jnsheff.bsky.social
Law professor. New Yorker. Co-author & admin, Open Source Property. Research and teaching focuses on IP and Technology Law, Property, and Legal Theory.
👤 Joined on 10 October 2023
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@jnsheff.bsky.social1. Our latest, Who Leads in Mass Litigation?, is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review. With an incredible interdisciplinary team, we took a multi-decade dive into the lawyers steering multidistrict litigation--which accounts for nearly 40% of all filed federal cases. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Show PostSheriffs are “the most important state(-level) race for immigration purposes,” says an attorney with the ACLU of Wisconsin. Some sheriff candidates in the state are hoping to end local cooperation agreements with ICE.
Show PostThis is a good example of how you need quite a lot of detail of how these systems *actually* work to understand what the risks are, and how over-indexing on sci-fi can lead you a bit astray on what the future looks like
Show PostGot access to the scanned digital copies of every single volume of statutory text for every state going back to colonial times. I used it to create a hybrid sqlite database with vector embedding allowing for semantic search. It's so cool and will be used for some amazing novel legal research.
Show PostStatutory diffusion will be trivial to run on this corpus. Basically, you can measure how statutory text spread from state to state over time and how the language evolved. This kind of work used to take years with a team of RAs. It can now be done in an afternoon.
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