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Lost Volume Theory: A Simple Recap
If there is one principle that’s key to understanding contract damages is that the legal system is terrified of someone getting more compensation than what they deserve. One mustn’t profit from a...
View ArticleHill v. Gateway: The Possibilities
Hills v. Gateway 2000 105 F.3d 1147 (1997) generates a lot of controversies, which is appropriate since the decision is pretty much wrong. (No, battle of the forms does not require forms, a single...
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Homeschooling Update
Post quarantine it’s been harder to keep the same schedule, and ironically or not, going to school led to a serious slowdown in the kids’ academic development. Still, we keep on doing Anki (“The...
View ArticleThe Medium: What Are Defamation Cases About?
The Supreme Court dealt with a relatively large number of defamation cases over the years. I was curious to see which media were most commonly involved. With the help of my trusted RA, Brandon Hobbs,...
View ArticleSignatures, Electronic Communications, and the Statute of Frauds
Lay people like to think that contracts have to be in writing. This is only true in specific situations and even then it’s not entirely correct. A set of rules known collectively as the Statute of...
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Trends in Law & Economics: Survey of ALEA Submissions
What is going on with L&E? There are many trends in the field, most clearly the the inexorable and partly excessive rush to empirical work. In this spirit, I thought we might be able to learn...
View ArticleDefamation Law with Bayesian Audiences
This is the previous draft of our forthcoming paper, Yonathan A. Arbel & Murat Mungan, Defamation Law with Bayesian Audiences, Forthcoming Journal of Legal Studies. The draft is titled “Regulating...
View ArticleSmart Contracts and the Blockchain
In theory, smart contracts do not depend on the blockchain. In practice, however, most applications do connect the two. Here I investigate the strength of the link by analyzing Github repositories. I...
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Testing Encoders
I wanted to get a feel for myself of how well Masked Language Models perform at uncovering masks. This is a fairly trivial exercise, but I wanted to do it myself to get a better intuition of relative...
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