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Robert Anderson

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2 years

Professors: How do you usually handle tipping in your classes? I write my venmo up on the board the first day so students can express their appreciation for an especially well-delivered lecture. Other ideas worked better for you?

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Robert Anderson

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4 months

@johnkonrad “I can always do that later,” is something we often tell ourselves to avoid new experiences, but it isn’t always true.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

Idea: Law school Contracts class, but where you read a contract.

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4 years

There is only one thing that can resolve this crisis—an open letter signed by many academics.

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Robert Anderson

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3 years

Idea: Law school Contracts class, but where you read a contract.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I know this is close to heresy, but more and more I'm coming around to the idea that: 1. Law school could be an undergraduate degree here in the US as it is in many places, and 2. Allowing that would improve access to justice more cost effectively than any other single reform.

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Robert Anderson

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3 months

People: What do you do for a living? Me: Lawyer People: You must know a lot about law Me: No, not that type of lawyer.

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Robert Anderson

@ProfRobAnderson

2 years

BREAKING: I have uncovered evidence of rampant plagiarism in transactional law. Using sophisticated computer techniques, I have determined that transactional attorneys *routinely* copy and paste from other people’s contracts without attribution.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

When I was practicing transactional law, the litigators would always make fun of us saying all we did was change the names in old forms. That just showed how ignorant they were of actual practice; we also changed the dates and sometimes other stuff too.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

In the transactional legal practice system, the documents are constituted by two separate yet equally important keystrokes: The control C, which copies text, and the control V, which pastes it. These are their stories.

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A lot of transactional lawyers just repurpose old forms from prior transactions. Not me. When one of my clients wants a bond indenture, I sit down with a blank Word document and type up something really creative and special that showcases my originality as a lawyer.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

Every time I suggest that students should read a contract in Contracts class I get lawyers who respond like, "Oh yeah, should we commit crimes in Criminal Law class?" And it makes me think lawyers really need an analogies class.

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Robert Anderson

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7 months

Law students: You are SO much more than any law school grade. You are an average of several law school grades.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

A lot of M&A newbs are confused about why Elon's bringing a sink into Twitter's headquarters. The ceremonial bringing of the sink is a standard ritual that is observed in all merger closings. It brings good luck.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

If you’ve never experienced the joy of grading law school exams, imagine reading 10 dense printed pages, then reading almost the same 10 pages 70 more times with slight differences that matter tremendously to students.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

Note to my students: “He thinks he’s funny but he’s not,” and “He laughs at his own jokes,” are not useful teaching evaluation comments because I know that stuff already.

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Robert Anderson

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2 months

The faculty lounge here at the University of Arkansas law school is really some next level stuff.

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Robert Anderson

@ProfRobAnderson

4 years

Anyone have tips on banning laptops in a Zoom class?

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Robert Anderson

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4 months

Someone should tell that Young Thug judge you gotta fight for your right to ex parte.

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Robert Anderson

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5 years

Law students: Remember to echo your professor's ideology on your final exams! If you haven't noticed this on Twitter, many profs are incapable of separating "is" from "ought," acknowledging trade-offs, or recognizing the validity of counterarguments. There are many exceptions.

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Robert Anderson

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2 months

A four-year-old kid accidentally breaks a Bronze Age jar in a museum, and this is the museum director's response. Our world needs more of this.

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Robert Anderson

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3 years

Law school casebooks may *seem* expensive, but think of them as an investment! Most practicing lawyers consult their law school casebooks daily for decades.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I'm proud to announce my new article, "Gapfilling." It fills an important gap. I'll post a SSRN link once it gets accepted by a T-14 journal.

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Robert Anderson

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5 years

Law students: I know waiting for grades is stressful, but just take humor in the realization that all over America right now law professors are grading your exams in their childhood bedrooms, still furnished with Sesame Street blankets and surrounded by participation trophies.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

On hilly college campuses, waterslides should be one of the main modes of transportation. On flat college campuses, lazy rivers.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I'm not proud to admit this, but one time I drafted a contract by plagiarizing someone else's contract.

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Robert Anderson

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13 days

People are beginning to learn more about how things actually work On the Waterfront.

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Union boss behind port strikes has sprawling mansion in NJ — complete with Bentley, 5-car garage and guest house

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Robert Anderson

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3 months

Yes, law school casebooks may seem expensive, but in practice you will be referring to them every day for the rest of your career.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

I just felt a great disturbance in the law, as if thousands of law professor voices suddenly cried out in an open letter.

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Robert Anderson

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13 days

Contracts students: I just learned that Prof. Ian Ayres made 80 YouTube videos covering almost every area of contract law. This is an incredible resource if you're having trouble understanding something and want a reliable but accessible explanation.

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Robert Anderson

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1 month

@ConnorMEwing “Pls get me on the Professor’s schedule. Thx”

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Robert Anderson

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3 years

In the transactional legal practice system, the documents are constituted by two separate yet equally important keystrokes: The control C, which copies text, and the control V, which pastes it. These are their stories.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

One of the cool things I’ve learned about the Constitution by reading con law articles is how stuff we like is constitutional and stuff we don’t like isn’t.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I have been preparing my Contracts students for a radical pedagogical gamble I'm planning to take: We are going to read a contract in Contracts class.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

A lot of people in the replies to my tweet are suggesting that I get an only fans account to help make ends meet. I don’t know what that is but I assume it’s some sort of website where professors can expose their ideas to the public?

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

I'm so glad that gyms are reopening. It's been pretty rough not getting in the reps with the 225 pound bench press for the last couple months, and also the previous 540 months before that.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

Law students sometimes feel anxiety about speaking up in Con Law because the issues can be politically sensitive. However, they should rest assured that law schools carefully vet the professors teaching these classes to ensure they are objective and evenhanded.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

Facebook reminded me of the best rainbow picture I ever took, Christmas four years ago.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I think Con Law profs know this already, but asking students to write on their final exams about hot-button current events that evoke strong emotional responses is not the best method of summative assessment.

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Robert Anderson

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4 months

The Tesla pay package and reincorporation vote was probably the largest grassroots mobilization of retail shareholders ever. Sure, they had plenty of corporate encouragement, but still a movement that should be studied as a historic event.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

Fun 1L activity: On the first day of 1L year ask your professor whether the notes after the cases are important or not. They'll say "yes." Next class, read one of the note cases listed in a long string of citations, and ask the prof a detailed question about it in class.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

One of the reasons I love writing law review articles is that they're so avidly read by practicing lawyers. The articles we professors write are the bread and butter of law practice.

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Robert Anderson

@ProfRobAnderson

5 years

Good news. A lot of law professors have commented to let me know this type of unconscious bias doesn’t apply to their exams.

Robert Anderson

@ProfRobAnderson

5 years

Law students: Remember to echo your professor's ideology on your final exams! If you haven't noticed this on Twitter, many profs are incapable of separating "is" from "ought," acknowledging trade-offs, or recognizing the validity of counterarguments. There are many exceptions.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I don't teach law students "the law." Law students can learn "the law" anywhere, for free. But they can only learn about my opinions from me, and that's what they really want to pay for.

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Robert Anderson

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4 months

I had a dream last night that I’d written a paper arguing that the state of Delaware was unconstitutional—the whole state. At a workshop people were like, “But wasn’t it the first state to ratify the Constitution, so how is it unconstitutional?” And I didn’t have a great answer.

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Robert Anderson

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1 year

Wild pigs are remarkably cognizant of state lines.

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Robert Anderson

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7 years

I don't mean to be critical, but this "therapist" is a quack.

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Robert Anderson

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3 years

One thing that would be really useful for casebooks to include is a set of hypothetical questions after each case that are unanswered and unanswerable.

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Robert Anderson

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9 months

We often hear law firms asking why law schools don't focus more on preparing students for practice. A big part of the reason is that large law firms don't seem to prioritize this practical training in hiring graduates. It's pretty much class rank + prestige of law school. 1/

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

Every year I put this multiple-choice question on my final exam, just to add a little humor to a stressful situation!

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Robert Anderson

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5 years

I think law professor teaching would improve if we were required to *take* at least one required course we don't teach (including sitting for the the final exam) every year, rotating through all of them every decade or so.

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Robert Anderson

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5 years

Dear incoming 1Ls: Did you know that your casebooks actually function normally outside the library, even on the beach, along a shady hiking trail, or by the lake? Get outside once in a while. Your mental health will be better and your grades might be too.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

What if… and this is purely hypothetical…Yale, Harvard and Stanford *aren’t* motivated primarily by the greater good?

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Robert Anderson

@ProfRobAnderson

2 years

Has anybody ever heard of these law firms in the Twitter lawsuit?what is Skadden Earps and Walk Tell anyway? With all their money, why didn’t they hire a law firm anyone’s heard of?

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I’m really excited to announce that starting in the fall I’m moving to the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville ( @UARKLaw )! We’ve wanted to move to Arkansas for a while now to be close to family, and it just happened to work out this year, which is the perfect timing 1/

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Robert Anderson

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4 months

@TeslaBoomerMama @_MountainsSea The whole thing is recorded at . Go to "new recordings" and then "house session" from yesterday. The bill came up towards the end, maybe at 6:35PM or so. Well worth it!

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

The real value in law school casebooks that justifies the price is the unanswerable questions that follow the cases (with no answers).

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I invented a neat new teaching approach I call "sadistic Socratic method." I call on a student, then they choose another student for me to pose a question to. If the second student gets the question wrong, the original student gets extra credit deducted from the second one. Fun!

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Robert Anderson

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3 years

All conferences should henceforth be held in Kansas City, which is the closest major city to the geographic and population centers of the contiguous U.S.

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Robert Anderson

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2 months

I’m thrilled to announce that I will be teaching Contracts to ALL of the 1Ls at the University of Arkansas this fall. So if there’s any sort of mass breakdown in contracting in Arkansas after about 3 years, you know who to blame.

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Robert Anderson

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@earthcurated Hoo took the picture?

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Robert Anderson

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7 months

The horrible Baltimore Key Bridge accident will be covered under admiralty jurisdiction because of the Admiralty Extension Act of 1948. Maritime lien on the ship. More to come.

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Robert Anderson

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2 months

The first year of law school is hard, so I'm going to start defining some terms with "Rob's 1L Glossary." First up, holding versus dicta in an opinion. Holding: Words in the case that go your way. Dicta: Words in a case that don't go your way.

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Robert Anderson

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1 year

The stakes of law school 1L exams are high, probably way too high. I often wonder what the causal effect on lifetime earnings is of a single A versus B grade in a typical middle-ranked law school. I wouldn’t be surprised if the present value was tens of thousands or more.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I was just reading a brief in a federal appellate maritime case, and was like like "Woah" to a sentence it quoted from an 1800s SCOTUS case, because I'd never heard it before and went against my thesis. Turns out the brief quoted the party's argument as if it were the opinion.😱

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

The LSAT should add a math section.

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Robert Anderson

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6 months

OK, I think I will go ahead with a free summer "course" giving an introduction to MARITIME LAW for whoever is interested, wherever you are in the world! You can be a student, attorney, or just someone interested. I plan to meet on Zoom/Teams once a week to go through the 1/3

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6 months

I think there are quite a few law students and recent grads who would like to take a basic maritime law course but don't have one available to them. I'm thinking of offering something like that online if enough people are interested.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

That’s like saying that all litigators do is “say bad words on speakerphone.” Sure, that’s most of what they do, but they also send threatening emails.

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Robert Anderson

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1 year

Medieval sea laws apparently imposed strict liability for rat damages on masters of ships who did not have a cat on board.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I'm grateful to be publishing "The Sea Corporation" with the @Cornell_L_Rev ! This paper shows how maritime law independently developed the economic features of the modern corporation, based on co-ownership of the merchant ship. A revised draft with more details coming soon!

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Robert Anderson

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11 months

I wonder how much of the perception of lawyer salaries (and perhaps law school applications) result from people seeing these numbers and recognizing they’re the high end, but thinking most entry level lawyers are just moderately lower, not realizing the bimodal distribution.

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New salary scale for law firm associates at Cravath and 17 other large law firms. This is not a small amount of money.

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Robert Anderson

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1 year

People: Why would you leave California? Me: This is a home currently for sale for $2.8 million in the town where I live.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I have curated a large database of poison pills from the 1980s to present. I compared the Twitter poison pill to them and found what appears to be the "precedent" document for the Twitter pill. The precedent is from the poison pill of Woodward, Inc., adopted April 5, 2020. 1/

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Robert Anderson

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3 years

An under-appreciated nuance of SpongeBob is that it takes place mostly within admiralty jurisdiction.

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Robert Anderson

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28 days

@visegrad24 I think I might have a theory about how the fire started.

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Robert Anderson

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4 months

Incoming 1Ls: At this point in the summer you’re probably pretty busy finishing up your fall outlines and starting to take sample exams for finals. But don’t forget to do something just for fun, like reading “The Common Law” by OW Holmes Jr.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

A lot of so-called lawyers QTing saying they already discovered this. That’s easy to say now once I’ve already told you about it

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

If law schools have some classes entirely online in the fall, in a way that frees you from geographical restrictions. Why not work out some reciprocity deals with other law schools so that you could mix students from different schools to expand course offerings to students?

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Robert Anderson

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1 year

A phylogenetic tree of poison pills in the 1980s labeled by firm that drafted them. Law firms like to copy their own poison pills. Only a few firms drafted their own versions--most copied from others.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I'm sort of glad that Twitter didn't exist when I was in law school. I enjoyed imagining my professors spending all day thinking deep thoughts, rather than basically "man yelling at cloud."

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Robert Anderson

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1 month

@visegrad24 Seriously what’s up with this guy’s outfit. Is it naturally like that or is he doing a Marilyn Monroe subway vent scene?

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Robert Anderson

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8 months

When I interviewed at Wachtell a million years ago, one of the associates described the big selling point (besides $) as the fact that they brought unlimited food in the office and even picked up and delivered laundry there, so he "literally never needed to leave the office."

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Robert Anderson

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4 months

@TeslaBoomerMama @_MountainsSea I watched the livestream. Almost everybody in that room appeared to understand the damage the Chancellor is doing to the state’s lucrative chartering business. Chandler mentioned it multiple times.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

I found this “research” game camera on campus, and my first thought is to get dressed up in a gorilla suit and wander around it at night.

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Robert Anderson

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5 years

@AndrewYang True, which is why parents need emergency childcare and schools shouldn’t get funded based on attendance.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

Moderna know how much I love you Moderna know how much I care When you put your mRNA around me I get a fever that's so hard to bear You give me fever, When you antibody me right Fever from your spike protein sight Fever Immune in the morning, a fever all through the night

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Robert Anderson

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9 months

This is how you do conflict of laws.

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Robert Anderson

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5 years

Law students, you should follow your professors on Twitter. Superficially, it gives you insight into the interests and thought processes of the prof grading you. More meaningfully, *thoughtful* engagement with ideas makes you seem more like a colleague, less like a student. 1/2

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

Law practice tip: You can now use an electronic database to Shepardize a case, without looking in the physical books and supplements.

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Robert Anderson

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3 years

Advice to 1Ls: If the prof calls on you and you haven't read the case, just say "I think this case is just the court struggling with competing ideals of efficiency and fairness." If that doesn't work & prof asks you to go on, just say, "It's beyond the scope of this class." 1/

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Robert Anderson

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3 years

I toured Oxford today, and surprisingly the guide didn’t even mention the distinctive comma that made the town famous.

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Robert Anderson

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9 months

When I was a law student I legitimately believed you became a law professor by being the best lawyer, like in Top Gun.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

Great way to tell the difference between a JD and an MBA: Tell them what they just said is actionable.

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Robert Anderson

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4 years

Political stuff law professors contribute to.

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Robert Anderson

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6 months

Law schools in a red states face an unenviable challenge. They need to somehow recruit professors who will could be comfortable in a red state but not, you know, comfortable comfortable.

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Robert Anderson

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5 months

Someone was paying attention!

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5 months

In honor of @ProfRobAnderson 's admiralty law class starting, I present this meme.

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Robert Anderson

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2 years

I really still haven't heard any persuasive arguments for why we couldn't just have law school as a bachelor's degree, possibly 5 years in length, and let people sit for the bar after that. It seems to work most everywhere else in the world.

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Robert Anderson

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5 years

I forced a bot to read over 1,000 pages of SCOTUS oral argument transcripts and it can now predict the question Justice Thomas will ask with 99.9% accuracy.

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