Prior studies have found that people perceive AI-led legal processes as less fair than human-led ones. This is the legal "human-AI fairness gap."

New studies (N = 7,651) discover that this gap is mitigated with even minimal human involvement in the AI process.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Grateful to Professor @lsolum.bsky.social for sharing our work - and for the "Download it while it's hot!" accolade!

Originalist debates often draw on historical analysis.

Yet in statutory cases, textualist decisions--and critiques of them--rarely draw on linguistics.

Linguistics can and should inform debates about textualism: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
(with @bwal.bsky.social)

Does anyone have an electronic copy of Bartsch (1973), "'Negative transportation' gibt es nicht" in Linguistische Berichte?

Currently accepting applications on a rolling basis! Postdoc in Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation, with a start date of Fall 2025. A great opportunity to work with the wonderful @complingy.bsky.social @kevintobia.bsky.social

Details here: apply.interfolio.com/170055

Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Experimental jurisprudence (or “X-Jur”) addresses questions of jurisprudence or legal philosophy by complementing traditional philosophical analysis with empirical methods. Often those methods…

Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) plato.stanford.edu/entries/expe...

John R. Ross - Wikipedia

RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....

📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑‍⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩‍⚖️🏛️⚖️ with @bwal.bsky.social , @complingy.bsky.social Amir Zeldes, and @kevintobia.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....