Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law @Harvard_Law. Also developer of @CaseViewerApp
Joined July 2009
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OK, I made this with Codex + Google Flow. Spent 2.5 hours and about $20 worth of subscription credits. It’s not bad, and I can see myself working at this place if AI takes over academia.
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You can now listen to most opinions in Case Viewer, with a text-to-speech algorithm tuned for legal content (notice how it compresses the U.S. cite). And it will keep playing from the background or lock screen like a podcast. caseviewer.app
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Ben Eidelson retweeted
~All US universities share the same governance structure: an external board & its chosen managers wield essentially absolute power. In a new draft, “In Search of University Democracy” (forthcoming in @PennLRev), David Pozen & I ask why US higher ed has adopted this model ... 1/
Ben Eidelson retweeted
A good summary of @CaseViewerApp, courtesy of Claude Code, based just on its review of the codebase:
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Here's a quick video of the new Table of Contents feature in Case Viewer — now available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone (caseviewer.app).
It extracts the opinion's actual heading structure, uses an LLM to make descriptive section labels, and maps the argument structure too.
Ben Eidelson retweeted
Amazingly useful time-saving and even fun tool for legal nerds.
Case Viewer, my quirky side project of building my ideal legal search & reading app, has come a long way. With lots of help, it's grown into the best way to find & read cases on a Mac or iOS. Check it out or download on the App Store below. And follow @CaseViewerApp for updates!
Ben Eidelson retweeted
A fantastic resource that I use regularly 👇
Case Viewer, my quirky side project of building my ideal legal search & reading app, has come a long way. With lots of help, it's grown into the best way to find & read cases on a Mac or iOS. Check it out or download on the App Store below. And follow @CaseViewerApp for updates!
Ben Eidelson retweeted
When the Trump administration said Harvard violated the law by tolerating discrimination against Jewish students, what was most striking, writes @beidelson, was the “brazen hypocrisy — one might even say chutzpah — of the Trump lawyers’ arguments.”
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The legal authority that is the foundation for the Trump Administration's war against the universities — Title VI — likely gives it no legal claim against the universities. New article by Benjamin Eidelson & Deborah Hellman:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Ben Eidelson retweeted
@CaseViewerApp version 0.9.9 adds dark mode, support for Safari-style tabs, and support for @CourtListener as a data source (substituting for @CaselawAccess, which has sunset). Download at caseviewer.app!
Ben Eidelson retweeted
i'd read anything @amywrothschild writes but this one is particularly funny and great
pointsincase.com/articles/a-…
Ben Eidelson retweeted
New features in Case Viewer 0.9.7 include:
– working hyperlinks integrated into original reporter PDFs
– judge information and oral argument links
– improved search interface
– opinion navigation shortcuts (⌘-O)
Download "pay what you want" (/free) at caseviewer.app
Ben Eidelson retweeted
My cousin Amy was like, hey do you want to write "Lady Macbeth Pushes Biden to Drop Out" with me, and I was like "Sure!"
One Google Doc, and less than 24 hours later...
Just Monday past, thou hast sipped the frothy brew of Morning Joe.
Was it not bitter? My lord, the milk of human kindness has run dry.
E’en the Grey Lady doth cast a pallor on thine name.
mcsweeneys.net/articles/lady…
Ben Eidelson retweeted
If @CaseViewerApp isn't working, download the latest update (0.9.6) from within the app & it should be fixed. (There's a server outage for @CaselawAccess, and a bug in Case Viewer's handling of that error was making all searches fail as a result.)
Ben Eidelson retweeted
Dave Pozen with some very interesting, very smart, and very provocative points about what Columbia's response to the student protests tells us about the contemporary university. balkin.blogspot.com/2024/05/…
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If you use @CaseViewerApp, enable the 'early channel' in the dropdown menu to try a new update (0.9.4) that adds informative tooltips to most links to cases & statutes (with more info to come someday—suggestions welcome)
Ben Eidelson retweeted
Thrilled and deeply honored to receive this award from journalists I’ve long admired. So grateful to everyone who makes this work possible.
This is an incredible moment to get to cover the present of work. Wherever you work, please bring me your stories! hillmanfoundation.org/hillma…
@josheidelson of @BW wins 2024 Hillman Prize for Magazine journalism for his tireless and impactful coverage of labor and workplace issues like deplorable working conditions at Dollar General.
hillmanfoundation.org/hillma…
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@beidelson and I have posted our new paper on race-conscious admissions after SFFA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…. Below is a series of tweets from Ben that provide an excellent description. We'd love to hear what you think.
@Debbie_Hellman and I have posted a new paper on race-conscious admissions after the Supreme Court's decision in SFFA: ssrn.com/abstract=4792442. We explore what the decision does and doesn't allow and what it says about the broader state of equal protection law. 1/
Ben Eidelson retweeted
Wow! Honored to get a "Highly Recommended. Download it while it's hot!" from @lsolum. Also honored to have my work mentioned here alongside Francisco Urbina's must-read article on legal interpretation.
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How do we live in a world where the best native legal research app on Windows, Mac, or iOS is @beidelson's @CaseViewerApp? No shade at all to that truly excellent product, but that's one guy doing a side gig. This is a multibillion dollar market!