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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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    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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    My big problem with LLMs at the present time, apart from being potentially the epitome of Foucault’s panopticon & Big…

Paul Campos admits he doesn’t “even [know] what it means” to think like a lawyer

This probably explains a lot.  Fortunately, Fred Schauer has recently written a book that could help him with his questions, like, "What does it mean to teach people to think like lawyers?  How is thinking like a lawyer different from ordinary thinking?" 

(Thanks to Nick Smith for the pointer.)

UPDATE:  A senior legal academic, who has been involved extensively with legal education reform, writes:  "Keep up the Campos bashing.  I think that some of the law school critics have done a good service.  Even when I don't agree with everything, it was necessary for legal educators to give up a bit of complacency.  I've never met Campos, but he is disgraceful."  It's hard to disagree with any of that, but I don't really plan to keep up the "bashing," since, as we saw a few weeks back, by Campos's own admission, there really isn't much content to his routine. 

 

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