Law Professor @WashULaw. Law & AI, Statutory Interpretation, Tax Law.
Joined December 2019
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🚨New paper! ELARA is a guide to empirical legal research using AI agents, with an accompanying GitHub package that implements a complete workflow: from honing a research question to data generation, validation, analysis, and proofreading a draft. 1/3
ssrn.com/abstract=7349078
One key innovation is that ELARA generates data from text using sub-agents rather than API calls. This is much cheaper due to subscription discounts (~1/18 the cost at time of writing, although this can change) and permits better monitoring. 2/3
You can easily install ELARA into Claude Code/Codex by following the instructions on Github, or just copy prompts into your coding agent if you prefer. All feedback welcome! 3/3
github.com/jonathanhchoi/ELA…
Eligibility: no more than 7 years of full-time academic teaching or research—including VAPs, fellowships, or postdocs—as of July 1, 2026. Scholars currently in a VAP or fellowship are eligible. Co-authored papers qualify if all co-authors meet the 7-year criterion. 5/6
To nominate: email [email protected] by Sept. 20, 2026, with the subject line "AALS Emerging Scholar Award Nomination," including the nominee's name and affiliation and an anonymized copy of the paper. Self-nominations are welcome. 6/6
Eligibility for New Voices: no more than 7 years of full-time academic teaching or research—including VAPs, fellowships, or postdocs—as of July 1, 2026. Faculty: We are also seeking senior scholars to comment on papers in the workshop. 5/6
Submit by Sept. 20, 2026, to [email protected]. Use subject “AALS New Congressional Oversight Submission,” “AALS New Voices Submission,” or “AALS New Voices Commentator,” as applicable. 6/6
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🚨New Paper 🚨 In the first randomized controlled trial of AI assistance’s effect on human legal analysis, we find it leads to large & consistent increases in speed on various legal tasks w/o harming quality. Check out Lawyering in the Age of AI now: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.….
Incredible news! Also big kudos to @ajurowkleiman who played a big part in the Direct File IRS feasibility report.
Congrats to folks at @USTreasury like @jacobsgoldin who built the free Direct File tax-filing service -- great to save taxpayers money.
cnn.com/2023/10/17/politics/…
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Very happy that my paper w/ @JonathanHChoi, AI Assistance in Legal Analysis: An Empirical Study, papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…, is now forthcoming in the Journal of Legal Education!
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We’re releasing a guide for teachers using ChatGPT in their classroom — including suggested prompts, an explanation of how ChatGPT works and its limitations, the efficacy of AI detectors, and bias. openai.com/blog/teaching-wit…
📜New paper!📜
The big question for professors this past year: how useful is GPT-4 for university exams? @Dschwarcz and I ran a study on law school exams, finding that GPT-4 helps with simple multiple-choice but not complex essay questions. 1/4
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Finally, we found that with good prompting (grounding with sources), GPT-4 alone outperformed on average BOTH humans alone AND humans with access to AI. Potentially bad news for legal paraprofessionals who currently do simple tasks conducive to automation. 3/4