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David Kenny

@dkennytcd

Professor in Law and Fellow @tcddublin, @TCDLawSchool. Views mine. Teaching constitutional law, law & lit, & why law is basically nonsense.

Dublin City, Ireland انضم Eylül 2011
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David Kenny@dkennytcd·
Just in time for the Christmas, you can preorder the paperback edition of my book! It won’t arrive until after Christmas, which I know will disappoint many, but a printout of a preorder is often an even better stocking filler than a book. 20% off w/ code below, link in next tweet
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This is what I always wonder. If you verify properly, you don’t save much time (and have a worse understanding of the law on the matter you’re handling than if you’d done it yourself). If it’s saving lots of time, verification is not good enough and big mistakes will happen, no?
Dallin Drescher@DrescherLaw

I know I’m in the minority here but you’ve lost me with the “yes you should use AI to write motions but you also should read every word and double check every citation” Like how does that save any time? (It’s not that I don’t think you should check, it’s just that if you have to check, AI isn’t nearly as useful to lawyers as nonlawyers think it is)

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David Kenny@dkennytcd·
The great Cass Sunstein delivering a public lecture on campus free speech at Trinity next Thursday. Should be hugely worthwhile. All welcome, booking essential at the form in the next tweet!
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David Kenny@dkennytcd·
Have any legal practitioner friends in Ireland had courtroom encounters (criminal or civil) with people using the methods of the Freemen on the Land? Would love to chat quickly at some stage if so.
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Conor O'Neill@conoraon·
🚨 Salient Rulings of the Chair mentioned on Primetime radio klaxon @dkennytcd
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CorribEconomics@CorribEconomics·
@dkennytcd @mcmnorris In our case, the no. on course A fell, but by less than the no. on Course B. So fee incomes up, plus B has four years vs. 3yrs. No new modules to teach, but yes, admin costs for 4th year.
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Michelle Norris@mcmnorris·
Philip Nolan is correct that the proliferation of small 'niche' degrees inflate CAO points. I also think large multi subject degrees in arts, science etc are better for students who can trial new subjects in 1st year & make an informed choice of specialism rte.ie/news/education…
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@CorribEconomics @mcmnorris If in this scenario it’s an expansion, and alternative is to 300/320 in course A, I can see why you might want to differentiate it/keep cohort smaller. We did soemthing like that when adding Law and Bus/Pol/History, but certainly not with a desire to have higher points for them.
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CorribEconomics@CorribEconomics·
@dkennytcd @mcmnorris Course A is well established, with 250 students. Uni creates course B, which uses most/all the modules from course A, plus adds work placement and/or study abroad. It has 50-70 places, with much higher points. They are different, but you could cynically say it's all marketing.
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@kvallier Well I was being hyperbolic rather than questioning his competence as a researcher, but I think one is allowed to judge his idea of what makes a good lit review from his ringing endorsement of a tool that I know from experience is an incredibly bad substitute for a lit review.
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Kevin Vallier
Kevin Vallier@kvallier·
@dkennytcd He's one of the most important polarization researchers ever, and has done many reviews of that literature himself. Disagree with him, but you cannot credibly question his competence.
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From a political science academic: “AI does lit reviews better”. Spectacular way to announce you are really, really incredibly bad at a very basic aspect of your job.
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@jburnmurdoch Do you have any data on this being causative? I am not hostile to the claim, and find it intuitively plausible having researched overall number of administrative law decisions issued by apex courts across Europe, but I have never seen anyone filter out other possible causes.
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John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch·
Underrated factor in why English-speaking countries have especially bad housing crises is their common law systems (adversarial and litigious) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. Makes Anglo planning/permitting systems especially vulnerable to NIMBYs and other objections.
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