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David Stein
@davidbstein.bsky.social
Law & AI @ Vanderbilt

Formerly:
- Law & CS @ Northeastern
- Cybersecurity Lead @ Sidewalk Labs (Alphabet)
- Director of Engineering @ Braze
- Product Engineer @ Foursquare
- Early Eng @ Dropbox
- Robotics Researcher @ MIT
Reposted by David Stein
New from me with Ben Sobel and @davidbstein.bsky.social:

_Generative Interpretation_, forthcoming in the Harvard Journal on Legislation

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We argue against using LLMs as part of the judicial process. They're not ready yet, and it's a long road to get there.

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Generative Misinterpretation
<div> In a series of provocative experiments, a loose group of scholars, lawyers, and judges has endorsed generative interpretation: asking large language mode
papers.ssrn.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Bluebooking's tedious. I'm making IndigoCite—a Zotero for lawyers.

- Automatic parsing of SSRN, Heinonline, WestLaw, Lexis
- Hand-coded Indigobook formatter
- Works with existing Zotero/Juris-M accounts

MacOS test builds come out this June.
Pull requests encouraged.
github.com/indigo-cite/...
May 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM