Alexandra Lahav

@alahav.bsky.social

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Law professor at Cornell
Subjects: litigation risk, torts, civil procedure

https://www.alexandralahav.com/

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AkivaMCohen

I love your commitment to meritocracy

Suppose the Supreme Court is expanded to 13 Justices x 4 clerks each = 52/year. Does this do anything to the prestige of the clerkship? Just as fancy? 30% less fancy?

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Prof. Shirley Lin

Most breaks from the 1990s are promising, I think....

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Corey Rayburn Yung

Yeah I think it positioned itself as contra liberalism, but I guess you could play with the definitions ... At least during the 1990s

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, noting the theory has long roots elsewhere, says: "modern-day communitarianism began in the upper reaches of Anglo-American academia in the form of a critical reaction to John Rawls’ landmark 1971 book A Theory of Justice (Rawls 1971)."

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Sam Brunson

I had a colleague who was able to connect every workshop paper to tax. It was kind of awesome.

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Jacob T. Levy

Impeachment?

Back in 2006 Andrew Siegel wrote an article called The Court Against the Courts: Hostility to Litigation as an Organizing Theme in the Rehnquist Court's Jurisprudence. Now I think we can say whose ever court this is -- is it still a Roberts court? -- it's a litigation promoting court.

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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.

Orly Lobel The Equality Machine is one pro-AI book I'm sure you already know it

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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.

I would go on SSRN and search AI. There's a lot of new work on AI + [some legal doctrine]. None of it mine!

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Alexandra Lahav

Justice Thomas concurred in Loper Bright to say that Chevron was unconstitutional, but the Roberts majority opinion is unclear about that question. I probe the matter on the blog in a new essay.

Could Congress Reinstate <i>Chevron</i>?www.dorfonlaw.org Dissenting from today's ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo , Justice Kagan argued that the majority failed to make a case that a...

To whomever is writing the Harvard Law Review Foreword: The theme should be the irony of rules creating unpredictability.

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Corey Rayburn Yung

Excellent side effects: Your hair will grow! (Thalidomide is a hair growth medicine now)

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Corey Rayburn Yung

Rabbit's foot?

This is going to be a great opportunity to test my less regulation = more tort thesis.

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Kieran Healy

Daubert *waves*

Just putting this here for no reason en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G....

John G. Rowland - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

I don't know if this will pass but doctrinally I wish design defect had more purchase rather than labeling as the gravamen of many products claims. www.agriculture.com/house-farm-b...

House farm bill would shield Bayer from Roundup lawsuitswww.agriculture.com Tucked into the horticulture section of the farm bill approved by the House Agriculture Committee is language shielding seed and ag chemical giant Bayer from lawsuits against its Roundup weedkiller.

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Does a securities class action's outcome hinge on which shareholder firm handles the case? A study found that top-tier firms invest more time and money into their cases but don’t get better results. Robbins Geller says its latest mega settlement proves otherwise. reut.rs/3VI62Hg

How law firm Robbins Geller won $434 mln post-dismissal settlement with Under Armourreut.rs Does the outcome of a securities class action hinge on which shareholder firm is handling the case?

Once again, your torts exam writes itself

Save it for the evidence file at the trial.

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Omri Marian

Seriously this is a good question....but the one thing I *definitely* am not is a philosopher

Come to think of it I think I'm mostly here for your feed and a few others....

A great analysis by @dorfonlaw.bsky.social on Dept of State v Munoz, procedural and substantive due process. If you're a civ pro prof and teach Lassiter, this post is worth reading!

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Omri Marian

Greenblatt, the object of discussion. Did not know who he is or past things he has said.

Who is this person?

The best part is the parenthetical (they do not).

"Yolo!"

I'm going with Gen Cyborg

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Corey Rayburn Yung

What is your opinion of Gen z then?