Roberto Tallarita
@rtallarita.bsky.social
Law, corporations, markets, too many books
https://faculty.law.harvard.edu/roberto-tallarita/
https://faculty.law.harvard.edu/roberto-tallarita/
If you're a law professor and you think your student evaluations are unfair, you might want to read this and reconsider your complaints rtall.substack.com/p/being-a-la...
"There was also a fine set for any teacher who tried to avoid a difficult question by postponing its treatment..."
"There was also a fine set for any teacher who tried to avoid a difficult question by postponing its treatment..."
Being a Law Professor in Bologna, Italy, in 1300 AD
If you think your student evaluations are unfair, think again
rtall.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If you're a law professor and you think your student evaluations are unfair, you might want to read this and reconsider your complaints rtall.substack.com/p/being-a-la...
"There was also a fine set for any teacher who tried to avoid a difficult question by postponing its treatment..."
"There was also a fine set for any teacher who tried to avoid a difficult question by postponing its treatment..."
AI optimists like to mention the “Jevons paradox.” But the Jevons paradox doesn’t tell us who will make money and who will get squeezed in the age of AI.
Some thoughts on AI, lawyers, and the Jevons paradox substack.com/@rtallarita/...
Some thoughts on AI, lawyers, and the Jevons paradox substack.com/@rtallarita/...
Roberto Tallarita (@rtallarita)
AI optimists like to mention the “Jevons paradox.” But the Jevons paradox doesn’t tell us who will make money and who will get squeezed in the age of AI
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November 17, 2025 at 12:35 AM
AI optimists like to mention the “Jevons paradox.” But the Jevons paradox doesn’t tell us who will make money and who will get squeezed in the age of AI.
Some thoughts on AI, lawyers, and the Jevons paradox substack.com/@rtallarita/...
Some thoughts on AI, lawyers, and the Jevons paradox substack.com/@rtallarita/...
Yesterday, I had the pleasure to speak with David Wakeling, Global Head of the AI Group at A&O Shearman, in front of an audience of HLS faculty and students.
We talked about how associates use AI, the future of Big Law and law schools...
We talked about how associates use AI, the future of Big Law and law schools...
November 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Yesterday, I had the pleasure to speak with David Wakeling, Global Head of the AI Group at A&O Shearman, in front of an audience of HLS faculty and students.
We talked about how associates use AI, the future of Big Law and law schools...
We talked about how associates use AI, the future of Big Law and law schools...
From my conversations with ChatGPT 5: Is it try to placate me? Should I be more or less worried after this? www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
From my daily conversations with ChatGPT 5.
This morning, ChatGPT gave me the solution for a formatting problem in Word, which has bothered me for YEARS. It was a genuine epiphany. I'm very… | Ro...
From my daily conversations with ChatGPT 5.
This morning, ChatGPT gave me the solution for a formatting problem in Word, which has bothered me for YEARS. It was a genuine epiphany. I'm very grateful....
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October 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
From my conversations with ChatGPT 5: Is it try to placate me? Should I be more or less worried after this? www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
On the lax standards at Harvard, 1866:
"Harvard Law School at the time had ... no examinations: its only requirement... was periodic attendance at lectures... [Oliver Wendell] Holmes stopped doing even that... Harvard still awarded him a degree" [G. Eward White 2009]
"Harvard Law School at the time had ... no examinations: its only requirement... was periodic attendance at lectures... [Oliver Wendell] Holmes stopped doing even that... Harvard still awarded him a degree" [G. Eward White 2009]
October 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
On the lax standards at Harvard, 1866:
"Harvard Law School at the time had ... no examinations: its only requirement... was periodic attendance at lectures... [Oliver Wendell] Holmes stopped doing even that... Harvard still awarded him a degree" [G. Eward White 2009]
"Harvard Law School at the time had ... no examinations: its only requirement... was periodic attendance at lectures... [Oliver Wendell] Holmes stopped doing even that... Harvard still awarded him a degree" [G. Eward White 2009]
"Very interesting and recommended" Not bad for a "law & baseball" paper! Thanks @lsolum.bsky.social!
Tallarita on Roberts, Balls, and Strikes
Roberto Tallarita (Harvard Law School) has posted Calling Balls and Strikes on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Chief Justice Roberts’s metaphor of judges as umpires has been often criticized for being a bad theory of legal adjudication. Unlike umpires,…
Roberto Tallarita (Harvard Law School) has posted Calling Balls and Strikes on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Chief Justice Roberts’s metaphor of judges as umpires has been often criticized for being a bad theory of legal adjudication. Unlike umpires,…
Tallarita on Roberts, Balls, and Strikes
Roberto Tallarita (Harvard Law School) has posted Calling Balls and Strikes on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Chief Justice Roberts’s metaphor of judges as umpires has been often criticized for being a bad theory of legal adjudication. Unlike umpires, Roberts’s critics argue, judges are not mechanical reporters of pre-existing normative truths. In this Essay, I argue that Roberts’s metaphor is a bad theory of baseball.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"Very interesting and recommended" Not bad for a "law & baseball" paper! Thanks @lsolum.bsky.social!
Over at @HarvardCorpGov there's a short summary of my new paper with Kenneth Khoo on the stock market response to SB 21 |The Price of Delaware Corporate Law Reform corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/08/04/t...
The Price of Delaware Corporate Law Reform
Early this year, within a matter of weeks, Delaware legislators proposed and enacted Senate Bill 21 (SB 21), a significant overhaul of the state’s ...
corpgov.law.harvard.edu
August 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Over at @HarvardCorpGov there's a short summary of my new paper with Kenneth Khoo on the stock market response to SB 21 |The Price of Delaware Corporate Law Reform corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025/08/04/t...
Tonight we’ll learn the fundamentals of scorekeeping
July 22, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Tonight we’ll learn the fundamentals of scorekeeping
New working paper (with Kenneth Khoo) on the controversial Delaware corporate law reform (SB 21). We examine the market reaction to SB 21 through a series of event studies and we find that the market thinks the new rules are bad for investors.
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Comments welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Comments welcome!
June 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New working paper (with Kenneth Khoo) on the controversial Delaware corporate law reform (SB 21). We examine the market reaction to SB 21 through a series of event studies and we find that the market thinks the new rules are bad for investors.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Comments welcome!
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Comments welcome!
I haven’t visited Henry in a while—five or six months. Sorry, Henry. But he’s doing well—just a bit grumpy these days. “Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice?”
April 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I haven’t visited Henry in a while—five or six months. Sorry, Henry. But he’s doing well—just a bit grumpy these days. “Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice?”
Im here to tell you that a harpsichord solo can be exhilarating if Ian Watson is playing Brandenburg no. 5
February 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Im here to tell you that a harpsichord solo can be exhilarating if Ian Watson is playing Brandenburg no. 5
The new Delaware bill on controlling shareholders is the end of an era. www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
Roberto Tallarita on LinkedIn: Regardless of its merits, the new Delaware bill (https://lnkd.in/ePt4FsaV)…
Regardless of its merits, the new Delaware bill (https://lnkd.in/ePt4FsaV) is a radical repudiation of a method and an ethos. For better or worse, Delaware…
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February 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The new Delaware bill on controlling shareholders is the end of an era. www.linkedin.com/posts/robert...
When I make "Tallarita's Corporations Illustrated" publicly available, I'm sure this will be one of the most beloved illustrations
February 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
When I make "Tallarita's Corporations Illustrated" publicly available, I'm sure this will be one of the most beloved illustrations
In one of my previous lives I was in love with cinema. I went to festivals and wrote reviews and critical essays for independent webzines. And it was mostly David Lynch's fault.
January 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In one of my previous lives I was in love with cinema. I went to festivals and wrote reviews and critical essays for independent webzines. And it was mostly David Lynch's fault.
I like the debate on whether today's economists should read old economists, but a more interesting one is whether generals should travel to the battlefield with a small library of classics
January 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I like the debate on whether today's economists should read old economists, but a more interesting one is whether generals should travel to the battlefield with a small library of classics
If I had to found a new religion, it would be entirely based on Moby Dick. Its scripture would be the novel itself and its theologians would write endless commentaries on the moral, spiritual, and existential implications of random quotes of the Moby Dick bot
January 9, 2025 at 6:27 PM
If I had to found a new religion, it would be entirely based on Moby Dick. Its scripture would be the novel itself and its theologians would write endless commentaries on the moral, spiritual, and existential implications of random quotes of the Moby Dick bot
Many people don’t like the idea of a literary canon. I do like it, but if the editor of the NYT Book Review doesn’t read the canon, (sadly) there is no canon.
January 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Many people don’t like the idea of a literary canon. I do like it, but if the editor of the NYT Book Review doesn’t read the canon, (sadly) there is no canon.
Note to self: Four things to keep in mind when revising the introduction of a paper, from Cicero, On Invention, Book I:
January 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Note to self: Four things to keep in mind when revising the introduction of a paper, from Cicero, On Invention, Book I:
Wagner gives you the necessary zest for cooking a 3-starters, 1-entree dinner open.spotify.com/track/3lwp8a...
Rienzi: Overture
Richard Wagner, Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti · Wagner: Orchestral Favourites · Song · 1994
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December 28, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Wagner gives you the necessary zest for cooking a 3-starters, 1-entree dinner open.spotify.com/track/3lwp8a...
This is also my Saturday recommendation. Bach is the GOAT
Any recording of Bach's Violin Concerto in A Minor that is less than 13 minutes is illegally fast. This is my favorite: open.spotify.com/track/3gBp7z...
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041: II. Andante
Johann Sebastian Bach, Hilary Hahn, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane · J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos · Song · 2003
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December 28, 2024 at 2:56 PM
This is also my Saturday recommendation. Bach is the GOAT
Any recording of Bach's Violin Concerto in A Minor that is less than 13 minutes is illegally fast. This is my favorite: open.spotify.com/track/3gBp7z...
Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041: II. Andante
Johann Sebastian Bach, Hilary Hahn, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane · J.S. Bach: Violin Concertos · Song · 2003
open.spotify.com
December 27, 2024 at 10:10 PM
Any recording of Bach's Violin Concerto in A Minor that is less than 13 minutes is illegally fast. This is my favorite: open.spotify.com/track/3gBp7z...
Saturday recommendation: Telemann’s Concerto polonois in G major for strings and basso continuo—the second movement is perfect for marking the end of the grading for the day
open.spotify.com/track/7y8Q1y...
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Concerto polonois in G Major for Strings and Basso continuo, TWV 43:G7: II. Allegro
Georg Philipp Telemann, Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel · Telemann: String Concertos · Song · 2000
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December 22, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Saturday recommendation: Telemann’s Concerto polonois in G major for strings and basso continuo—the second movement is perfect for marking the end of the grading for the day
open.spotify.com/track/7y8Q1y...
open.spotify.com/track/7y8Q1y...
I can’t use this verb anymore because those like me would think ChatGPT wrote it
December 19, 2024 at 1:55 AM
I can’t use this verb anymore because those like me would think ChatGPT wrote it
When your Corporations students learn the truly important things you teach them
December 17, 2024 at 9:44 PM
When your Corporations students learn the truly important things you teach them