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Yes! “The Elements of AI” is a series of free online courses (all of which are available here) created by the University of Helsinki and Reaktor. According to the official website for the Elements of AI, these courses combine theory … Continue reading →

[Review of “Jerks, zombie robots, and other philosophical misadventures” (MIT Press, 2019) by Eric Schwitzgebel.] Professor Schwitzgebel’s beautiful new book (pictured below and available here via the MIT Press) consists of 58 short philosophical reflections. Like a modern-day Montaigne, Schwitzgebel … Continue reading →

That is the title of my latest paper, which was published in Volume 9 of the Journal of Law, available here (via the Journal of Legal Metrics) or here (via SSRN). In summary, my paper contributes to the literature on … Continue reading →

Alas, my Christmas break ends early this year (I resume my teaching duties on Monday, Jan. 6). In the meantime, here is a subset of what I have been (or will be) reading over the holiday season (in addition to … Continue reading →

In this post, I will conclude my extended review of Altwicker & Diggelmann’s helpful taxonomy of legal progress. The fourth and final method they identify is what they call “paradigm shift-talk,” which in turn is based on the influential work … Continue reading →

Let’s proceed with our extended review of Altwicker & Diggelmann’s taxonomy of legal progress–i.e. their systematic classification of the various ways in which legal scholars make up stories about legal progress, to be more precise. In addition to the use … Continue reading →

Merry Chrismukkah! As I mentioned in a previous post, Tilmann Altwicker (Basel) and Oliver Diggelmann (Zurich) have identified four ways in which the ideal of progress is “socially-constructed” in the field of international law, beginning with the crude method of … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday, so I am interrupting my series of blog posts on the “social construction of legal progress” to share this creative end-of-year “movie trailer mashup” (hat tip: Kottke). I will resume my review of progress in law on Monday … Continue reading →