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

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

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Annals of Academic Pettiness

Brian Leiter

MOVING TO FRONT FROM APRIL 19:  SEE UPDATE

This really takes the prize.  I do find it hard to believe that anyone gives any credence to (or could care about) anonymous Amazon reviews of scholarly books.

(Thanks to David Fraser for the pointer.)

UPDATE:  As several readers have pointed out, this saga has now gotten even more pathetic.  It really does look like a mental health issue at this point.  A shame.

AND STILL MORE SORDID details here.  The case is also yet more evidence of the pathologies of English libel law.

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