The Trump admin is discussing charging patent owners 1%-5% of the patent's value instead of the current system of 3 flat-fee payments over roughly a decade. (Unclear whether this would be levied periodically or would be a one-time payment.) One problem with this proposal is

On the contrary, AI-generated writing should be celebrated because it frees us from the burden of producing bullshit & allows us to focus on being creative. The only problem is that we really like producing bullshit.

Incentives matter. 🤗

Ouch.

This guy is hilarious.

What makes a map “fair”? nytimes.com/2025/07/30/us/…

You’re supposed to call them “expert witnesses.” But seriously, this story is fucking wild.

IMO students are customers just like clients are customers. They are paying for a service. The principal-agent problem is that they don't always know how to evaluate the quality of the service. That's why lawyers have fiduciary duties. Maybe professors should too?

What I enjoyed reading this month: networklawreview.org/july-2025/.

Talk about niche scamming.

Some excerpts from my newest work, Regulation Without Remedy. Every current law student should know about the legal blind spot that prevents bar applicants from recovery when bar authorities make damaging mistakes. 👀 Journal Editors 👀

lol pleading the elements of the defense.

They have seen the enemy & it is them.

Anecdotally, I'm noticing that studies that document some form of injustice get more citations (and awards) than those that don't (or rather don't look/test for inequality but focus on less salient, more morally neutral issues). I'm super curious if that holds up if one were to

Couldn’t agree more. However, the fact that student law review editors often don’t seem to recognize the difference between circumstances when a citation is necessary/helpful & when it isn’t is troubling & we should teach them. It would make everyone’s lives easier.

An observation: The easier it becomes to produce conventional works, the harder it becomes to create novel works.

The democrats should just let these people become republicans already.

Bolex.