Legal Humor
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Back when Larry Solum did parody SSRN postings on April Fool’s Day
This one, from 2010, led me to get requests for several years afterwards for the "paper"! I'm sorry he gave it up, I thought they were almost always very funny.
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Article on whether U.S. legal system is ready for “the challenges of AI to human values” includes citations that appear to have been made up by Chat GPT (link fixed)
Law professors may find this amusing. (Link fixed)
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Even if Yale Law may not be #1 in USNews.com rankings much longer…
…it will still #1 for graduates convicted of seditious conspiracy! I would love to see Mr. Rhodes's application file!
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Amy Wax, “color consultant”
This designer can't be happy with the notoriety of her namesake's obsession with a different kind of "color." (Thanks to Curtis Franks for the pointer.)
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“Alan Dershowitz Chair in Public Outreach”
At Harvard Law School, no less: THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL invites applications for the position of Alan Dershowitz Chair in Public Outreach. Position will commence August 2022. The Law School welcomes applications from scholars in all subject areas of the law. However, knowledge of the law is not required. Strong applicants must be willing to seek…
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“The Originalist Case for Inciting Insurrection” courtesy of the Stanford Federalist Society
UPDATE: Stanford relents. (The Stanford Law Dean has also sent a message to alumni noting that the Law School had nothing to do with this travesty.) The Stanford Law student responsible for this very funny satire is now under investigation by Stanford, and his graduation is endangered! What an embarrassment for Stanford! (Thanks to Jeremy…
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US News releases yet a 4th “corrected” ranking, retracting the one issued on Tuesday!
According to a statement from US News.com editor Bob Morse: Tuesday afternoon, after the rankings had been released, the Oracle of Delphi got in touch to inform us that per capita expenditures had been given too much weight in the formula, and had to be reduced by 5.731 percentage points, which were to be redistributed…
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“I’m not a cat,” lawyer assures judge
Just in case any readers missed this, here's the NYT account of this funny Zoom mishap. Here's the video clip of the hearing:
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“Farmer’s intent”
That's not a typo. Important insights from legal philosopher Leslie Green (Oxford & Queen's U).
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“If liquor stores are essential, why isn’t church?”
So ask Michael McConnell (Stanford) and Max Raskin (Adjunct, NYU) in a recent NYT op-ed. I confess I hadn't expected Professor McConnell to hold the Marxist view that religion is the opium (or liquor) of the people, but that aside, I would have thought the answer was obvious: people can practice their religion without going…
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“Please reject me: an Open Letter to the Harvard Law Review”
Mark Lemley (Stanford) kindly shared this quite amusing open letter: Please Reject Me An Open Letter to the Harvard Law Review The Harvard Law Review has rejected my articles in the past. A lot. Indeed,…
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Why the increase in law school applications?
The Onion has the answer.
David J. Gunkel «Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond» (MIT, 2023) Link:…