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How often is AI showing up in articles published by top law reviews?
In a guest post published on the Volokh Conspiracy, Julian Nyarko examines 571 articles from flagship law reviews at the top-ranked law schools, using estimates from Pangram’s AI detection software.
The study Read morefound that AI signals appeared more often in article text and abstracts than in footnotes, challenging assumptions about where AI might be used in legal scholarship.
The research raises questions that extend beyond detection: When does AI assistance become authorship? And what level of disclosure should academic publishing expect?
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Professor Jack Balkin did not come to Stanford Law with an uplifting Constitution Day message.
In a wide-ranging—and, by his own account, decidedly sobering—lecture, the Yale Law professor argued that new technologies are reshaping constitutional power, weakening democratic Read moreinstitutions, and accelerating what he calls “constitutional rot.”
Read more about Balkin’s Constitution Day talk at Stanford Law:
The federal government increasingly relies on private companies to govern: Palantir for foreign intelligence, Amazon for cloud computing, Starlink for
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As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, Stanford Continuing Studies is bringing together scholars from across the university to take stock of American democracy.
Stanford Law’s Nate Persily, Pamela Karlan, and Jonathan Gienapp are among the featured faculty for “Reimagining Read moreDemocracy,” a free six-week series open to the public and hosted by Stanford Dean Debra Satz and Professor Larry Diamond.
Speakers will tackle federalism, elections, voting rights, money in politics, public service, and what the 2026 midterms may tell us about the state of American democracy.
Gienapp kicks off the series Oct. 7 with a look at federalism from 1776 to 2026. Persily joins the Oct. 28 conversation on voting rights and electoral reform, and Karlan takes part Nov. 4 in a post-midterm discussion of what the early results reveal about the electorate and democratic institutions.
Learn more and register here: https://brnw.ch/21x5Y0x