Calling all juvenile defenders! Empirical evidence reflects the fact that young folks who have been exposed to trauma are far more likely to give false, unreliable, and involuntary confessions. Consider this a factor in the inquiry. For more: datafordefenders.org/wp-content/u...
Social science shows that we tend to underestimate the coercion others feel when pressured by authority. Some states already require reasonable suspicion before consent searches can occur. Use the data in this pleading to argue that yours should too: datafordefenders.org/wp-content/u...
Meet Nell Haney. Nell is a recent MDefenders graduate who is heading to work as a public defender at the Neighborhood Defender Service in Detroit. We are going to miss her @umichlaw.bsky.social, but we can't wait to see all of the amazing things she will do!
Michigan Lawyers Weekly has chosen Professor Dana A. Thompson, ’99, as a 2026 Legal Innovation Award honoree for Innovation in Legal Education, specifically citing her work as the founding director of the Law School’s Zell Entrepreneurship Clinic.
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Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah proposes using taxation as an effective way to control emerging AI technology.
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My article, State Climate Superfunds, has been years in the making, and I'm so thrilled it is now published with Columbia Law Review:
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Michigan Lawyers Weekly has chosen Professor Dana A. Thompson, ’99, as a 2026 Legal Innovation Award honoree for Innovation in Legal Education, specifically citing her work as the founding director of...
Great work from a bunch of my UM colleagues on the impact of Michigan’s Medicaid expansion. It reinforces the conclusion that the ACA was a great step forward, and the OBBBA is a serious threat.
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Introduction On a summer day in July 2023, the skies over Vermont turned apocalyptic. A massive thunderstorm dumped two months of rainfall over the state in about twenty four hours, leading to flash f...
Read Taxation of Autonomous AI in the Marquette Law Review here: scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol108/...
New from Professor @profrrothschild.bsky.social in the Columbia Law Review, State Climate Superfunds, explores enacting new laws that would require the companies who have most profited from fossil fuel usage to assist in funding climate adaptation projects.
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I joined Grant Hermes on his podcast to discuss ideas for better governance from my new book, The Fix. You can listen here.
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Podcast Episode · Make It Make Sense with Grant Hermes · June 12 · 35m
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While the public may think of taxation as primarily a way to raise money for governments, Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah notes that the bulk of the federal tax code regulates activities. He proposes using...
This Article proposes that tax can be a useful supplement to other measures to regulate Autonomous Artificial Intelligence (AAI) and limit its potential harmful effects. This proposal differs from com...
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Introduction On a summer day in July 2023, the skies over Vermont turned apocalyptic. A massive thunderstorm dumped two months of rainfall over the state in about twenty four hours, leading to flash f...
