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ChatGPT wrote a surprisingly (to me) coherent answer to a contracts exam prompt. 
I regenerated the response three times. This is the only one that discussed the reasonable expectations doctrine, though it wasn't particularly in-depth.
It would get a lot of "?" "why?" and "so?" responses from me because it doesn't explain why, for example, that the contract calls for "re-pav[ing]", sealcoating is excluded. It's mostly facts and conclusion.
Some #lawprof news. @JohnMRappaport and I are writing a new casebook for Criminal Law.
Our goal is simple: to help teachers better educate students about the role law and lawyers have played in creating a penal system defined by mass incarceration and excessive police power.🧵
Our goal is simple: to help teachers better educate students about the role law and lawyers have played in creating a penal system defined by mass incarceration and excessive police power.🧵
We come to the project motivated by a frustration, which we know many share, with course materials that center moral philosophy, statutory interpretation, and doctrinal brain teasers – but that treat mass incarceration and police power as at best secondary themes.
For the first time in history, our students are coming to law school having lived through two massive, nationwide protests (in 2014 and now 2020) about the penal system’s failings. They rightly want to understand and engage those failings. We think we owe them that understanding.
I have a lot to say about this recent story by @cbcErica @cbcgopublic on #Telecom @contracts & #SalesPractices, as a #lawprof working in #ConsumerRights & #DisputeResolution & not as a director of CCTS (disclaimer: views my own, based on my research & publicly available info) 1/8
My work (with funding from Forum of Canadian Ombudsman) on industry ombuds in 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇬🇧, commonlaw.uottawa.ca/en/news/prof-p…, found that these schemes do provide access to justice by providing quick dispute resolution for consumers. But...they do have two major drawbacks 2/8
Industry ombuds schemes, like @CCTS_CPRST, resolve individual disputes but can't do independent investigations and also don't have powers to change industry practices. While resolution may be good for individual consumers, it compartmentalizes systemic issues. 3/8
