Legal Innovation
Access to justice, legal technology, alternative business structures, and the future of law.
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Why Technology Is Replacing Employment
Transaction cost economics explains why technology makes contracting cheaper than employing — and what that means for labor law.
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Why the Supreme Court Made Crypto Legislation Inevitable
Loper Bright eliminated Chevron deference. Agencies can no longer fill gaps in securities law through interpretation. Only Congress can provide a stable framework.
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Why CLE Doesn't Work (and How to Fix It)
Continuing legal education measures hours watched, not learning achieved. The social value is likely negative.
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Why Big Companies Secretly Love Regulation
Regulatory compliance costs function like economies of scale in reverse. Red tape is a competitive moat for incumbents.
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Unbundling Employment: A Better Way to Classify Gig Workers
The employee/contractor binary is broken. A 'Form GW' modeled on securities law could fix it.
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Twitter and the Future of Shareholder Activism
Social media solves the collective action problems that have paralyzed shareholder democracy since 1942.
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The Temporal Paradox: When a Security Stops Being a Security
A token that starts as a security can mature into something else entirely. The Supreme Court's 80-year-old test has no answer for this.
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The Paradox of Valuing Trade Secrets
How do you calculate royalties for a secret whose value depends on no one knowing what it is?
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Law and Governance: The Missing Variable
Law changes institutions constantly. It rarely asks what those institutions do. Governance is the variable legal analysis has been missing.
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Judgment Proof: When Compliance Replaces Wisdom
Modern institutions have engineered out the faculty of judgment. When no one judges, no one can be held to account for the assessments that were never made.