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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. Charles Pigden's avatar

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

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

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Some Law School News That Might Interest Some Philosophers (Leiter)

The other Brian Leiter has a couple of items that might interest some philosophy readers.  One is a list of visiting law professors at the very top law schools this coming academic year (which includes a few folks known to philosophically-minded readers, such as Martha Nussbaum, Cass Sunstein, Andrew Koppelman, and Leslie Green, among others); there is, as one can see, a very active "visiting professor" culture in American law schools.  The other is some new data on which schools produce the most clerks for Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court.  The continuing rightward tilt of the Court is proving a boon for some conservative religious schools, like Notre Dame and BYU, that did not, historically, graduate many clerks.

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