@david__simon Not much, I'm trying to work on it though to achieve better law-review placements. I write about legal reasoning, which is ALWAYS important, but it's not clear whether current events make it more salient from time to time.
🚨 new paper alert! Algorithmic Governance from the Bottom Up was just published in the
@BYULRev. It looks at the critical role of labor and movements for social and racial justice in resisting and reshaping algorithmic governance. a brief 🧵 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4054640
New year, new gig. I'm so happy to announce I'll be joining the wonderful faculty of
@SMULawSchool
this fall as an Assistant Professor of Law, teaching Internet Law, Trademark, and Data Privacy. #ponyup
[https://twitter.com/SMULawSchool/status/1612511121910693889]
grouchy yet again that AALS is so hostile to parents. no childcare. no remote participation. nothing!! this really matters, people! https://www.science.org/content/article/are-conferences-providing-enough-child-care-support-we-decided-find-out
My paper, Christa J. Laser, Rethinking Patent Law's Exclusive Appellate Jurisdiction, 71 Clev. St. L. Rev. 19 (2022), was just published. It is available on SSRN here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4313817
I discuss exclusive jurisdiction for patent appeals and propose a new national court of appeals, as recommended by the Hruska Commission in the 1970s.
@ConMoot You might also like https://www.docketbird.com as an alternative to PACER. One thing I'd like to see @flp (the builders of #RECAP) add to their extension is an automatic upload of briefs I view or download in DocketBird.
@ConMoot If you have the #RECAP #BrowserExtension, any court document you download from #PACER will get added to the RECAP database, which (unlike PACER) is free to use. It requires no effort on your part and provides a public service. https://free.law/recap
@MarshaGriggs For some help to simplify #Zotero, I suggest that you check out University of Hawaii's library guide: https://law-hawaii.libguides.com/TLC_Research_Writing/Zotero
To get a basic understanding of #Juris-M (a version of Zotero specificly for law), check out this Cornell law library page: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/zotero-for-legal-references. It links to video tutorials from Georgetown's law library (I don't use Juris-M myself so I cannot vouch for it.)
While you are at it, thank god for #librarians. 2/2
@MarshaGriggs OK, full disclosure: I LOVE #Zotero for managing works cited for projects and for doing #citations in #APA and #MLA format. Frankly, if we all just used one of these formats (plus pincite in each case) for #LegalScholarship, the world would be a better place. When I use Zotero, I use it just to generate a first draft of a Bluebook citation, which I then edit. 1/2
@aaron_bruhl @jessecross Very eager to see this research on #SSRN (and happy to provide feedback, if you are looking for it). Looking deeper into how #briefs and #courts use #LegalAuthorities in their arguments is my jam. Links to my 2021 and 2022 papers on that below. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3814925 & https://ssrn.com/abstract=3540538
#argumentation #LegalWriting #TeamRhetoric #LegalPhilosophy
Can I boast about the California Law Review publishing a symposium issue dedicated to an article I wrote a few years ago, #AgainstProsecutors, with scholars I've long admired engaging with my ideas? I feel honored, humbled, and for some reason old. I'm not (that) old, BTW.
@Gedankenstein @jsherkow This seems viable. It does not help law students, though, as MS Word is the lingua franca in law practice. The really need to know hot to wrangle Word.
#Introduction. #Taxprof at #NorthwesternLaw. Main project: working w/a group to create a domain-specific programming language for tax law.
I like (a) making various kinds of info/tools available to everyone for free and (b) coding. Best: using (b) to do (a).
Misc: Adore my dog but am obsessed w/my cat. Lawprof hero is @jtlg. Love public transp. esp. CTA. 2023 goal: learn Haskell.
More on projects:
https://sites.northwestern.edu/sarahlawsky/websites/
(Just moved main account to lawprofs server. Thank you @jnsheff!)
@Matthew I’d add: Tell us why the (dis)similarity is legally (ir)relevant. This is true at least for law-school exams and writing assignments. For practice writing, they should KNOW why (dis)sims are (ir)relevant but may not express that knowledge in all situations (given word and page limits, rhetorical constraints, etc) #LegalWriting #argumentation