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, ...

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 ...