Frank Fagan

South Texas College of Law Houston

Associate Professor

1303 San Jacinto Street

Houston, TX 77002

United States

EDHEC Augmented Law Institute

Research Associate

Roubaix, 59057

France

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1.

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Rules, Standards, and Judicial Discretion

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 1, 2019, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 704, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 876
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2020
Frank Fagan and Saul Levmore
South Texas College of Law Houston and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 565 (74,364)
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Systemic Social Media Regulation

Duke Law & Technology Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, p. 393, 2018
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 30 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2018
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 456 (96,682)
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social media regulation, ยง230, Communications Decency Act, Honest Ads Act

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Big Data Legal Scholarship: Toward a Research Program and Practitioner's Guide

Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Vol. 20, No. 1, p. 1, 2016
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 14 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2016
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 367 (123,926)

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big data, computational linguistics, law, legal scholarship

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Natural Language Processing for Lawyers and Judges

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 6, p. 1399, 2021
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 18 May 2021
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 364 (125,435)

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Natural Language Processing, Law, Predictive Inference, Causal Inference, Lawyering, Judging

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The Un-Modeled World: Law and the Limits of Machine Learning

MIT Computational Law Report, Vol. 4 (Forthcoming 2022)
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2022
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 323 (142,366)

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computational law, machine learning, Heidegger, Marcuse, Habermas, Valiant

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SPACs, PIPEs, and Common Investors

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper 954
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2022
Saul Levmore and Frank Fagan
University of Chicago Law School and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 272 (170,258)

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SPAC, PIPE, investor factfinding

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The End of Bargaining in the Digital Age

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 103, No. 6, p. 1469, 2018, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 820
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2021
Saul Levmore and Frank Fagan
University of Chicago Law School and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 270 (171,571)

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Semi-Confidential Settlements in Civil, Criminal, and Sexual Assault Cases

103 Cornell Law Review, 2017 Forthcoming, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 796, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 616
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 21 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 18 May 2021
Saul Levmore and Frank Fagan
University of Chicago Law School and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 247 (187,454)

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settlement, translucency, sunshine-in-litigation acts, Title IX

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Competing Algorithms for Law: Sentencing, Admissions, and Employment

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 88, No. 2, p. 367, 2021
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2021
Saul Levmore and Frank Fagan
University of Chicago Law School and South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 245 (189,693)

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Artificial Inteligence, AI, Evidence, COMPAS, Algorithms, Recidivism, Adjudication, Statistics

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Law and the Limits of Government: Temporary versus Permanent Legislation

F. Fagan, Law and the Limits of Government: Temporary versus Permanent Legislation, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 10 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2016
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 170 (263,761)

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temporary legislation, timing rules, temporary taxation, statutory obsolesence

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From Policy Confusion to Doctrinal Clarity: Successor Liability from the Prospective of Big Data

Virginia Law & Business Review, Vol. 9, No. 3, p. 391, 2015
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 30 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2019
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 156 (283,511)
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Optimal Social Media Content Moderation and Platform Immunities

European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 50, No. 3, p. 437, 2020
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 28 May 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2021
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 136 (316,530)
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Social Media, Fake News, First Amendment, Section 230, Communications Decency Act

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Reducing Ethical Misconduct of Attorneys with Mandatory Ethics Training: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Review of Law & Economics, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2019
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 May 2019 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2019
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 125 (337,225)

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professional responsibility, MPRE, MCLE, ethics training, GMM, panel data

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Legislative Sunrises: Transitions, Veiled Commitments, and Carbon Taxes

The Timing of Lawmaking, Frank Fagan and Saul Levmore (eds.) Edward Elgar Ltd., 2017
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 09 May 2016 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2017
Frank Fagan and Saul Levmore
South Texas College of Law Houston and University of Chicago Law School
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timing rules, sunrises, transitions, carbon taxes

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After the Sunset: The Residual Effect of Temporary Legislation

European Journal of Law and Economics Vol. 36, No. 1, p. 209, 2013
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2019
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
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timing rules, temporary legislation, sunset clauses, statutory obsolescence

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The Role of Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and Scholars in the Normative Evaluation of Timing Rules

University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, Vol. 160, No. 61, 2011
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 10 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2016
Frank Fagan and Michael G. Faure
South Texas College of Law Houston and University of Maastricht - Faculty of Law, Metro
Downloads 96 (404,951)
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temporary legislation, sunset clauses, timing rules

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Political Paralysis and Timing Rules

New York University Law Review Online, Vol. 91, p. 43, 2016
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 04 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2016
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
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timing rules, stabilization rules, sunrises, climate change, balanced budgets, representation clauses, Article V

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Waiving Good Faith: A Natural Language Processing Approach

New York University Journal of Law and Business, Vol. 16, No. 3, p. 633, 2020
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 03 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2020
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Contract, Good Faith, Waiver, Excluder Thesis, Recapture Thesis

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Sunsets and Federal Lawmaking: Evidence from the 110th Congress

International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 41, p. 1, March 2015
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 01 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 20 May 2015
Frank Fagan and Firat Bilgel
South Texas College of Law Houston and MEF University Department of Economics
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Timing rules, sunset legislation, passage probability, instrumental variables, bivariate probit

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The Fiscal Cliff as Reelection Strategy: Rethinking the Temporary Taxation Debate

West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 116, No. 3, p. 783, 2014
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 02 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2014
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
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temporary taxation, timing rule, sunset clause, budget window

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Legal Cycles and Stabilization Rules

The Timing of Lawmaking, Frank Fagan & Saul Levmore (eds.) Edward Elgar Ltd., 2017
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2018
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 59 (532,028)

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legal cycles, timing rules, sunset clauses, stabilization rules

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Renovating the Efficiency of Common Law Hypothesis

The Timing of Lawmaking, Frank Fagan & Saul Levmore (eds.) Edward Elgar Ltd., 2017
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 29 Nov 2018
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
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efficiency of common law hypothesis, economic loss rule, tort misalignments, Baconian judges

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Standardized Data Collection: Legal Requirements, Guidelines, or Competition?

GNLU Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 2, p. 69, 2019
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 07 May 2019 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2019
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
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Two-Sided Social Media and Bad Faith Political Speech

Research in Law and Economics, Vol. 29, p. 127, 2021
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 18 May 2021
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
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First Amendment, social media, two-sided content, 52 U.S.C. ยง 30121

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Lending in China

Research in Law and Economics, Vol. 30 p. 189, 2022
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 10 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2022
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 40 (626,534)

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China, banking, non-performing loan, asset management company, shadow-banking, predictive lending

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Common Law Efficiency When Joinder and Class Actions Fail as Aggregation Devices

European Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 47, No. 1, p. 1, 2019
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2019
Frank Fagan and Urmee Khan
South Texas College of Law Houston and Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside
Downloads 39 (632,310)

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Efficient Common Law Hypothesis, Joinder, Class Actions, Baconian Judges

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Law's Computational Paradox

Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 30 Dec 2022
Frank Fagan
South Texas College of Law Houston
Downloads 35 (656,317)

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artificial intelligence, lawmaking, rights allocation, lawyering