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Trump the Vote?
Given the enormous increase in voter turnout during this year’s midterm elections, doesn’t President Trump deserve a lot of credit for this swell at the polls? (See chart below for average voter turnout rates in previous U.S. elections this century.) … Continue reading
November readings (updated)
In addition to our regular stream of scholarly readings (blog posts, book reviews, essays, law review articles, etc.), below are some of the books we are reading this month (updated 11/13): Tyler Cowen, Stubborn Attachments (Stripe). This will be a … Continue reading
Should Twitter kill the like button?
For our part, we say, Good Riddance! Here are some reasons why: Karissa Bell, “Why Facebook and Instagram [and Twitter] should kill the like button,” via Mashable. Liraz Margalit, “Our obsession with ‘like’ (part 1),” via Psychology Today. James Somers, … Continue reading
AI 1, human lawyers 0
Check out this report by Jonathan Marciano describing a fascinating experiment in which a group of corporate lawyers with decades of experience in business law competed against an artificial intelligence (AI) program called LawGeex. Their task was to spot issues … Continue reading

