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 ...

IGNACIO ADRIAN LERER has posted The Legislator as Extended Phenotype: A Darwinian Theory of Legal Evolution on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Background: Legal theory often assumes legislators ...

Gaurav Mukherjee (University of Connecticut - School of Law; New York University School of Law; University of Melbourne - Asian Law Centre) has posted The Right to Education: Reconciling Liberty & ...

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 ...

Dr. Kamshad Mohsin (Maharishi University of Information Technology - School of Law) has posted Emerging Technologies and Islamic Laws: A Comparative Analysis of Prominent Islamic Jurisdictions on SSRN ...

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, ...

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 ...

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: ...