Michael Madison

@chrisbriem @PGHCityPaper @ProducerCities Well, there it is.

Anyways, for an obscure piece from the @PGHCityPaper archives on the yet to be named Burghosphere: Discourse Without the Dis (2007) pghcitypaper.com/news-2/discour… Cc: @profmadison @ProducerCities And I hope the CP archives will be preserved. Lots of unreplicated history in it.

Whoa

@chrisbriem Years ago, I met Slim Forsythe, lawyer, school bus driver, and old time country musician, who lived upstairs and who gave me and a friend a quick tour of his apartment. Slim had a fantastic collection of old time country music posters and related paraphernalia.

Ha! Nied’s

@chrisbriem Noteworthy but not necessarily a good thing. "Unicorn!" = "Squirrel!" More on my L.....I.

This is actually noteworthy. Pittsburgh's greatest failure has been to incubate & retain technology firms that start here. Attracting local operations of national tech firms has been very beneficial, but firm creation has not matched the scale of advanced research here.

@chrisbriem As you know better than I, Pittsburgh is sometimes unctuous bafflegab all the way down.

Wait a second. I'm all for vigorous debate, but why is it I'm singled out for the Ad Hominum? Why not this guy who said literally the exact same thing I did.

Well then. It's been an interesting week for me thus far. Now this. But in praise of the ad hominum: pghcitypaper.com/news/yimbys-wa…

My new book, The Line: AI & the Future of Personhood, was published today by MIT Press. It is under a CC license so you can read it for free. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewconten…

@BrettFrischmann @GKCWorkshop I have turned my account on Bluesky (mostly) into a series of notes about new knowledge commons research. I will add this piece.

@ShaniShisha @nyulawreview @nyulaw @SMULawSchool Provocative abstract. I've written a bunch of things over 20+ years about the troubled character of the copyright work, the "thing" at the center of the law and practice. Difficult to know whether any of them would be useful to you. Happy to chat separately.

My latest article, Copyright's Dominion, is forthcoming in the New York University Law Review, @nyulawreview. I'm excited to work with @nyulaw's outstanding students on this piece. @SMULawSchool

@ProfRobAnderson One hopes she replies, "You are a son of a bitch."

When a student is unprepared for my cold call in Contracts, I send a little email to their mother to let her know there is serious doubt about them becoming a lawyer. Saves me a dime.

@getmejoemiller @HoffProf What Joe said: lawreview.law.pitt.edu/ojs/lawreview/…. [Pitt's law review is published by, and archives are maintained by, the publishing arm of the main university's library system.] "Color figures" could be the next crusade, after victory to abolish et al. when citing multi-authored works.

@HoffProf Not my experience, but okay

@thepublicdomain @doctorow Huzzah and thank you. As ever, chunks of it will make it into my Fall Trademark Law syllabus and (later) into my Spring Copyright Law syllabus.

@doctorow And its free, and under a CC NC BY SA license. We hope you find it useful! Please retweet

Our new Intellectual Property Casebook is out, and you can download it for free! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/openip/

Yes, law school casebooks may seem expensive, but in practice you will be referring to them every day for the rest of your career.

@jess_miers @AkronLaw Congrats and welcome to the broader Three Rivers area! Come visit Pitt and Pittsburgh!😃 Coming in 2025: the next michaelmadison.net/three-rivers/

@Clevy_Law The deep epistemology of US legal ed is based on "the case." "The law" follows from the products of conflict, not the products of planning (by parties (deals), the government (administrative processes), or communities (governance). The surface payoff is a bias toward litigation.

Law schools should not assume that most of their students want to be litigators. It seems like most traditional legal education in the US is litigation-focused.

@OrinKerr As with many careers: as a candidate, you get nowhere by simply celebrating your glorious past. You are selling your glorious future. Many committees rely on poor proxies in predicting a candidate's future. Navigate around that as well as you can. Look forward to move forward.

Depending on your interests, you may find a way in to the legal academy that gets you into the classroom even if it's not a tenure-track podium position. Those are my thoughts. Anyone else want to weigh in o this?

Aspiring Law Professor Question #1, part of a series. Here's the question, with some thoughts below. (IAnd if you're an aspiring law professor, send your questions to orin at berkeley dot edu.)

@OrinKerr At many law schools, tenure-stream hiring follows teaching needs. Learn what those needs/interests are and will be. Law schools may cover courses with adjunct faculty and have little interest in shifting to full-time coverage. Or the adjunct "solution" may be a stopgap.

Aspiring Law Professor Question #2, part of a series. Here's the question, with some thoughts below. (And if you're an aspiring law professor, send your questions to orin at berkeley dot edu.)

@brianlfrye (Kidding.)

@brianlfrye Call me

I just posted the published version of my essay “A Legal Scholarship Jubilee,” in which I reattribute authorship of all of my scholarly articles. It appears in Volume 1 of the Northwestern Law Journal of Refuseés. Look to see if you landed an article! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

@CJSprigman @JeanneFromer @DSFrancis1 Nearly five years ago (!), I wrote a series of posts about law school casebooks and what close readings of their origins and uses can tell us about things that can and cannot be changed about legal education, higher education, and more. madisonian.net/2019/12/03/the…

@jordan_law21 @marclauritsen And yet the law-meets-tech vanguard of legal ed is focused almost 100% on how to teach new lawyers to build and use AI.

Look who we spotted at the Pittsburgh Riverhound’s soccer game this weekend - our very own Pitt Law community members! Program Assistant Amy Change, Prof. Madison, Director of Admissions Michelle Yingling, and Vice Dean Dickinson having a blast and supporting our local team.