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

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

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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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In a USNews.com world, don’t confuse citation counts with quality

Brian Leiter

I assume this is obvious, but just in case let me say it:   citation counts have a very imperfect correlation with quality.  But in a world where law faculties are ranked by Bob Morse, an ignorant non-academic looking to make a living, we need alternative metrics that reflect what we in the legal academy actually do.  There are many first-rate scholars who are as good as any of those on the various lists I have been and will be posting but who didn't happen to make them; off the top of my head:  in law & philosophy, Mark Greenberg (UCLA) and Stephen Perry (Penn); in law & economics, Eric Talley (Columbia) and Abraham Wickelgren (Texas); in legal history, Risa Goluboff (Virginia) and Sally Gordon (Penn); in empirical legal studies, Anup Malani (Chicago) and Ed Morrison (Columbia); in administrative law, Anne O'Connell (Stanford) and Ed Rubin (Vanderbilt); and many others.

 

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