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Law Prof, University of Virginia. Taboo and repugnant markets, contracts, business law. Host of the Taboo Trades podcast https://tabootrades.buzzsprout.com https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/kdk4q/1181653
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Random article endorsement: Charles Barzun, Inside-Out: Beyond the Internal/External Distinction in Legal Scholarship, Va L Rev (2015). Parts are inside-baseball, but it's probably the most useful, accessible piece I've read on the internal/external distinction in law.

An excellent choice! @oglesby.bsky.social

Is medical aid in dying a civil right, or a civil wrong? (AKA assisted suicide, or death with dignity.) And what about the details? #medicine #death marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/medi...

“The NCAA will pay nearly $2.8 billion in back damages over the next 10 years to athletes who competed in college at any time from 2016 through present day”

Normalize answering "Why do you want this job?" with "Because I don’t currently have a job."

Organ donation from deceased donors relies on the assurance that the donor's death was in no way hastened by the subsequent donation. Today's NYT has a report suggesting that careful guidelines were sometimes almost breached. #medicine #transplants #death

Another paper on LLMs and law school exam performance, this one from a team at ETH Zürich

Elon should just give Harvard $2 billion.

yeah sex is great but have you ever followed the great Musk-Trump battle

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Join me in Denver next week at the Cannabis Law Institute! shaygilmorelaw.com/shay-moderat...

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Mitu Gulati @uvalaw.bsky.soci and Juan Flores found a cool letter in the Rothschild’s archive First evidence of ESG interest by bond investors? Read the piece on.ft.com/3Z0x5jK Ür-ESG, Brazil and the Rothschilds

Interesting piece from @jadler1969.bsky.social

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Update 6/1: Here is a database that tracks legal decisions in cases "where generative AI produced hallucinated content – typically fake citations, but also other types of arguments." As of today it includes 129 decisions. www.thefacultylounge.org/2025/06/ai-i...

"The study revealed limited knowledge regarding legal restrictions on kidney donation, with only 9.8% aware that non-related persons cannot donate kidneys according to the law, and a mere 4.9% knowing that financial compensation for donation is illegal.”

After reading the article, I believe the intended meaning is that the woman who was arrested formerly resided in Franklin.

@zclopton.bsky.social is the very best - very happy for Northwestern! 💜

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My op-ed in the Atlantic this morning with Mila Versteeg was originally called “Why American Democracy is Harder to Break.” And I really do believe that’s true. But as we say in the article, that can’t be an excuse for complacency.

“This generation of Gen Z, 18 to 28—it’s not a hookup generation. They don’t drink as much alcohol, they don’t have as much sex,” he told investors this month. “We need to adapt our products to accept that reality.” #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/tind...

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Online auction site withdrew a painting just before bidding closed. The last bidder had offered “Very Well Done Painting of Ships in Port - Signed ‘Vincent’ - Circa 1880-90 (painting). Did seller breach a duty to sell her a Van Gogh for $215? lawprofessors.typepad.com/contractspro...

I put things that will take 30 seconds to do so that I can do them & immediately have a list w/ 5 things scratched off. (1) get soda from fridge, (2) open can, (3) drink from soda, (4) open laptop

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Thanks Joey.