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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm excited to post my new article, The End of Law, on SSRN, which will be published in the Washington & Lee Law Review. It's about the history of the rule of law, generative artificial intelligence, legal systems, and everything else. Comments and suggestions are welcome!

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Law has been on a journey: from an emanation of a sovereign (Rule of Men) to a set of principles designed to prevent arbitrary rule (Rule of Law) to massive leg

Convolver @convolver.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

A vision as old as Bentham’s pannomion and the codification movement. Looking forward to reading this!

Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I was looking for cold open material today for my first day of torts literally about the beginning of law. Crazy timing. Sick piece. 🔥

RI Smith @rismith.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is the end.

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Eerie Head Emerging from Murky Water

Alt: Corey emerges from the swampy water, face camouflage to terminate the rule of law with extreme prejudice

Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Congratulations, Corey!

Sharon Brett @sharonbrett.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Congrats!

Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For those too lazy to click on the link or who can't prove they are a human being at the security check, here is the abstract:

Law has been on a journey: from an emanation of a sovereign (Rule of Men) to a set of principles designed to prevent arbitrary rule (Rule of Law) to massive legal systems capable of governing dynamic industrial nations (Rule of Systems). A driving force behind each developmental stage has been minimizing the fallibilities of human beings in the application of law. Enter generative artificial intelligence (genAI), which has provoked predictions of profound disruption to legal practice, adjudication, and the Rule of Law itself. Proponents envision a future of frictionless access to justice, consistent legal reasoning, and the elimination of human bias from decision-making (Rule of Machines). Critics warn of opacity, unaccountability, and the erosion of the judgment that law requires. Both camps treat these stakes as novel, products of a technological rupture with no meaningful precedent.
However, the debates now unfolding around genAI are not new. They extend jurisprudential contests that have persisted throughout each of the prior stages of law’s development. The enthusiasm for algorithmic consistency echoes legal formalism’s ambition to purge law of the arbitrary. The anxiety about algorithmic law rehashes longstanding arguments that law without empathy is not just. And the deeper worry that language models cannot truly understand law revives unresolved questions about whether law is a formal semantic system or a social practice. The Article reframes genAI as a jurisprudential rather than technological problem, separating its new dangers from inherited ones, and proposes a framework for minimizing the harms of its introduction to law.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Provocative, but you're not wrong.

The End of Law
57 Pages Posted:
Corey Rayburn Yung
University of Kansas School of Law

Date Written: August 01, 2026

Abstract (this is the part Max changed)
We're cooked. We're so fucking cooked in so many ways. Law is bullshit. You're bullshit. I'm bullshit. I give up. Fuck you.

Keywords: Jurisprudence, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Rule of Law, Legal Systems

Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Did you see my post the other day? www.techdirt.com/2026/08/12/n...

Not Ready For Prime Time: The Current State Of Legal Ethics And AI

I’ve been presenting at UC Law San Francisco Lexlab Law and AI certificate program its past several sessions, as well as some law school classes, on whether lawyers’ use of AI complies …

heather bussing @heatherbussing.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Yay! Except for the end of law part.