Introduction Law students begin to encounter the concept of a "standard of review" early in the first year. That's not surprising. First-year law students read appellate cases, and every appellate ...

The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends What's Wrong with Stereotyping? by Erin Beeghly. Here is a description: What's Wrong with Stereotyping? offers a refreshing and accessibly written philosophical ...

Simulating Human Surveys with LLMs by Johannes Kruse. Here is the abstract: This Comment shows how large language models (LLMs) can help courts discern the "ordinary meaning" of statutory ...

Steven Arrigg Koh (Boston University School of Law) has posted Why Did Prosecution Strengthen President Trump in the 2024 Election? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Why did criminal prosecution ...

Val Ricks (South Texas College of Law Houston) has posted Government By Chicken Bones, Precedent In Tea Leaves on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In our largely positivist, pyramid-shaped judicial systems ...

Michael Velchik (Harvard University) has posted Law As A Function Of Time on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Can a law change over time? This has been the central question of legal scholarship over the ...

Sherif Girgis (Notre Dame Law School) has posted The Abuses of History in Constitutional Interpretation on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Jack Balkin’s Memory and Authority powerfully describes the ...

Nancy B. Rapoport (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law) have posted I'll Be the Judge of That! on SSRN. Here is the ...

Nath Gunawardena (University of Colombo - Faculty of Law) has posted Surviving as the Fittest: Rethinking the Evolutionist Approach to Jurisprudence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Legal scholarship ...

Ahson Azmat (Kirkland & Ellis; Fordham University, School of Law) has posted Doing Things With Half-Truths on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The first rule of disclosure in contract and tort is that ...

Christopher Lewis (Harvard Law School) has posted The Weight of Police Violence on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Police presence deters violent crime; yet policing itself is violent, and officers ...

Mikkel Jarle Christensen has posted Belligerent Capital and Bare Agents: Dominance and Domination before, during, and after War on the Sage Journals website. Here is the abstract: This article ...