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Dave Hoffman

Dave Hoffman

@HoffProf

William A. Schnader Prof. of Law @pennlaw. Teaching writing & tweeting mostly about contracts. Against et al. Pro legal jargon. Neutral on legal process.

Philadelphia, PA Katılım Aralık 2013
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Dave Hoffman
Dave Hoffman@HoffProf·
@OrinKerr Putting a retirement age carveout back in the ADEA for tenured jobs seems like an idea that's pan-partisan.
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There a few law professors on here and linkedin who make it clear that their outside work is where their heart is (and, probably, the majority of their take-home pay). They are generally outliers, but less so than, say, a decade ago.
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Orin Kerr
Orin Kerr@OrinKerr·
@HoffProf Could be, but the one day rule is an already existing rule; non-zero efforts to enforce it would be a start. And for that matter, prodding profs who long ago stopped writing.
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@OrinKerr Yes, that rule is not well enforced. But also it could be just a flat percent of income rule.
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Orin Kerr
Orin Kerr@OrinKerr·
@HoffProf This is part of the general failure of law schools to enforce rules on tenured profs, though, right? I assume the profs are violating the university rules on limits of outside roles (usually something like 1 day a week), which the universities aren't enforcing.
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Dave Hoffman
Dave Hoffman@HoffProf·
I swear to god, every time I talk in public about our employers' latent ability to tax our outside compensation as a natural and obviously consequence of agency law, my phone blows up with we don't talk about fight club texts.
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Dave Hoffman
Dave Hoffman@HoffProf·
But, if law schools are really pinched for funds, they are going to find the opportunity to take a piece of this outside income pretty tempting. At least as our jobs are currently structured, I think our employers have this option in their back pocket.
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Dave Hoffman
Dave Hoffman@HoffProf·
So we have fewer babies and more depression but also less crime and alcoholism. Cellphones are really the cause of and solution to everything except possibly spring allergies.
Arpit Gupta@arpitrage

Very nice piece by @jburnmurdoch makes a case for smartphones being responsible for the fertility decline, through channels like • pure time displacement • changing (gendered) norms • decreased socialization

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joel seltzer
joel seltzer@joseltzer·
Gray Catbirds, man. They ghost you for six months and then they show up again like they own the place and eat up all your food.
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Dave Hoffman
Dave Hoffman@HoffProf·
The last one really might be deceptive. It's measuring the dominance of particular acquirer counsel (when I can collect it) in deals in this selected sample.
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Dave Hoffman
Dave Hoffman@HoffProf·
It turns out that none of the law firm stuff works very well in the paper (which is actually about dispute resolution). So I'm going to have to repurpose it for purposes of clicks. Take this one as very in-sample only. And the sample is selected!
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Dave Hoffman
Dave Hoffman@HoffProf·
I'm working on a new paper about mergers, using a dataset consisting of 14K agreements from 2000-2025. One fun plot that's not going to make the cut illustrates that law firms seem to have a geographic specialization in their M&A practice.
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Dave Hoffman
Dave Hoffman@HoffProf·
@derektmuller I'd like to write a brief on behalf of neither party arguing for international law's application.
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Derek T. Muller
Derek T. Muller@derektmuller·
Just as this brief is very careful not to invoke the Legislature Thereof Clause argument, only making a state law aim & apparently hoping the Court would find a basis for finding such an argument relevant. x.com/i/status/20547…
Kristen Clarke@KristenClarkeJD

🚨NEW: We are standing up to protect the 3M+ ballots cast in Virginia’s ballot referendum. At no moment in American democracy have we allowed millions of ballots from a statewide election to simply be rendered null and void. @naacp @adv_project

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Dave Hoffman
Dave Hoffman@HoffProf·
I'm not going to talk about the corn situation yet -- @Klonick is always watching -- but let me just say I'm prepared.
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