I wanted to get a feel for myself of how well Masked Language Models perform at uncovering masks. This is a fairly trivial exercise, but I wanted to do it myself to get a better intuition of relative performance. Maybe it’ll be helpful to you as well, code on the bottom. The Tasks: Answer these…
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In theory, smart contracts do not depend on the blockchain. In practice, however, most applications do connect the two. Here I investigate the strength of the link by analyzing Github repositories. I used a Python script to go through all the repositories that fit the search query “smart contracts.” The (very raw) code is appended…
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This is the previous draft of our forthcoming paper, Yonathan A. Arbel & Murat Mungan, Defamation Law with Bayesian Audiences, Forthcoming Journal of Legal Studies. The draft is titled “Regulating Information with Bayesian Audiences“

What is going on with L&E? There are many trends in the field, most clearly the the inexorable and partly excessive rush to empirical work. In this spirit, I thought we might be able to learn something from a more quantitative approach. To that end, I scrapped the website of the American Law & Economics…
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Lay people like to think that contracts have to be in writing. This is only true in specific situations and even then it’s not entirely correct. A set of rules known collectively as the Statute of Frauds makes it necessary to have some things in writing if you want to enforce the contract. This requirement…
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Post quarantine it’s been harder to keep the same schedule, and ironically or not, going to school led to a serious slowdown in the kids’ academic development. Still, we keep on doing Anki (“The Honesty Game”) every day. Their decks include: (a) Multiplication table (1-12) (b) Division (1-12) (c) Powers and roots (simple ones: 2^2,…
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Hills v. Gateway 2000 105 F.3d 1147 (1997) generates a lot of controversies, which is appropriate since the decision is pretty much wrong. (No, battle of the forms does not require forms, a single form is enough). I want to offer a simple outline of the various logical possibilities, including my favorite one. We have…
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If there is one principle that’s key to understanding contract damages is that the legal system is terrified of someone getting more compensation than what they deserve. One mustn’t profit from a breach of K. Put the non-breaching party in the position they would’ve occupied but for the breach, but not a better one. What…
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Pink Slime BPI original complaint.