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15 Aug 2020, 8:15 am by Michael Abramowicz
Prediction markets are generally an effective tool for aggregating opinions about the probability of various events, and I have argued that the legal system should rely on prediction markets for making probabilistic estimates. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 7:03 am by Michael Abramowicz
President Trump, unsurprisingly, has floated the idea of delaying the election. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 9:57 am by Michael Abramowicz
Jonathan Adler has written in favor of citing all authors' names in law review articles, joining a nascent movement. [read post]
23 Jul 2020, 3:19 pm by Michael Abramowicz
The QSIDE Institute has released a comprehensive dataset of federal court sentencing data, cobbled together from a number of sources, including PACER. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 10:20 am by Scott Fruehwald
ABA Journal, Several States Push Ahead With In-Person July Bar Exams, Despite COVID-19 Health Risks Michael Abramowicz (George Washington), Predictive Test Scores and Diploma Privilege California Supreme Court, California To Give Online Bar Exam On Oct. 5-6, Permanently Lower Cut Score, Provide Provisional Licensure For Class Of 2020 Grads Paul... [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 10:20 am by Paul Caron
Michael Abramowicz (George Washington), Predictive Test Scores and Diploma Privilege: The International Baccalaureate program, which credentials high-school students who take college-level classes, canceled exams this year because of COVID-19. [read post]
14 Jul 2020, 7:03 am by Michael Abramowicz
The International Baccalaureate program, which credentials high-school students who take college-level classes, canceled exams this year because of COVID-19. [read post]
13 Jul 2020, 9:27 am by Michael Abramowicz
Will Wilkinson last week offered a thoughtful tweet storm about social penalties for making claims that are out of bounds: Let's simplify everything by noting that basically everyone committed to liberal values agrees that some claims and topics fall outside the bounds of socially acceptable opinion and debate, but we disagree about what's in and out of bounds and about appropriate social penalties. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 9:20 am by Paul Caron
Rev. 65 (2019)], Professor Michael Abramowicz proposes that the government employ “tax experiments. [read post]
8 Jul 2020, 2:32 pm by Michael Abramowicz
David Hoffman and Cathy Hwang have written an article entitled "The Social Cost of Contract," arguing that the public is a third party to every contract and considering the relevance of that in determining whether courts should enforce contracts whose performance would have been inadvisable given the Covid-19 pandemic. [read post]
4 Jul 2020, 10:20 am by Michael Abramowicz
Former Senator Timothy Wirth, writing with Tom Rogers, yesterday published what is perhaps the most plausible account of how President Trump could lose the election and remain President. [read post]
26 May 2020, 3:23 am by Walter Olson
” [Jennifer Braceras] More: Why Mitch Daniels, president of Purdue, is determined to get the university reopened this fall for in-person instruction [Washington Post] Litigation ahead over question of how big a refund colleges may owe students of unused dormitory space [Jessica Goodman, AZFamily.com, Michael Abramowicz and Caprice Roberts] Law firm files 18 class actions against colleges and universities demanding refund on grounds that online academic program not as good… [read post]
22 May 2020, 12:28 pm by Michael Abramowicz
Five years ago, I wrote an article entitled "Cryptoinsurance," describing the possibility of a peer-to-peer insurance system implemented through cryptocurrency. [read post]
18 May 2020, 11:40 am by Michael Abramowicz
The stock market this morning offers a useful event study on how much of the social value of a vaccine the producer of the vaccine may expect to be able to capture. [read post]
5 May 2020, 5:11 pm by Michael Abramowicz
Let's assume that further studies establish that remdesivir turns out to have precisely the effects on COVID-19 patients indicated by the preliminary study reported several days ago. [read post]
14 Apr 2020, 2:24 pm by Michael Abramowicz
When governments end lockdowns, they must determine what set of rules to impose. [read post]