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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…

  5. A in the UK's avatar
  6. 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,…

  7. Craig Duncan's avatar

Six legal scholars elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

They are:  Christopher Eisgruber (Princeton), Vicki Jackson (Harvard), David Luban (Georgetown), George Priest (Yale), Bryan Stevenson (NYU), and John Witt (Yale).

UPDATE:  You can see a breakdown of all newly elected Fellows by institutional affiliation here.

ADDENDUM:  I should note that the philosopher Gary Watson, who is cross-appointed to the law faculty at the University of Southern California, and who has done seminal work on freedom of the will and moral responsibility, was also elected a Fellow this year.  (USC has a top ten philosophy department these days, as well as an excellent law school.)

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