Matthew Sag

Emory University School of Law

1301 Clifton Road

Atlanta, GA 30322

United States

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Scholarly Papers (41)

1.

Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling

103 Iowa Law Review 571 (2018)
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 16 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2018
Matthew Sag and Jake Haskell
Emory University School of Law and Independent
Downloads 9,013 (1,312)
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Copyright, Copyright trolls, Statutory damages, Litigation, Litigation strategy, Civil procedure, Pleading standards, Joinder, File-sharing, BitTorrent, Public interest litigation

2.

Copyright Safety for Generative AI

Forthcoming in the Houston Law Review, Houston Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 2, 2023
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 04 May 2023 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2024
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 3,880 (5,492)
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Copyright, Fair use, Generative AI, Copyright Safety, Foundation Models, Large language models

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The New Legal Landscape for Text Mining and Machine Learning

Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, Vol. 66 p.291 (2019)
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 26 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 29 Feb 2020
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 2,897 (8,776)
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Copyright, Fair Use, Terms of Use, Computer Hacking, Digital Rights Management, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Digital Single Market Directive, Text Mining, Text Data Mining, Digital Humanities, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Search, Reverse Engineering, Plagiarism Detection

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IP Litigation in United States District Courts: 1994 to 2014

101 Iowa Law Review 1065 (2016)
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2016
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 1,414 (27,013)
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Intellectual Property, Litigation, Copyright, Patent, Trademark, Empirical Legal Studies, Internet, File sharing, Trolls, Forum Shopping, Forum Selling, District courts

5.

Predicting Fair Use

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol. 73:1 47-91 (2012), TRPC 2011, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-005
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 27 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 12 May 2012
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 1,377 (28,108)
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Copyright, Fair Use, Empirical, Commercial, Creativity, Amount, Transformative Use, Laywers & Law Firms, Litigation

Implementing User Rights for Research in the Field of Artificial Intelligence: A Call for International Action

European Intellectual Property Review 2020, Vol. 42, Issue 7, 393-398., American University, WCL Research Paper No. 2020-12
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2021
American University - Washington College of Law, Luiss Guido Carli University, University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR), Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP), Faculty of Law - KU Leuven, Emory University School of Law, Schulich School of Law and American University Washington College of Law
Downloads 1,025 (42,518)
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Copyright, artificial intelligence, machine learning, text and data mining, user rights, limitations and exceptions, research

Implementing User Rights for Research in the Field of Artificial Intelligence: A Call for International Action

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series no. 48
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 18 Nov 2021
American University - Washington College of Law, Luiss Guido Carli University, University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information Law (IViR), Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP), Faculty of Law - KU Leuven, Emory University School of Law, Schulich School of Law and American University Washington College of Law
Downloads 239 (244,506)

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intellectual property, artificial intelligence, text and data mining

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Forward Looking Academic Impact Rankings for U.S. Law Schools

Florida State University Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 07 May 2024
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 1,166 (35,733)

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Law School Rankings, Academic Impact, Citation

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Copyright and Copy-Reliant Technology

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 103, 2009, The DePaul University College of Law, Technology, Law & Culture Research Series Paper No. 09-001
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 03 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2012
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 978 (46,016)
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Internet, Copyright, Non-expressive use, Opt-out, Fair use, Transaction costs

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Copyright Trolling, An Empirical Study

Iowa Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 06 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2014
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 933 (49,074)

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Copyright trolls, Patent trolls, Copyright litigation, Empirical legal studies, Statutory damages, Joinder, Pornography

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Downloads 924 (49,763)
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The Pre-History of Fair Use

Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 4, 2011
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 23 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2011
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 779 (61,870)

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Copyright, History, Fair Use, Abridgment, Derivative Right, Market Effect, Substitution

The Pre-History of Fair Use

Brooklyn Law Review, Vol. 27, 2011, The DePaul University College of Law, Technology, Law & Culture Research Paper No. 10-007
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Oct 2010
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 145 (383,800)

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Copyright, History, Fair Use, Abridgment, Derivative Right, Market Effect, Substitution

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Fairness and Fair Use in Generative AI

92 Fordham Law Review 1887 (2024)
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2024
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 903 (51,421)

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Copyright, Fair use, Generative AI, Copyright Safety, Foundation Models, Large language models

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The Google Book Settlement and the Fair Use Counterfactual

New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 55, 2010, The DePaul University College of Law, Technology, Law & Culture Research Series Paper No. 10-001
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2012
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 900 (51,573)
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Google, Google Book Search, Google Settlement, Authors Guild, Copyright, Fair Use, Class Action, Antitrust

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Brief of Digital Humanities and Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Authors Guild v. Google

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Oct 2012
Matthew Jockers, Matthew Sag and Jason Schultz
Washington State University, Emory University School of Law and New York University School of Law
Downloads 800 (60,602)
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Copyright, text-mining, digital humanities, nonexpressive use, hathitrust

14.

Taking Laughter Seriously at the Supreme Court

72 Vanderbilt Law Review 1423
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 13 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 793 (61,324)

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Humor, Laughter, Advocacy, Oral argument, Supreme Court, Judges, Justices of the Supreme Court, Polarization, Judicial decision-making, Judicial behavior, Empirical legal studies

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Internet Safe Harbors and the Transformation of Copyright Law

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 93, 2017
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 27 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2018
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 770 (63,775)
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Copyright, DMCA, Infringement, Internet, Safe harbors, Enforcement, Fair use, Automation, Algorithms, Robots

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The New Oral Argument: Justices as Advocates

Notre Dame Law Review, Vol. 94, 2019
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 06 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2018
Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 691 (73,376)
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Supreme Court, Oral argument, decision-making, ideology, advocacy, polarization, empirical legal studies

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Inclusive Citation Rankings of U.S. Law Schools

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 16 May 2022
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 656 (78,354)

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Scholarly Impact, Scholarship, Legal Scholarship, Law Schools, Ranking, Law School Ranking, Citation Counts, Exclusion

18.

Patent Reform and Differential Impact

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 925722
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 22 Aug 2006
Matthew Sag and Kurt W. Rohde
Emory University School of Law and Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law
Downloads 626 (83,084)
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Patent, law and economics, bad patents, differential impact, uncertainty, information asymmetries, post-grant review

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The Effect of Judicial Ideology in Intellectual Property Cases

2nd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 03 Jul 2007
Matthew Sag, Tonja Jacobi and Maxim Sytch
Emory University School of Law, Emory University School of Law and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 603 (87,049)
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intellectual property, ideology, politics, attitudinal model, empirical, supreme court, federal circuit, patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret

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The Fair Use Doctrine in the United States — A Response to the Kernochan Report

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 27 Jul 2013
Gwen Hinze, Peter A. Jaszi and Matthew Sag
University of California, Berkeley, American University - Washington College of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 533 (101,772)
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Copyright, Fair Use, United States, Australia, Education

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Promoting Innovation

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 100, 2015
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 09 Oct 2014
Spencer Weber Waller and Matthew Sag
Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 461 (121,164)
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Antitrust, Competition, Creative destruction, Joseph Schumpeter, Intellectual property

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Beyond Abstraction: The Law and Economics of Copyright Scope and Doctrinal Efficiency

Tulane Law Review, Vol. 81, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 916603
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 12 Jul 2006
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 404 (141,315)
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Copyright, copyright scope, cost-benefit analysis, doctrinal efficiency, fair use, law and economics, secondary liability, market failure, and private ordering

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God in the Machine: A New Structural Analysis of Copyright's Fair Use Doctrine

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 05-10
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 02 May 2005
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 393 (145,781)
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Intellectual Property, Copyright, Fair Use, Public Choice, Consumer Autonomy, Medium Neutrality, Reverse Engineering

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Brief of Digital Humanities and Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Authors Guild v. Hathitrust

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Jun 2013
Matthew Jockers, Matthew Sag and Jason Schultz
Washington State University, Emory University School of Law and New York University School of Law
Downloads 385 (149,584)
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copyright, intellectual property, text-mining, digital humanities, digitization, non-expressive use, non-consumptive use

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IP Litigation in United States District Courts - 2015 Update

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2016
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 333 (174,863)

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Intellectual Property, Litigation, Empirical, Copyright, Patent, Trademark

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Orphan Works as Grist for the Data Mill

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2014
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 322 (181,225)
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Nonexpressive, expressive, expression, library, digitization, fair use, original, copying, software, copyright

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Ideology and Exceptionalism in Intellectual Property: An Empirical Study

California Law Review, Vol. 97, p. 801, 2009, The DePaul University College of Law, Technology, Law & Culture Research Series Paper No. 09-009
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 29 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2010
Matthew Sag, Tonja Jacobi and Maxim Sytch
Emory University School of Law, Emory University School of Law and University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Downloads 320 (182,356)
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Intellectual Property, Ideology, Politics, Attitudinal model, Empirical

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We are the AI problem

Emory Law Journal Online
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 May 2024
Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 276 (212,956)

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Generative AI, Socio-technical problems, "Wokeness", Black-Nazi problem

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League Structure & Stadium Rent Seeking - The Role of Antitrust Revisited

Florida Law Review, Forthcoming, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-006, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-05
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 12 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2012
David D. Haddock, Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Northwestern University - School of Law and Department of Economics, Emory University School of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 263 (223,518)
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Antitrust, Competition, Sport, League Structure, Promotion-and-relegation

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An Information-Gathering Approach to Copyright Policy

34 Cardozo Law Review 173 (2012), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 12-17, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2012-014
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 15 May 2012 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2015
Peter C. DiCola and Matthew Sag
Northwestern University School of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 260 (226,021)

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Copyright, Technology, Information, Institutions, Rights, Policy

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Brief of Digital Humanities and Law Scholars as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellees and Affirmance, (The Authors Guild, Inc., et al., v. Google, Inc., et al.) (Second Circuit)

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Jul 2014
Matthew Jockers, Matthew Sag and Jason Schultz
Washington State University, Emory University School of Law and New York University School of Law
Downloads 218 (268,054)

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copyright, text-mining, digital humanities, non-expressive use, search engines, book search, meta data, fair use, Authors Guild, Hathitrust, Google

Taking the Measure of Ideology: Empirically Measuring Supreme Court Cases

Georgetown Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 19 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 24 May 2012
Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 210 (276,501)

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Judicial behavior, Empirical legal studies, Measurement, Ideology, Collegiality, Strategic behavior, Intellectual property, Supreme Court

Taking the Measure of Ideology: Empirically Measuring Supreme Court Cases

APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2009
Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law and Emory University School of Law

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Judicial behavior, Empirical legal studies, Measurement, Ideology, Collegiality, Strategic behavior, Intellectual property, Supreme Court

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Supreme Court Interruptions and Interventions: The Changing Role of the Chief Justice

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 103, 2023
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 Mar 2023
Tonja Jacobi and Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 207 (281,232)

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Empirical Studies of Copyright Litigation

Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law (Vol. II -- Analytical Methods) (Edward Elgar Publishing) (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2017
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 202 (287,664)

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Intellectual Property, Copyright, Economics, Empirical, Litigation

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Twelve Year-Olds, Grandmothers, and Other Good Targets for the Recording Industry's File Sharing Litigation

Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 133, Spring 2006
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 190 (304,124)

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Copyright, Peer-to-peer, File sharing, End User Litigation

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Empirical Studies of Copyright Litigation: Nature of Suit Coding

Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-017
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 25 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2013
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 189 (305,563)
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Copyright, Empirical, PACER, Nature of Suit, Litigation, Validity

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Discovering eBay's Impact on Copyright Injunctions Through Empirical Evidence

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2022
Matthew Sag and Pamela Samuelson
Emory University School of Law and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
Downloads 176 (325,591)

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Copyright, Remedies, Injunction, Empirical, eBay v MercExchange, Precedent, Selection effects

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The Uncertain Scope of the Public Performance Right after Aereo

Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2014-017
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2014
Matthew Sag
Emory University School of Law
Downloads 172 (332,315)

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Copyright, Public Performance, Technology, Broadcast, Cable, Aereo, Cablevision, Fair Use

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Oral Argument in the Time of COVID: The Chief Plays Calvinball

Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, ___ (2021)
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 23 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 04 Jan 2021
Emory University School of Law, University of Minnesota, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 150 (373,052)
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Coronavirus, COVID-19, Pandemic, Institutions, Adaptation, Supreme Court, Oral Argument, Empirical Legal Studies

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SCOTUS in the Time of COVID: The Evolution of Justice Dynamics during Oral Arguments

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Sep 2022
Oklahoma State University - Stillwater, Emory University School of Law, University of Minnesota and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 46 (762,226)

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Supreme Court, Oral Argument, Covid, Chief Justice, Judicial Behavior

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The Data-Sitters Club #7: The DSC and Mean Copyright Law

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Mar 2021
Quinn Dombrowski and Matthew Sag
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Emory University School of Law
Downloads 36 (835,296)

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Copyright, Text data mining, text mining, fair use, DMCA, Baby-sitting