Introduction Law students begin to encounter the concept of a "standard of review" early in the first year. That's not surprising. First-year law students read appellate cases, and every appellate ...

David A. Simon (Northeastern University School of Law) has posted Monastic Moral Rights on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Copyright law grants authors special non-economic “moral rights” to prevent ...

Yonathan A. Arbel (University of Alabama - School of Law) has posted The Silicon Reasonable Person: Can AI Predict How People Judge Reasonableness? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In everyday life, ...

Ellen D. Katz (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Curbing Private Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act: Thoughts On Recent Developments on SSRN. Here is the abstract: For decades, private ...

Johannes Kruse (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) has posted The Ordinary Meaning Bot: Simulating Human Surveys with LLMs on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Comment shows how ...

Hassan Mustafa Hussein (Soran University) has posted Three Decades Without a Social Contract: A Call for Constitutional Adoption in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on SSRN. Here is the abstract: After ...

Jonathan Crowe (University of Southern Queensland - School of Law and Justice) has posted Natural Law (in John Linarelli (ed), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Theory and Philosophy (Edward Elgar, ...

Michael L. Smith (University of Oklahoma - College of Law) has posted Ethics and Originalism (16 St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics (Forthcoming 2026)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: ...

Stuart Ford (University of Illinois Chicago School of Law) has posted We the People of the United States: The Source of the Constitution's Authority on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The Preamble is ...

Sebastian Lewis (University of Surrey) has posted Precedent on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This entry explains the concept and practice of precedent in law. It distinguishes between binding and ...

Brian Lipshutz (University of Chicago - Law School) has posted Bypassing Agency Adjudication on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This Article examines the contested practice of bypassing agency ...

Pamela Barmash (Washington University) has posted Role of the Posek (Rabbinic Decisor) in Halakhah (Jewish Law) (Hesed V’Emet Nashaku: Loving Kindness and Truth Embraced The Life and Thought of Rabbi ...