Brandon Waldon
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Linguistics & Philosophy @ University of South Carolina bwaldon.github.io
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Brandon Waldon
Kevin Tobia
about 2 months ago
Prior studies have found that people perceive AI-led legal processes as less fair than human-led ones. This is the legal "human-AI fairness gap." New studies (N = 7,651) discover that this gap is mitigated with even minimal human involvement in the AI process.
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Mitigating the Judicial Human-AI Fairness Gap
When algorithms make legal decisions, people perceive the process as less fair than when humans do — a phenomenon known as the judicial human-AI fairness gap. W
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5244954
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Grateful to Professor
@lsolum.bsky.social
for sharing our work - and for the "Download it while it's hot!" accolade!
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Brandon Waldon
Kevin Tobia
2 months ago
Originalist debates often draw on historical analysis. Yet in statutory cases, textualist decisions--and critiques of them--rarely draw on linguistics. Linguistics can and should inform debates about textualism:
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Linguistics and Textualism
Should linguistics inform textualism? When legal theories make claims about another discipline’s subject, that discipline is often illuminating: History impacts
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6482359
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Does anyone have an electronic copy of Bartsch (1973), "'Negative transportation' gibt es nicht" in Linguistische Berichte?
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Currently accepting applications on a rolling basis! Postdoc in Empirical Approaches to Legal Interpretation, with a start date of Fall 2025. A great opportunity to work with the wonderful
@complingy.bsky.social
@kevintobia.bsky.social
Details here:
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Brandon Waldon
Lawrence Solum
12 months ago
Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu/entries/expe...
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Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Experimental jurisprudence (or “X-Jur”) addresses questions of jurisprudence or legal philosophy by complementing traditional philosophical analysis with empirical methods. Often those methods…
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/experimental-jurisprudence/
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Brandon Waldon
Martin Haspelmath
about 1 year ago
RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....
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John R. Ross - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Ross
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Brandon Waldon
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
over 1 year ago
📣 New Paper ⚖️🧑⚖️🏛️ Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It 👩⚖️🏛️⚖️ with
@bwal.bsky.social
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@complingy.bsky.social
Amir Zeldes, and
@kevintobia.bsky.social
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Large Language Models for Legal Interpretation? Don't Take Their Word for It
<p><span>Recent breakthroughs in statistical language modeling have impacted countless domains, including the law. Chatbot applications such as ChatGPT, Claude,
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5123124
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