Introduction Law students begin to encounter the concept of a "standard of review" early in the first year. That's not surprising. First-year law students read appellate cases, and every appellate ...

Yonathan A. Arbel (University of Alabama - School of Law) has posted The Silicon Reasonable Person: Can AI Predict How People Judge Reasonableness? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In everyday life, ...

Ellen D. Katz (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Curbing Private Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act: Thoughts On Recent Developments on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For decades, private ...

Johannes Kruse (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) has posted The Ordinary Meaning Bot: Simulating Human Surveys with LLMs on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Comment shows how ...

Hassan Mustafa Hussein (Soran University) has posted Three Decades Without a Social Contract: A Call for Constitutional Adoption in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on SSRN. Here is the abstract: After ...

Michael L. Smith (University of Oklahoma - College of Law) has posted Ethics and Originalism (16 St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics (Forthcoming 2026)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: ...

Jonathan Crowe (University of Southern Queensland - School of Law and Justice) has posted Natural Law (in John Linarelli (ed), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy (Edward Elgar, ...

Stuart Ford (University of Illinois Chicago School of Law) has posted We the People of the United States: The Source of the Constitution's Authority on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Preamble is ...

Brian Lipshutz (University of Chicago - Law School) has posted Bypassing Agency Adjudication on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article examines the contested practice of bypassing agency ...

Sebastian Lewis (University of Surrey) has posted Precedent on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This entry explains the concept and practice of precedent in law. It distinguishes between binding and ...

Pamela Barmash (Washington University) has posted Role of the Posek (Rabbinic Decisor) in Halakhah (Jewish Law) (Hesed V’Emet Nashaku: Loving Kindness and Truth Embraced The Life and Thought of Rabbi ...

Jonathan Crowe (University of Southern Queensland - School of Law and Justice) has posted The Evolution of Natural Law (in Wojciech Zaluski, Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde and Adam Dyrda (eds), Research ...