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A Response To How Ai Destroys Institutions, Andrew M. Perlman

SMU Law Review Forum

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Why I Use Ai To Assist With Legal Scholarship, Michael J. Showalter

SMU Law Review Forum

In early 2026, I wrote a short law review article, with Claude’s junior-associate assistance, in roughly fifteen hours. I was so stunned by Claude’s effectiveness that I promptly started a law firm to replicate my productivity gains for clients. But I viewed my decision to use modern technology as unremarkable—no more surprising than a lawyer skipping the law library for Westlaw when it was invented.

Unexpectedly, my story went viral on social media and polarized the legal academy. Before anyone had read the article—its identity was not initially disclosed—some professors labeled it “plagiarism,” “academic dishonesty,” and “slop.” One simply assumed, …

Dishonorable Machines: Why And How To Resist Trial By Ai Judges, Kyle Singhal

SMU Law Review Forum

Just as humans trust human doctors to treat human ills, we trust human judges to resolve human disputes. A doctor may employ artificial intelligence (AI) tools to aid in diagnosis, but the doctor ultimately decides what to prescribe, and the doctor bears accountability for that choice. This Article argues that judging demands the same boundary: AI may assist as a tool, but it must not replace human decision-making.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, in light of AI’s recent gains in its ability to process large quantities of seemingly complex material, some scholars and practitioners have contended otherwise, urging that at least some judging …

Government Censorship In Comedy, Campbell E. Gavin

The Dialogue

This paper examines the role of public administration in shaping and restricting comedic expression in the United States, specifically focusing on the FCC’s regulation of broadcast media, targeting stand-up comedians and late-night show hosts. By applying Weber's and Wilson's theories of bureaucracy the paper analyzes how administrative power influences the boundaries of acceptable speech, through legal frameworks and discourse theory. An important court case involving governmental regulation of comedic speech was the FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. This case sets the stage for administrative power to grow in terms of limiting freedom of speech and paving the way for new administrations, …

National Security Law, Ogra Cadet, Geoffrey Goodale, Laurence R. Hull, Renee Latour, Barbara Linney, Jonathan Meyer, Guy C. Quinlan, Minji "Mj" Shin, Christopher Vallandingham, Bonnie C. Weinstein

The Year in Review

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International Trade, Jordan C. Kahn, Dharmendra N. Choudhary, Joe A. Spraragen, Geoffrey A. Goodale, Kavita Mohan, Theodore P. Brackemyre, Paul Devamithran, Laura El-Sabaawi, Jake Frischknecht, Nicole Hager, Elizabeth Lee, Claire Webster

The Year in Review

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International Animal Law, Tala Dibenedetto, Edie Bowles, Paula Cardoso, Daina Bray, Rajesh K. Reddy, Regina Paulose

The Year in Review

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Export Controls And Economic Sanctions, John Boscariol, J. Patrick Briscoe, Sylvia Costelloe, John Kabealo, Oksana Migitko, Mary Mikhaeel, Timothy O'Toole, Mollie Sitkowski, Christopher Stagg, Lawrence Ward

The Year in Review

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Customs Law, Adrienne Braumiller, David J. Glynn, Geoffrey Goodale, Jennifer Horvath, Harold Jackson, George Tuttle Iii, Dana Watts

The Year in Review

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International Human Rights, Daniel L. Appelman, John Regis Coogan, Cyreka Jacobs, Cailen Labarge, Corinne E. Lewis, Kerry Mclean, Hind Merabet, Linda S. Murnane, Thomas A. O'Keefe, Sara Sandford, Wendy Taube, James Taylor, Constance Z. Wagner

The Year in Review

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International Family Law, Robert G. Spector, Melissa A. Kucinski

The Year in Review

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Russia/Eurasia, Kimberly D. Reed, Timur Bondaryev, Denis Karimov, Anton Rekun, Tetiana Storozhuk

The Year in Review

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Europe, Duncan Gorst, Luigi Pavanello, Willem Den Hertog, Jonathan A. Mcgowan

The Year in Review

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Africa, Anne Bodley, Zachary Combs, Vanessa Suarez Galvés, Lucie Guégan, Charlotte Favaro, Sara Frazão, Laverne Lewis Gaskins, Tyler Holmes, Lincon Majogo, Myriam Mossi, Julien Naginski, Galindo Aliyo Ruhiyyah, Ricardo Alves Silva, Tania Tossa, Carneil Wilson, Chitalu Yalobi, José Diogo Sampaio

The Year in Review

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Women's Interest Network, Julie King, Christine Korper, Abiola Afolayan, Marie Elena Angulo, Michela Cocchi, Angela M. Gallerizzo, Dolly Hernandez, Margaret Kamm, Dana Katz, Kendra Muller, Sierra Paola, Vanessa Romero Rocha, Aina Serret, Sandhya Taneja, Catherine Van Kampen

The Year in Review

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International Litigation, Jonathan I. Blackman, Carmine D. Boccuzzi, Theodore J. Folkman, Phillip B. Dye Jr., Matthew D. Slater, Mark Mcdonald, Ari Mackinnon, Igor V. Timofeyev, Joseph R. Profaizer

The Year in Review

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International Criminal Law, International Courts, And Judicial Affairs, Manish N. Bhatt, Giovanni Chiarini, Katherine Maddox Davis, Beth Farmer, Timothy Franklin, Cyreka C. Jacobs, Stéphane De Navacelle, Sara L. Ochs, Alexander S. Vesselinovitch, Melissa Ginsberg, Marc Weitz, Julie Zorrilla

The Year in Review

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International Arbitration, Sergey Petrachkov, Dmitry Kuptsov, Saglar Ochirova, Oksana Karel, Daryna Hrebeniuk, Robert J.C. Deane, Jeffrey Rosenthal, Katie Gonzalez, Katerina Wright, Caoimhe Clarkin, Marcus Walsh, Bella Chan, Keara A. Bergin, Christopher P. Denicola, Peter Ashford, Kate Felmingham, Aline Dias, Antonio Canales, Grëtel Cannon, Ashley Chandler, Marianne Chao, Mercedes Fernández, Gustavo A. Galindo, Melissa Stear Gorsline, Benjamin Holloway, Haifeng Huang, Elie Kleiman, Viktoriia Korynevych, Annie Leeks, Fernando F. Pastore, Maria I. Pradilla Picas, Iris Sauvagnac, Jiahui Sheng, Darya Vakulenko, José Antonio Vázquez Cobo, Sharon Yiu, Lars Markert, Christina Nitsche, Anthony Lynch, Héctor Scaianschi Márquez, Preeti Bhangnani, Eric Lenier Ives, Tom Pearson

The Year in Review

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International Tax, Giovanna Bernal, Paul D. Carman, Wiebe De Vries, Sunita Doobay, Johan Myrén, Michael Robinson, Dave Sherwin

The Year in Review

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International Transportation Law, James Henry Bergeron, Attilio M. Costabel, Andrew M. Danas, Gregory C. Maddaleni, Rebecca Fenneman

The Year in Review

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International M&A And Joint Ventures, Renata Antiquera, Jason Saltzman, Sydney Dennis-Birnbaum, Francisco Ugarte, Alejandra Daroch, Luigi Pavanello, Pawel Sikora, Anton Dzhuplin, Kristina Akalovich, Natella Kortiashvili, Albert Garrofé, Idoya Fernández, Lola Tejero, Mark Howard

The Year in Review

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South Asia/Oceania & India, Namrata P. Rastogi, Aseem Chawla, Soniya Dodeja, Sanjay Notani, Naghm Ghei, Amit Gupta, Vidhi Goel, Hari Sankar Mahapatra, Katherine Maddox Davis, Alisa Rukbankerd

The Year in Review

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China, Yanling Zheng

The Year in Review

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Mexico, Kelsey Quigley, Josè Luis Lizárraga, John Walsh, Danielle Morris, Maria Camila Hoyos, David Ross, Lauren Mandell, Noah Guiney, Carlo Cannizzo, Enrique García, Vanessa Romero

The Year in Review

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Canada, Jacob Mantle, Danny Yeo, Peter Jarosz, Tayler Farrell, Gannon Beaulne, Megan Steeves, Adam Mauntah, Salma Kebeich

The Year in Review

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The Bridwell Quill, April-September, Issues 92–97, Anthony Elia

Bridwell Library Publications

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The Method And The Machinery: Gloria Steinem, India, And The Cold War Making Of American Second Wave Feminsim, 1956-1972, Rashida Shafiq

History Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation argues that Gloria Steinem became one of the most visible feminists of her generation because two political inheritances — postcolonial India and the Cold War liberal United States — converged in a single career. In 1957 and 1958, on a Chester Bowles Asian Fellowship, Steinem spent eighteen months in India, where she moved from elite intellectual circles in Delhi to Gandhian and Sarvodaya peace work in the villages of Ramnad. Walking with Bhoodan fieldworkers through caste-riot-stricken communities, she absorbed a repertoire of organizing practices — listening across difference, lateral and leaderless structure, decision by consensus, and the conversion …

Measuring Cosmic Expansion From Early To Late Times Using Quasars, Galaxies, & Local Supernovae, Rajeev Vaisakh

Physics Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation investigates the evolution of cosmic expansion across a wide redshift ($z$) range by combining measurements from quasars \& galaxies in the distant universe $(z > 0.8)$ with those obtained from stripped-core collapse supernovae observations from the nearby universe $(z < 0.1)$. Using the DESI spectroscopic survey, we analyze large-scale clustering from quasars over $0.8 < z < 2.1$ and emission line galaxies over $0.8 < z < 1.6$, contributing to DESI DR2 BAO and full-shape measurements of cosmic expansion and structure growth. Combined with BBN in flat $\Lambda$CDM, DESI DR2 BAO gives $H_0 = 68.51 \pm 0.58$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$, while combinations of DESI BAO with CMB and supernova data show a preference for evolving dark energy, with representative constraints such as $w_0 = -0.752 \pm 0.057$ and $w_a = -0.86^{+0.23}_{-0.20}$ for DESI+CMB+DESY5. Using the ROTSE-III Supernova Survey and the expanding photosphere method (EPM), we measure distances to a sample of six supernovae for which the thermal phase can be clearly identified. This analysis focuses on testing whether reliable EPM distances can be obtained for this population. The resulting distances will eventually be compared with independent estimates from the literature. Establishing consistency with these external measurements represents an important step toward applying this methodology to larger samples, with the eventual goal of using ROTSE supernova distances to provide an independent measurement of the local Hubble constant.

Cultivating Narratives: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Higher Education Student-Led Farms And Gardens, Maximilan Sherard, Marc T. Sager

Publications

Despite extensive research on community agriculture, little attention has been paid to student-led farms or gardens (SFGs) in higher education contexts. SFGs represent a unique site for community agriculture due to their diverse stakeholders, academic affiliations, and the institutional policies they navigate. This study examines online promotional materials from 42 SFGs located on land-grant higher education campuses across the United States. Using critical discourse analysis, we (1) map these organizations’ practices and (2) identify competing discourses about community and agriculture within their promotional narratives. We identify and explain four core practices (membership, growing, distribution, and purpose) and connect these practices …

Essays In Applied Microeconomics, Md Tahmeed Hossain

Economics Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation contributes to empirical economics research by examining three settings in which historical shocks, behavioral constraints, and localized public events affect social relations, decision quality, and public safety. The first chapter examines the persistence of historical religious conflict in contemporary Hindu–Muslim relations in India. The second chapter studies how time pressure affects decision quality in online chess. The third chapter analyzes the localized traffic-safety externalities of NFL game days. Across these settings, the dissertation uses large-scale data and quasi-experimental research designs to distinguish causal effects from selection, spatial concentration, and persistent local conditions.

The first chapter asks whether historical …