The debate over birthright citizenship has focused on the words "subject to the jurisdiction." But the Constitution's answer isn't hiding in those five words alone — it's woven throughout the entire document. A thread on @dcarolinanunez and my new paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

Shout it from the rooftops!!! Research is thinking. Outlining is thinking. Writing is thinking. Any portion of that done by AI is less thinking done by you.

If AI does your research when do you do your thinking

The first criminal case of streaming fraud where a North Carolina musician who used AI to make songs, then streamed them billions of times himself making $8 million

An attorney writes to me about the mostly AI-written law review article he had accepted this spring, now forthcoming in the flagship law review of a Top 50 law school. A draft of the article is now up on SSRN. According to the attorney: " Last month I used Claude to assist in drafting a new article . . . . I drafted this article in about 15 hours. In 2022 I published an article of similar length that took around 150 hours." The attorney adds: "I used Claude the way I’d use a junior associate—as a first drafter, sounding board, and research assistant. Most of the article, including the entirety of the title, abstract, and intro, is mine from the keyboard up. And anything Claude contributed that made it to the final version is there because I reviewed it, agreed with it, and chose to sign my name to it. This is no different than how I’d review an associate’s draft and then take responsibility for the finished product." The attorney adds: "That first draft was by no means file ready, but it was better than what I would’ve received from the vast majority of BigLaw associates. I was blown away, and have since started my own appellate and litigation practice in an effort to replicate these productivity gains for client work." Your thoughts? I know the attorney's name, and the journal, and I have checked out the article, but I figured that, at least for now, I would hold that back.

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Proud to announce that my article “The First Amendment and Constitutive Rhetoric: A Policy Proposal” (coauthored with Mason Spedding) received the Order of the Coif’s 2025 Lolly Gasaway Faculty-Student Writing Award! Check it out here: nyulawreview.org/issues/volu…