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A common problem 1Ls have with their exams (and therefore their grades) is not understanding the role of analysis in answers. They often won't entirely get what analysis is, and why it's the most important part of an answer.
I thought I would explain how I see it. (Thread.)
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A promising way for law schools to identify good lateral faculty candidates, I think, is for schools to ask those who recently lateraled: Among your former colleagues, at your former school, who on the faculty are considered the top scholars? It's good insider info.
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A letter from Ron Hassner to students at UC Berkeley.
"Dear students,
I have hatched a strange plan. I am launching a sit-in protest against antisemitism and for student safety in my office, starting today, Thursday, March 7, at 6PM. If my students feel that they cannot walk safely across campus without being bullied, then I will not cross campus either. I will be conducting all my classes via zoom from now on. I have invited my colleagues to do likewise.
I will stay in my office until we take necessary steps to prevent violence between students. I will teach, eat, and sleep in my office. My office will be open at all hours of the day and night, on weekdays and weekends, to all students who do not feel safe, or who have been subjected to antisemitic abuse, or who wish to chat. I will also leave a light on in my office window at all times, so that all students walking by on Bancroft Ave. can see that at least one faculty member is sleeping as badly at night as they are.
In contrast to recent protests, my protest is non-confrontational, non-violent, and legal. It will be easy to ignore, especially in the first few weeks before visitors and media find me and my office in a rather disheveled state. After that, it will become an increasingly embarrassing public display of the university’s inability to make difficult and important decisions.
I am pessimistic that this will sway the administration, certainly in the short term. I am willing to wait it out for as long as I can. But the main reason I am doing this is not to exert indirect pressure on campus leaders. Rather, it is to signal to you students that we, the faculty, care. I am backed in my protest by many colleagues who share my commitment to making you all feel safe and cared-for on our campus, first and foremost among them Ethan Katz.
And I mean what I write in the letter to Carol Christ and Ben Hermalin: I hope that students will see the light in my window on the 7th floor of the Social Science Building, and will come to say hello. I am launching 24-hour a day office hours, weekends included, for as long as it takes. I would love to hear your stories and share a cup of coffee or tea with you.
Best,
Professor Ron Hassner of UC Berkeley"
Tom Baker retweeted
>600k dead in the syrian civil war
~370,000 dead in yemen's war
150,000-1,000,000 estimated dead in the iraq war
meanwhile, nytimes editor getting their news directly from tiktok:
Tom Baker retweeted
i feel like the handwritten SQL was often just a distilled version of a product manager's plain english, written into a JIRA textbox, as interpreted by a software engineer or data scientist... why couldn't an LLM do a similarly good job translating a plain-english request to SQL?
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LLM models like GPT-4 have huge potential to enable consumers to understand & compare complex contracts like insurance policies. Consumer protection law should facilitate this use of AI, as markets may not do so enough given the positive externalities involved.
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Might generative AI substantially reduce the risk of misinformation campaigns by making it obvious that only text, video, and audio released by reputable intermediaries is trustworthy?
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Last week this got finally published!
The book is based on my PhD research, which started nearly 7 years ago when I first set foot in Edinburgh as a master student and became interested in a topic I never expected I would become interested in. 1/6
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What is moral hazard and how does it relate to the Silicon Valley Bank failure? Tom Baker, a CHIBE affiliate, explains. marketplace.org/2023/03/16/m…
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What a pleasure it was to talk about insurance discrimination w/r/t the use of preventive medicine at @TheAALS panel on Insurance Law & Social Justice (by the Insurance Law Section) alongside @valblakewvulaw @christina_s_ho @kvukadin & @AlexLemann! #AALS2023 photo cred @AsafLubin
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Excited that my new article, 'The Color of Property Insurance: Time for Change' just out in 49 Fla. St. L. Rev. 203 (2022) is up on SSRN! bit.ly/3R4DAMb. Examines past racist insurance exclusions, federal intervention that helped some, & argues for concrete reforms.
Tom Baker retweeted
What a privilege to speak at the Texas Chief Public Defenders Conference today and use MCDO defense teams as shining examples of courage, meaning, and impact in the fight against injustice.
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I also want to scream from the tops of rooftops (for the five people who understand the importance of this announcement): little Native girl dreams fulfilled, I get to rewrite the Cohen’s Indian Law Handbook chapter on federal power! Unbelievable luck and an unbelievable job.
Jewish passengers accuse Lufthansa of discrimination for flight ban. In 2022????? washingtonpost.com/travel/20…
The insurance underwriting strikes again! The only thing different this time is that insurers have a new scapegoat: the pandemic.
Des polices d’assurance « intenables » pourraient réduire à néant les salles de spectacle. #assurance #culture #polqc bit.ly/31d4PPN
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An event to look forward to.
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Christoph Brömmelmeyer
Ulrike Mönnich
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Check out Penn Law grad Adam Zuckerman's cutting edge article on Insuring Crypto Assets. ssrn.com/abstract=3756619
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Raphael Warnock is speaking now, and just honored his mother:
“Because this is America, the 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else’s cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States Senator.”
