all of those emails, documents, messages, and legal content to work on with legal ai and legal agents? That’s the real problem I think and it will just get worse with ai.
I’ve never actually watched Star Trek. It’s one of those shows I mostly learned about from references in other works (yes, including scholarship). Maybe it’s time to change that.
youtu.be/HN3HBjHkm5o
Kenneth Polite Jr. delivered the 125th Sibley Lecture earlier this year. Watch as the former U.S. assistant attorney general talks about his life experiences and the meaning of fair and equal protection under the law. youtu.be/KM_ASh9J9Qw
ALT Graphic shows a picture of Kenneth Polite Jr. delivering the Sibley Lecture at the School of Law, along with text regarding his speech and a play button.
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A huge part of why formal education works is the "formal": accountability structures, classmates you want to see, teachers you don't want to disappoint. You need all of that if you want completion rates above 10%.
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The law review submission process is long overdue for some competition, so this is welcome and interesting
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New Anthropic research: How AI agents shape experts' judgment calls
When experts delegate work to an agent, do they still make the key decisions? We tested this in a randomized trial with 50 professional data analysts.
This is interesting. I’ve met law professors who would be willing to do it. I wonder what precisely such openness correlates with?
Separately: if anyone has cutting edge analyses of these techs & issues they raise, please share.
Some of the writing I know feels outdated…
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I absolutely love this. Back in 2008 @zittrain wrote about the future of the internet and how to stop it, arguing that the appliancification of hardware fundamentally limited individual freedom and exposed us to all kinds of extractive corporate practices. This was enshittification before enshittification, completely antithetical to the liberating hacker spirit that birthed personal computing. Seeing people take back control over their hardware makes me very happy. There should be a millennium prize for the first person who does this to a printer.
Removed all of the samsung spyware from my TV with Codex (Claude refused to root the tv lol)
It's insane how much bloat samsung packs into their TVs to track you and sell your data. Here's just some of what I turned off that made my tv 3x faster:
- screenshot your screen a few times a second to see what you're streaming and fingerprint you to sell your data
- reading your hdmi inputs to do the same thing while you have a game console plugged in
- Voice assistants: Bixby wake-word detectors listening and tracking what you say in your house
Before and after speed of my TV:
I liked this essay by @JTasioulas examining such ideas. Unfortunately I don’t think it’s available online.
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“Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character.”
Finally reading the encyclical letter. I think the Pope is an IP minimalist. I don’t know if due to divine or Claude’s inspiration, but I’ll take it.
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Some revealing statistics on student preparation in today's SF Standard:
- "1,109 incoming freshmen at Berkeley had not met the writing standard"
- This is despite changes to AP cut offs, which increased passage rates by 20%!
- A writing prof at Berkeley says, "students were no better equipped for college-level writing than those at the state university and community college where she previously taught."
- "She recalled one student who couldn’t write in the past tense."
This is relevant for admissions testing: We admit students based on essays, yet, 1/5 arrive unable to satisfy our "entry level" writing requirement! It's past time to bring back a proctored admissions test.
sfstandard.com/2026/10/21/ai…
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Today we announce new findings from Visiting Fellow David Autor on how AI impacts how professionals build expertise. In a three-month randomized controlled trial with practicing patent attorneys, we test both short-term productivity & longer-term skill building that occur as a result of AI usage. More: goo.gle/4AVeOWf
ALT Estimated impact of AI access on patent drafting and redlining quality. Results are reported for all lawyers (black squares), junior lawyers under 7 years of experience (blue triangles), and senior lawyers with 7+ years of experience (orange diamonds). All estimates account for differences across law firms and adjust for slight variations in how many ratings each lawyer received.
Is this an example of those famous AI hallucinations? I'm finishing a copyright paper and double-checking some of the sources. Here, the USCO cites a source for a proposition that the source explicitly does not support. Why bother?
