Edith Beerdsen
@edithbeerdsen.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Temple Law School in Philadephia. Scientific Evidence, Civ Pro, litigation culture. She/zij/היא. https://ssrn.com/author=2745040
Worth reading in its entirety, on “healthy frictions.”
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Worth reading in its entirety, on “healthy frictions.”
Intriguing new metric. Very curious to see future work on how it correlates with replicability, spin, etc.
New paper finds that selective reporting remains the most replicable finding in science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... I especially like their new exploratory metric 'p-values per participant'. Some papers had 11 p-values per participant! 🤯
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October 31, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Intriguing new metric. Very curious to see future work on how it correlates with replicability, spin, etc.
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I just posted the current version of my most recent Article, "Conceptual Gerrymandering and the Weaponization of SFFA" to @ssrn.bsky.social. Abstract and TOC are attached below. Comments and (good faith) critiques very much welcome and appreciated. 🧵 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
October 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I just posted the current version of my most recent Article, "Conceptual Gerrymandering and the Weaponization of SFFA" to @ssrn.bsky.social. Abstract and TOC are attached below. Comments and (good faith) critiques very much welcome and appreciated. 🧵 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Here’s my new @LPEBlog.bsky.social post about Friday’s FTC decision to stop defending its rule banning non-competes. I also highlight how red & blue states are stepping in to defend worker mobility with new legislation & existing consumer & antitrust laws: lpeproject.org/blog/after-t...
After the FTC’s Retreat: How States are Rewriting the Rules on Worker Mobility
In a stunning betrayal of 30 million workers, the Federal Trade Commission has abandoned its nationwide ban on non-compete agreements. Fortunately, states are filling the void with remarkable…
lpeproject.org
September 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Here’s my new @LPEBlog.bsky.social post about Friday’s FTC decision to stop defending its rule banning non-competes. I also highlight how red & blue states are stepping in to defend worker mobility with new legislation & existing consumer & antitrust laws: lpeproject.org/blog/after-t...
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Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social for recommending my new piece, Coercive Settlements, recently published with the George Washington Law Review! @templelaw.bsky.social
Bachar on Coercive Settlements, buff.ly/XDJ1lDZ - Gilat Juli Bachar (Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law) has posted Coercive Settlements (93 George Washington Law Review 733 (2025)) on SSRN.
Bachar on Coercive Settlements
Gilat Juli Bachar (Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law) has posted Coercive Settlements (93 George Washington Law Review 733 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Can civil…
buff.ly
September 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Thank you @lsolum.bsky.social for recommending my new piece, Coercive Settlements, recently published with the George Washington Law Review! @templelaw.bsky.social
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A lot of people have assumed Harvard would cave after Columbia did, especially after that piece of @nytimes.com stenography for the administration (and ridiculous Larry Summers tweet) but so far the signs point to the opposite. See below, plus the Brown deal being announced.
Hang tough Harvard.
Hang tough Harvard.
This feels like a good sign that Harvard is standing firm, and also good that the fascists are going to have to produce their (nonexistent) evidence if they actually try some kind of litigation. Illegitimi non carborundum.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
HHS Refers Harvard Antisemitism Probe to DOJ, Saying Months of Talks Were ‘Fruitless’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Department of Health and Human Services referred its antisemitism probe into Harvard to the Department of Justice for possible legal action on Wednesday after what it called “fruitless” talks with...
www.thecrimson.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A lot of people have assumed Harvard would cave after Columbia did, especially after that piece of @nytimes.com stenography for the administration (and ridiculous Larry Summers tweet) but so far the signs point to the opposite. See below, plus the Brown deal being announced.
Hang tough Harvard.
Hang tough Harvard.
The chapters the author shared with us at the Civil Procedure Workshop last year were so good! Looking forward to reading this.
July 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The chapters the author shared with us at the Civil Procedure Workshop last year were so good! Looking forward to reading this.
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New paper! This essay takes a step toward developing what I call a "jurisprudence of weaponized interdependence.: Building on @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social's groundbreaking work, I develop an account of the legal processes that facilitate the weaponization of networks. 1/x
July 30, 2025 at 9:11 PM
New paper! This essay takes a step toward developing what I call a "jurisprudence of weaponized interdependence.: Building on @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social's groundbreaking work, I develop an account of the legal processes that facilitate the weaponization of networks. 1/x
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Temple Law is hiring this year. We're looking in torts, tax, constitutional law, civil procedure, race/bias and the law, business law, and legal writing. The full ad and application portal is here. I'm chairing the committee; please reach out! law.temple.edu/engage/prosp...
Temple Law Faculty Application - Temple Law
law.temple.edu
July 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Temple Law is hiring this year. We're looking in torts, tax, constitutional law, civil procedure, race/bias and the law, business law, and legal writing. The full ad and application portal is here. I'm chairing the committee; please reach out! law.temple.edu/engage/prosp...
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Really badass graffiti spotted in town
July 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Really badass graffiti spotted in town
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Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
July 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Ex-farm worker here.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.
Not true AT ALL.
Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.
The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.
At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.
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This is an excellent story, which quotes my @templelaw.bsky.social colleague Laura Bingham. It also provides useful context, showing how the rise of anti-immigrant, technologically powered national security state finds precedents in Obama-era policy. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...
DOJ announces plans to prioritize cases to revoke citizenship
Denaturalization is a tactic heavily used during the McCarthy era and one that was expanded during the Obama administration and grew further during President Trump's first term. It's a tool usually us...
www.npr.org
June 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This is an excellent story, which quotes my @templelaw.bsky.social colleague Laura Bingham. It also provides useful context, showing how the rise of anti-immigrant, technologically powered national security state finds precedents in Obama-era policy. www.npr.org/2025/06/30/n...
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Mask-off racism and fascism from Pinocchiogles — if a New York congressman tried to meddle with local Tennessee politics like this he would lose his hypocritical mind
June 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Mask-off racism and fascism from Pinocchiogles — if a New York congressman tried to meddle with local Tennessee politics like this he would lose his hypocritical mind
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As folks chew on the new @pewresearch.org analysis of non-voters in 2020 and 2024, I'm here to say that the only time in U.S. history voting was made a legal duty, it happened because conservative incumbents felt threatened by a changing electorate and hoped 100% turnout would save them. 🧵
1. Voter turnout, 2020-2024
Overall and across most demographic groups, Trump’s 2020 voters turned out at higher rates in 2024 than Biden’s did, a Pew Research Center analysis shows.
www.pewresearch.org
June 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As folks chew on the new @pewresearch.org analysis of non-voters in 2020 and 2024, I'm here to say that the only time in U.S. history voting was made a legal duty, it happened because conservative incumbents felt threatened by a changing electorate and hoped 100% turnout would save them. 🧵
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So pleased after 3+ years of work to see this in print ... Whether you like originalism or not, I've tried to offer insights on why the Constitution uses terms like treaties & compacts (to say nothing of Benedict Arnold's 'sponsion' or Gen. Washington's 'executive' agreement with Lord Cornwallis)
The Original Meaning of Treaties
For nearly two centuries, all three branches of the federal government have thought that the original meaning of the Constitution’s references to treaties and compacts was lost. This Article aims to r...
scholarship.law.upenn.edu
June 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
So pleased after 3+ years of work to see this in print ... Whether you like originalism or not, I've tried to offer insights on why the Constitution uses terms like treaties & compacts (to say nothing of Benedict Arnold's 'sponsion' or Gen. Washington's 'executive' agreement with Lord Cornwallis)
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#Unsticking Litigation Science
In this symposium paper, the author describes how litigation science and academic science are currently on #divergent paths.
Author: Edith Beerdsen
Read More: http://spkl.io/63325fAMAL
In this symposium paper, the author describes how litigation science and academic science are currently on #divergent paths.
Author: Edith Beerdsen
Read More: http://spkl.io/63325fAMAL
June 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
#Unsticking Litigation Science
In this symposium paper, the author describes how litigation science and academic science are currently on #divergent paths.
Author: Edith Beerdsen
Read More: http://spkl.io/63325fAMAL
In this symposium paper, the author describes how litigation science and academic science are currently on #divergent paths.
Author: Edith Beerdsen
Read More: http://spkl.io/63325fAMAL
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Thrilled to see a news piece by @science.org on my recent paper. By analyzing p-values across >240k papers, the study suggests that the rate of statistically questionable findings in psychology has declined since the replication crisis began
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
‘A big win’: Dubious statistical results are becoming less common in psychology
Fewer papers are reporting findings on the border of statistical significance, a potential marker of dodgy research practices
www.science.org
June 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Thrilled to see a news piece by @science.org on my recent paper. By analyzing p-values across >240k papers, the study suggests that the rate of statistically questionable findings in psychology has declined since the replication crisis began
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Interesting thread on the politics of science vs engineering
I am still begging people to realize that the science vs engineering split is not just a huge longstanding cultural tension within the weird grouping called "STEM," but directly responsible for a ton of politics since the 1940s.
The Silicon Valley fascists genuinely think that technology (i.e., cool robots and spaceships) has nothing to do with science (i.e., girls filling out spreadsheets wokely). I am not being sarcastic. I know that sounds insane. But that's really what they think.
June 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Interesting thread on the politics of science vs engineering
Kind of interesting that (some of) the big-co clients are proving themselves to be more principled than (some of) the law firms.
1. NEW
At least 11 major companies are moving away from doing business with the law firms that caved and signed deals with Trump.
Even though some of these companies are led by executives who support Trump, they do not feel comfortable having a law firm that caved to threats representing them.
At least 11 major companies are moving away from doing business with the law firms that caved and signed deals with Trump.
Even though some of these companies are led by executives who support Trump, they do not feel comfortable having a law firm that caved to threats representing them.
The Law Firms That Appeased Trump—and Angered Their Clients
After firms struck deals to avoid punitive executive orders, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere.
bit.ly
June 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Kind of interesting that (some of) the big-co clients are proving themselves to be more principled than (some of) the law firms.
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1. NEW
At least 11 major companies are moving away from doing business with the law firms that caved and signed deals with Trump.
Even though some of these companies are led by executives who support Trump, they do not feel comfortable having a law firm that caved to threats representing them.
At least 11 major companies are moving away from doing business with the law firms that caved and signed deals with Trump.
Even though some of these companies are led by executives who support Trump, they do not feel comfortable having a law firm that caved to threats representing them.
The Law Firms That Appeased Trump—and Angered Their Clients
After firms struck deals to avoid punitive executive orders, some big clients decided to take their business elsewhere.
bit.ly
June 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
1. NEW
At least 11 major companies are moving away from doing business with the law firms that caved and signed deals with Trump.
Even though some of these companies are led by executives who support Trump, they do not feel comfortable having a law firm that caved to threats representing them.
At least 11 major companies are moving away from doing business with the law firms that caved and signed deals with Trump.
Even though some of these companies are led by executives who support Trump, they do not feel comfortable having a law firm that caved to threats representing them.
. @inquirer.com, could we get some data on how much revenue comes from these international students? It's probably quite significant. These actions don't affect only the directly affected students. www.inquirer.com/education/tr...
As Trump targets international students, here’s who it could affect in the Philly region
More than 41,500 international students study in Pennsylvania. Trump's targeting them could affect University of Pennsylvania, Drexel, Swarthmore, Penn State, Rutgers, Temple and others.
www.inquirer.com
May 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
. @inquirer.com, could we get some data on how much revenue comes from these international students? It's probably quite significant. These actions don't affect only the directly affected students. www.inquirer.com/education/tr...
Hey SSRN, is it normal to schedule a paper for distribution 3.5 YEARS from now? Is this a de facto rejection of this classification? @approvemypaper.bsky.social
(This paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...)
(This paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...)
May 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hey SSRN, is it normal to schedule a paper for distribution 3.5 YEARS from now? Is this a de facto rejection of this classification? @approvemypaper.bsky.social
(This paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...)
(This paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...)
So what is this "replication" or "reproducibility" language that JD Vance is coopting? I have a paper for you! New on SSRN. Discusses reproducibility issues & argues that we lawyers still have a lot of work to do to improve the use of science in a litigation context.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
May 28, 2025 at 3:51 PM
So what is this "replication" or "reproducibility" language that JD Vance is coopting? I have a paper for you! New on SSRN. Discusses reproducibility issues & argues that we lawyers still have a lot of work to do to improve the use of science in a litigation context.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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I forgot about this great story by @cragcrest.bsky.social from 2017. The story, and my comment, are as relevant today as they were then.
May 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I forgot about this great story by @cragcrest.bsky.social from 2017. The story, and my comment, are as relevant today as they were then.