December 4, 2025
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Gregory S. McNeal (Pepperdine University – Rick J. Caruso School of Law) has posted The Right To Compute on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In 2025, legislatures across the United States introduced more than one thousand bills seeking to regulate artificial intelligence, ranging from bans on algorithmic “medical advice” to pre-clearance regimes for model developers. While
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Crescente Molina (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – Rutgers Law School) has posted Review of Wrongs and Rights Come Apart (HUP, 2025), by Nicolas Cornell (Forthcoming, Mind (2025-26)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Wrongs and Rights Come Apart (HUP, 2025), Nicolas Cornell challenges what we may call the “wrongs-entail-rights” thesis, according to
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Wendy E. Wagner (University of Texas at Austin – School of Law) has posted Unreliable Science in the Courtroom: Shifting the Courts’ Focus from Assessing the Substance of an Expert’s Analysis to the Process by which it was Produced (JUDICIAL POLICY MAKING, EMPIRICAL DATA AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE (ROB VAN GESTEL, JURGEN DE POORTER AND EDWARD RUBIN
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Philip Hamburger (Columbia University – Law School) has posted No Rights for Deportees? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In 1785, three “Algerians” arrived in Virginia. Although they are long forgotten, their fate remains illuminating about deportation. The constitutional status of deportees is a puzzle. Lawfully visiting foreigners are widely acknowledged to enjoy constitutional rights. Yet
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Kevin L. Cope (University of Virginia School of Law), Jens Frankenreiter (Washington University in St. Louis – School of Law), Scott Hirst (Boston University – School of Law; European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)), Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago – Law School), Daniel Schwarcz (University of Minnesota Law School) & Dane Thorley (Brigham Young University
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Visa Kurki (University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law) & Paulina Siemieniec (Queen’s University) have posted Towards An Agency Turn in Animal Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The article proposes an agency turn in animal law, following in the footsteps of the political agency turn in animal ethics. The law currently operates on the assumption that