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“I made a very good living last year,” said Chuck Cusimano II, one of Louisiana's 390 'justices of the peace' who run for-profit eviction courts, required only to have a high school diploma and not required to follow standard rules of evidence. He makes $150+ per eviction...
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The week in review: Ganesh Sitaraman on public utility regulation and AI, Zohra Ahmed and Brishen Rogers on the latest developments of the ALPE, and a roundtable on the right to stay and private law. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web.
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What would a meaningful right to stay require? And how can private law help disadvantaged people and families build lasting, rooted communities? Today, Marissa Jackson Sow, Allison Tait, Carla Spivack, Alina Ball, Juan Carlos Ibarra, and Carliss Chatman weigh in.
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Everyone from Sam Altman to Abdul El-Sayed have called for treating AI as a public utility. But what would this mean? One the country's leading experts in public utility regulation breaks it down. 👇
Today, @GaneshSitaraman offers a primer on how to think about public utility regulation and its tools—and how to apply them to different parts of the AI tech stack.
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Today, @GaneshSitaraman offers a primer on how to think about public utility regulation and its tools—and how to apply them to different parts of the AI tech stack.
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People sometimes say AI is or should be governed as a public utility. What does that mean? I've spent a lot of time over the last decade studying public utility regulation, historically and across sectors. Here's my primer on how to think about it. vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.…
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Weekly Roundup: Omer Ein-Habar on the original sewer socialists, Ioannis Kampourakis on law as a produce force, and Yochai Benkler on the legal transformation of capitalism. Plus, a junior faculty forum, a call for book reviews, democracy's death by consultancy, and more!
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Today, Yochai Benkler continues our symposium on Katharina Pistor's *The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform it.* To design the right program for capitalism’s legal transformation, he argues, we must begin with the right theory of capitalism.
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New from @asad09, a menu of how to think about taxing AI -- a must read!
From city councils to Congress, there’s a growing desire to tax AI, but policymakers don’t always know their options. My new paper outlines 34 ways to tax AI across data centers, chips, data, AI cos. & products, automation & general tax reforms. vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.…
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Always a good day when the Blog features rival interpretations of the enclosure of the English commons.
Today, Yochai Benkler continues our symposium on Katharina Pistor's *The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform it.* To design the right program for capitalism’s legal transformation, he argues, we must begin with the right theory of capitalism.
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Today, Yochai Benkler continues our symposium on Katharina Pistor's *The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform it.* To design the right program for capitalism’s legal transformation, he argues, we must begin with the right theory of capitalism.
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