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  1. Mark Robert Taylor's avatar

    At the risk of self-advertising:… You claim “AI is unusual in degree, not in kind” and “It is not clear…

  2. F.E. Guerra-Pujol's avatar

    Apropos of Sagar’s wish to foist the A.I. industry by its own petard, this article appeared in print in yesterday’s…

  3. Claudio's avatar

    I teach both large courses, like Jurisprudence and Critical Legal Thinking (a.k.a Legal Argumentation), and small seminar-based courses at Edinburgh…

  4. Charles Pigden's avatar

    Surely there is an answer to the problem of AI cheating which averts the existential threat. . It’s not great,…

  5. Mark's avatar

    I’d like to pose a question. Let’s be pessimistic for the moment, and assume AI *does* destroy the university, at…

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  7. Jonathan Turner's avatar

    I agree with all of this. The threat is really that stark. The only solution is indeed in-class essay exams,…

Legal Philosopher Shapiro from Cardozo to Michigan

Legal philosopher Scott Shapiro at Cardozo Law School has accepted the offer from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he will teach in both the Law School and Department of Philosophy.  (He also had an offer from the University of Virginia.)  Those who don’t know Scott’s work ought to make a point of reading his splendid paper "On Hart’s Way Out," 4 Legal Theory 469 (1998) (also in Hart’s Postscript, ed. J.L. Coleman [Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2001]), probably the most significant contribution to the literature on legal positivism in the last decade or so.

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