In this episode, Valentin Jeutner, Associate Professor of Law at Lund University and Retained Lecturer in Law at Pembroke College, Oxford University, discusses his book "[l]ex machina: unlikely encounters of international law and technology," which is published by Lund University. Jeutner begins by introducing listeners to conceptual legal writing, describing its relationship to conceptual art and conceptual writing. He provides a preliminary taxonomy of conceptual legal writing and explains his own practice of conceptual legal writing. In particular, he reflects on how conceptual legal writing can help readers see legal texts in a new and different light. He also reads a short text composed using a conceptual legal writing method. You can read Jeutner's "Fragmentary Catalogue of Conceptual Legal Writing" here, and his book "The Aesthetic Authority of Law: Experiments with Legal Form" here. Jeutner is on Bluesky.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social.

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In this episode, Sharon Yadin, Senior Lecturer of Law and Regulation at the Yezreel Valley College School of Public Administration and Public Policy, discusses her draft article "The Hidden Nature of Regulation," which will be published in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. Yadin begins by describing the conventional bifurcation of regulation into "hard" and "soft" approaches. She observes that in practice, regulation is always negotiated between regulators and regulated parties. And she explains how this alternative perspective on the nature of regulation should inflect our approach to it. Yadin is on Twitter and Bluesky.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social.

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In this episode, Jorge L. Contreras, Distinguished University Professor, James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law, and Director of the Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, discusses his draft article "Silly Patents." Contreras begins by describing why patents exist and how the patent system works. He observes that some patents are unusually "silly," because it doesn't seem like they should exist. He explains why the Patent Office issues silly patents and reflects on what they can tell us about the patent system. Contreras is on Twitter and Bluesky.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social.

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