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We are excited to introduce the hiring of a historic class of professors at Michigan Law. 20 professors in all, they bring a tremendous range of expertise and experience to our community. Story: michigan.law.umich.edu/news/michigan-… A 🧵introducing each of our new faculty members:

Matterhorn's online dispute resolution platform allows courts to offer an online option to the public to handle civil infractions, disputes, warrants and other cases. See what #ODR can do for your court or agency: buff.ly/3sqsVR3

Powerful concepts everyone should know (to understand the world):

How One State Resisted Political Extremism — Against All Odds nytimes.com/2022/09/07/opi…

This is important work by Andrea Garnero Tito Boeri and Lorenzo G. Luisetto. Noncompetes have drawn so much attention in the US. But not in Europe. Why? Probably a lack of data. This work shows that many of the same issues related to noncompetes in the US arise in Italy too.

Check out Bryan Borodkin's really wonderful note. Congrats! repository.law.umich.edu/mjlr/vol55/iss…

It was so great to have the talk by Eli Savit and Victoria Burton-Harris with an introduction by J.J. Prescott as part of the #UMPovertySolutions in the series today!

Economics is in something of a #metoo moment, with a number of women coming forward (and naming names) with some very disturbing revelations of sexual harassment and sexual misconduct by senior male economists. See Jennifer Doleac's timeline for a blow-by-blow of each revelation.

TFW President Donald J. Trump cites numbers from your research (with Norm Bishara and J.J. Prescott) in the State of the Union Address. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

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I’m pleased to announce that my latest article, Collusive Prosecution, with J.J. Prescott Michigan Law School, has been published by the Iowa Law Review. We use a public fiduciary framework to examine the prosecutorial ethics of certain fictional plea bargains. ilr.law.uiowa.edu/sites/ilr.law.…

It’s gorgeous outside. Join us for a (very) quick walk through the law campus

Changes in sanction severity from criminal age-of-majority impact employment and recidivism. Machine learning supports decomposing net regression discontinuity into mechanism-specific treatment effects, from Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈, Benjamin Pyle, and Caroline Walker nber.org/papers/w31523

AI and Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Artificial Intelligence Symposium Join us in person on Feb. 16 at Northwestern Law! Co-organized by the Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property and the Law and Technology Initiative. Register:

There's something magical about a snowy day in the Law Quad

Criminal consequences should be based on what someone did, not who they are. That's why we partnered with external researchers on the Prosecutor Transparency Project—which released its report on racial disparities in prosecutorial decisionmaking today: myumi.ch/23NQ4 /1

First Evidence on the Use of Training Repayment Agreements in the US Labor Force promarket.org/2024/03/27/fir… via ProMarket

Professor J.J. Prescott has done considerable research into noncompete agreements, and the FTC extensively cited his work in first proposing the new rule banning them. Professor Prescott answers 5Qs on the implications of the new rule: michigan.law.umich.edu/news/5qs-presc…

2/ Prof. J.J. Prescott shared his research through the @washprosecutor Transparency Project, which showed racial disparities in warrant requests, charging decisions, & plea bargaining, w/ recommendations for better documentation & tracking of these processes to ensure fairness.