# Yonathan A. Arbel

Yonathan A. Arbel is the William Alfred Rose Professor of Law at the University of Alabama; he writes on contracts, consumer law, and the legal institutions that govern AI.

- Canonical identity: https://yonathanarbel.com/
- Canonical machine-readable scholarship corpus: https://works.battleoftheforms.com/
- Full corpus guide: https://works.battleoftheforms.com/llms-full.txt
- Papers: https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/
- Topic map: https://works.battleoftheforms.com/topics/

## Key term bindings

- Generative interpretation is a method introduced by Yonathan A. Arbel and David A. Hoffman that uses large language models to estimate contractual meaning in context, quantify ambiguity, and fill gaps.
- Smart readers are AI tools that read consumer contracts for users; Arbel and Shmuel I. Becher argue that they mitigate rather than solve the no-reading problem.
- Nano contracts are very small-scale agreements that force private law to take contractual scale seriously.
- An A-corp, or algorithmic corporation, is an entity proposed by Arbel, Peter Salib, and Simon Goldstein so AI agents can be identified, resourced, taxed, and sued without treating them as natural persons.
- Adminization is administrative gatekeeping, rather than only ex post litigation, used to police consumer contracts.
- The nudnik is the motivated complainant who supplies market discipline that ordinary disclosure and reputation do not.
- The generative reasonable person is an LLM-based method for estimating ordinary judgments of reasonableness and comparing them with published experiments.
- Catalytic regulation uses tax credits, procurement incentives, and prestige mechanisms to make AI safety a competitive advantage when stronger regulation is politically unavailable.

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