Milan Markovic

We lost our beloved dog Monty yesterday. A fiercely independent rescue, with strong likes (sunbathing, toy hedgehogs) and dislikes (rain, horses), he was a part of too many cherished moments to count. Rescuing Monty in 2013 was one of the greatest honors of my life. RIP--you were a very good boy.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Live from Watt Hall with Milan & Mike: Syllabus Silliness. Have a listen:

Does anyone actually read the syllabus? Apparently so! @mbkplus.bsky.social and I debate who should be calling the shots on what is and is not taught in university courses.

Does anyone actually read the syllabus? Apparently so! @mbkplus.bsky.social and I debate who should be calling the shots on what is and is not taught in university courses.

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Live from Watt Hall with Milan & Mike: Syllabus Silliness. Have a listen:

Lula is to my left. Magyar is to my right. And I don’t care in the slightest, because they are the candidates of democracy against autocracy.

After Hungary, Serbia takes its turn to show the power of the people ft.trib.al/OIW6dnE

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

For legal market watchers (a niche group on @bsky.app), Kirkland's growth is not receiving enough attention, imo. For example, it entered Texas in 2014 and is now the largest firm in the state by headcount. It will probably reach 1,000 lawyers in the state in the next five to ten years.

Tune in Monday!

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

The ICC has outstanding arrest warrants against two national leaders for war crimes. One of whom the Trump administration just lauded as a "humanitarian" and the other one President Trump endorsed for reelection. And of course the Trump administration is trying to destroy the ICC.

I see that there is a wapo story a few days ago about the office of legal counsel so this is my cue to remind you that the best time to have abolished OLC was the day after it was formed, the second best was the day after torture memos, and the third best is today.

I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. Then Donald Trump reminded me that he correctly identified a giraffe on an emergency cognitive exam.

Sign of the times: a number of constitutional law scholars appear to be rebranding as AI & the law experts.

I realize there is a Circuit split on this question, but one could be forgiven for believing that SCOTUS supports the Miller / Dhillon vision of education.

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Yeah, the problem with the tweet *wasn’t* that it violated “CBS News standards.”

I just did a spot on @smerconish.bsky.social's radio show on this. Whatever one thinks about the law school graduate / lawyer distinction, Zacharia served as the general counsel of a non-profit without being a member of any state bar. That is unauthorized practice of law and a crime.

Stuff like this is why the Canadian political establishment is (correctly, IMO) assuming that Democrats can NOT be trusted to return the bilateral relationship to the status quo ante going forward.

“Is the Court good” and “Are the courts good” are severable questions, but in a world in which the Court doesn’t respect the courts I think we need to protect the latter by taking an aggressive stance towards the former.

This is a fascinating exchange. Healy unsurprisingly comes off as defensive, but what is most revealing is his belief that @nytimes.com reporters should not be arbiters of truth.

TBH I don't have strong feelings about a law school graduate sporadically saying "lawyer" even without a bar license, so long as they don't take on duped clients. But "outside counsel" to the World Bank and "General Counsel" for a nonprofit are definitely false claims of being a licensed attorney.

The Justice Department is threatening an antitrust lawsuit against the American Bar Association (which ED is trying to derecognize as an accreditor) over its requirement that most first-year law school classes be taught by full-time faculty. The handling attorney at DOJ is an adjunct at Catholic.

Assume Ms. Zacharia eventually passes the bar exam and seeks admission in DC. Can the admission authorities deny her based on her earlier misrepresentation of her qualifications?

Here is Alito getting one of his many standing ovations from conservative groups.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Increasingly convinced that Schumer's social media is performance art.

My kids have measles, I can’t afford diesel, I lost my job, and my country just lost a war to Iran. But at least now I can watch firing squad executions on TV.

Well, that is certainly a way of picking a law school dean that will produce a result.

Amidst the hype around AI, we seem to have memory holed that traditional search engines were quite useful and would expose users to multiple reliable sources.

#Lawsky may be interested in this episode because @mbkplus.bsky.social and I discuss hallucinations and a certain legal AI company that wines and dines law professors.

#Lawsky may be interested in this episode because @mbkplus.bsky.social and I discuss hallucinations and a certain legal AI company that wines and dines law professors.

@mbkplus.bsky.social and I are back to gawk at AI's impact on universities. AI is juicing scholarly outputs, standing in for provosts, receiving credit for discoveries, and "optimizing student and faculty workflows." Is this the new normal or a betrayal of the core mission?

@mbkplus.bsky.social and I are back to gawk at AI's impact on universities. AI is juicing scholarly outputs, standing in for provosts, receiving credit for discoveries, and "optimizing student and faculty workflows." Is this the new normal or a betrayal of the core mission?

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Live from Watt Hall with Milan & Mike: The AI University. Have a listen:

Tune in to "the AI University" on Monday, friends!

I received a similar comment once about a paper on lawyers' careers. I wasn't offended so much as perplexed--shouldn't law professors care about what their students will be doing? Unprofessional is apt.

Justice Roberts.

You know there is a bubble when legal AI companies are resorting to wining and dining law professors.

The Newsom/Schumer wing of the Democratic Party is betting that it can get the oligarchs back onside post-Trump.

We don't have the data alas, but I would wager that law schools are among the worst offenders. See also www.templelawreview.org/essay/the-la...

ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”

I was wondering what the anti-ABA positioning was all about.