Aman Gebru (University of Houston Law Center) has posted Communal Authorship (University of Richmond Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:
A literary or artistic expression created by an individual author fits neatly in the copyright system. Many of the rules were developed with the sole author in mind. Thus, copyright law struggles…

James Grimmelmann (Cornell Law School; Cornell Tech) has posted The Structure and Legal Interpretation of Computer Programs (1 Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law no. 3, art. 19 (2023)) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:
This is an essay about the relationship between legal interpretation and software interpretation, and in particular about what we…

Stephen E. Sachs (Harvard Law School) has posted According to Law (Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:
What we ought to do, according to law, is not always what we ought to do, given the existence of law. Sometimes we merely wish to know what an existing…

Charles L. Barzun (University of Virginia School of Law) & John C. P. Goldberg (Harvard Law School) have posted Introduction: The Nature of the Judicial Process at 100 (Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:
This short essay introduces a symposium issue of the Yale Journal of Law and the…

David L. Sloss (Santa Clara University – School of Law) has posted Guns, Abortion, and Courts (Santa Clara Law Review, Vol. 56, (Forthcoming)) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:
The Supreme Court decided both Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and New York State Rifle v. Bruen in June 2022. Bruen involves gun rights and incorporation…

Paweł Niszczota (Poznań University of Economics and Business – Humans & AI Laboratory (HAI Lab)) & Paul Conway (University of Southampton) has posted Judgments of Research Co-Created by Generative AI: Experimental Evidence on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:
The introduction of ChatGPT has fueled a public debate on the use of generative AI (large language models;…

Kevin L. Cope (University of Virginia School of Law) has posted Experimental Studies on the Normative Force of Law on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:
An important question in legal theory and policy is when people are willing to put aside their policy preferences to uphold higher-order legal values. That is, when does constitutional or…