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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm very happy to announce that I'm hosting the THIRD Annual Democracy and Public Law Works-in-Progress Conference at Michigan State from April 2–3, 2027. The registration portal is below, where there's additional information about the schedule and timing. msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

For a very long time I have been getting people to see how there is a battle to become the “platform for policing” and what that means to the legal system. This article gets it. It’s worth a read to see our AI driven policing future. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Computer cops

Inside the big business of selling AI to the police.

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Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Very honored to be recognized as Researcher of the Year @setonhalllaw.bsky.social @setonhall.bsky.social. 2025–2026 has been an important year, both personally and professionally, and I’m incredibly grateful.

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Spring-inspired offprints! (Thank you @vandylaw.bsky.social Law Review) If you’d like to join me in thinking more critically about the future of holistic criminal justice reforms in an era of algorithmic governance, give it a read (tinyurl.com/5cfjnku8) #AcademicSky #AI #CriminalJustice

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Extremely grateful to @lsolum.bsky.social for highlighting Anti-Holistic Algorithms 🙏🏻! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Can holistic criminal justice survive algorithmic governance? Another new 📄 of mine, “Anti-Holistic Algorithms,” now out with the @vandylaw.bsky.social Vanderbilt Law Review, grapples with this question (ssrn: shorturl.at/eyZhu) abstract 👇 & short thread 1/6

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Michal Buchhandler-Raphael @buchhandler.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Feedback welcome! Would love to hear any thoughts on this piece, which is the third installment in a series of papers on victimized offenders in domestic settings.

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Nate Ela @nateela.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is going off into production today @uchicagopress.bsky.social and I can’t wait to share it with the world next spring. A story of land, property, and social policy, told via Chicago’s farms and gardens, past and present.

Cover page of a book manuscript. Title reads “Cultivating the City: The Long Struggle to Put Land to Use”
Under that it says “By Nate Ela”

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Nila Bala @nilabala.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Happy to share that Developmental Evidence Rules is forthcoming in the California Law Review! What would it mean to take childhood seriously in evidence law? This article takes up that question.

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Jill Wieber Lens @jillwieberlens.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Ally beat me to it, but excited to share that "Perinatal Palliative Care & Abortion," co-authored with @amwhelan.bsky.social, is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review. Abstract below and it will be up on SSRN as soon as SSRN allows...

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Gilat Bachar @gilatjbachar.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

My latest with the @ucdavislaw.bsky.social Review argues that plaintiffs’ lawyers can refuse harmful NDAs by defining the scope of representation at the outset and reclaiming their role as both advocates and stewards of justice. Check it out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @templelaw.bsky.social

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Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Thrilled that my article with William ("Chip") Carter, An Originalist Critique of Fetal Personhood, is now forthcoming in the Pennsylvania Law Review!!! It was weirdly fun to spend months buried in 19th century dictionaries & Locke's writings. We are still editing but hope to have it online soon!

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Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

My latest article with the one and only @spenceroverton.bsky.social called “Digital Ethnonationalism” forthcoming in University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Here is the papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Jake Charles @jacobdcharles.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Very excited that @gelbach.bsky.social & I will be publishing "Bruen's Tenth Amendment Problem" in the @uchilrev.bsky.social! Our central arg is that Bruen's erasure of unexercised powers violates the 10th Am's preservation of existing State power. Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Laura Portuondo @lauraportuondo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

My latest, "Free Exercise and the Redistribution of Liberty," is now posted (and forthcoming in @yalelawjournal.bsky.social). It argues that free exercise doctrine uses selective market logic to redistribute both public resources and liberty itself. Comments welcome: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=618...

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Michael Smith @msmith750.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

My latest article, "In Praise of Generative AI," is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review! In it, I present accounts from the Worst People You Will Ever Meet In Law in which they praise generative AI and all the extra terrible behavior it enables: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In Praise of Generative AI
65 Pages Posted: Last revised: 9 Feb 2026
Michael L. Smith
University of Oklahoma - College of Law

Date Written: February 09, 2026

Abstract
In this article, I team up with the Worst People You Will Ever Meet in Law to praise generative AI. After introducing themselves, these actors explain how this technology is a godsend. The terrible lawyer describes how he remains asleep at the wheel and turns over motions, briefing, and client counseling to erratic AI. The worst clients explain how they now prepare all legal documents themselves and refuse to pay attorneys’ unwarranted fees. The lazy judge describes how she replaces party submissions with AI and delegates the task of reasoned judgment to technology. The horrible law professor describes how he’s outsourced teaching, assessment, and scholarship to a machine. The disengaged law student explains how she uses AI to circumvent class discussions and assignments. And the sovereign citizen explains how he’s able to generate harassing nonsense at an unprecedented scale. I close with reflections on what this might mean for the technology’s use in legal spaces, including the need for both advocates and critics of generative AI to consider how the technology will be misused and abused. Finally, I warn that prolonged generative AI usage might transform reasonable individuals into my terrible coauthors.

Keywords: artificial intelligence, generative AI, large language models, legal writing, litigation, discovery, professional responsibility, misconduct, pedagogy, sovereign citizens, law and technology

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Nila Bala @nilabala.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Thrilled to share that 𝐺𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑑 has found a home with the Yale Law Journal. This piece examines parental liability regimes and parental rights, and how they are connected by a shared logic that harms children and families. Thank you to all those who read drafts and offered feedback!

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Another new article of mine is officially out: “(Re)Individualizing Criminal Law,” (67 B.C L. Rev. 255 (2026): lnkd.in/eR9eF7Fv Abstract 👇 & v. short 🧵 1/6

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The Article argues that algorithmic risk assessment tools are reshaping criminal law itself by moving the focus away from the foundational principle of subjective culpability. I explore these shifts & ask: can the system restore its commitment to that principle? Let me know what you think! 2/6

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

@brettfrischmann.bsky.social, Maša Galič, Katrina Geddes, Eve Hanan, Paul Heaton, Sarah Lageson, @marklemley.bsky.social .bsky.social, Evelyn Malave, Sandy Mayson, Nicola Padfield, @frankpasquale.bsky.social, Teri Ravenell, David Schwartz, David Sklansky, Sarah Swan, Christopher Yoo 4/6

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This one has been long in the making and benefited from the wisdom and advice of many (apologies if there is someone I missed): @gilatjbachar.bsky.social, @IsabellaBanks, @nbanteka.bsky.social, Matthew Bruckner, @buchhandler.bsky.social, @erincollins.bsky.social, @m2dempsey.bsky.social, 3/6

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

@lawandsociety.bsky.social 2024 Ann. Meeting; The Criminal Jurisprudence & Philosophy Seminar U. Cambridge; & the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law & Howard University School of Law Faculty Workshops. The BCLR editors were incredible - thank you! 6/6 END!

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

the participants at the Stanford-UPenn-Northwestern Junior Faculty Forum on Law & STEM; ABA-AALS Criminal Justice Roundtable on Criminal Law and Technology: @profferguson.bsky.social, @ggkrishnamoomoo.bsky.social & Melanie Reid; CrimFest 2024; Privacy Law Scholars Conference Europe 2024. 5/6

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Another new article of mine is officially out: “(Re)Individualizing Criminal Law,” (67 B.C L. Rev. 255 (2026): lnkd.in/eR9eF7Fv Abstract 👇 & v. short 🧵 1/6

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hey GW Law (or other DC folks)! I'll be doing this panel with some really smart people exploring various legal issues about what's happening in Minnesota right now. Come check it out!

Flyer advertising panel on "ICE's Action in Minnesota: Key Legal Issues," with Laura Dickinson, Maneka Sinha, Tania Valdez, and me. Tuesday, February 3 at 12PM at the Studence Conference Center at GW Law.

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Breaking my partial social-media hiatus w/3 new papers: Missing Children Discrimination (Wis. L. Rev 2025(4)) w/ Tanisha Brown— shorturl.at/5rl86 abstract 👇) Anti-Holistic Algorithms (forth. Vanderbilt L. Rev) (Re)Individualizing Criminal Law (forth. B.C. L. Rev) More soon on SSRN—comments welcome!

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

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Legal Theory Blog

Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!

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Gilat Bachar @gilatjbachar.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Can civil settlements be coercive? My new piece in the GW Law Review explores how power, pressure & silence deals can undermine true consent. Feedback welcome! Read more here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @templelaw.bsky.social

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Thrilled to be on the beautiful @vanderbilt.edu campus to present my newest work, 'Anti-Holistic Algorithms,' as part of the @vandylaw.bsky.social Vanderbilt Law Review’s symposium on "Holistic Criminal Justice". Looking forward to this important conversation! #criminaljustice

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Junior faculty in law and STEM fields -- Call for Papers Eighth Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, September 26-27, 2025 Electronic submissions should be made here: web.cvent.com/event/80992b.... The deadline for submissions is June 3, 2025.

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Itay Ravid @itayravid.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Really enjoyed my visit to beautiful Cambridge, UK to present my newest “(Re)Individualizing Criminal Law” at the Criminal Jurisprudence & Philosophy workshop! Thanks Hend Hanafy and Antje du Bois-Pedain @cambridgelaw.bsky.social for the invitation and hospitality! #crimlaw #lawprofessors

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

With only two weeks left in the year, Philly is on track to have its lowest number of homicides in a DECADE, and its third-best year since 2007. Down 37% since last year, down FIFTY PERCENT since 2022. The entire Covid spike, absolutely wiped out. And the coverage? Basically crickets.

Data from Philly PD, showing Philly on track for an amazing decline in homicides.

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Gilat Bachar @gilatjbachar.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Excited to see my new paper, Informed Bystanders’ Duty to Warn, just published with the Minnesota Law Review, on @ssrn.bsky.social’s Top Papers List! The paper considers when bystanders should warn victims about prospective harm. Check it out: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Lisa L. Ouellette @patentscholar.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

For aspiring law teachers: Stanford Law Grey Fellows have a near-perfect record of tenure-track placements & record of supporting nontraditional applicants. 2 yrs practice or clerkship experience required. Applications due 10/15: law.stanford.edu/research/sls...

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Thomas C. Grey Fellowship | Stanford Law School

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