Milan Markovic
@profmarkovic.bsky.social
I am a Canadian law professor based in the US. I write about legal ethics, access to justice, and the future of law. My views are not those of my employers.
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Milan Markovic
@profmarkovic.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Equal Justice & Generative AI
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The United States has long suffered from unequal access to justice, with countless low-and middle-income Americans forced to navigate the legal system al
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New paper 📢. I have been pondering AI's effect on legal needs for the last couple of years. While AI has promising uses in law, I argue that, without regulatory intervention, it will worsen the access to justice crisis because of uptake in an unequal and adversarial justice system. Comments welcome!
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November 26, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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See, this is exactly the wrong road for lawyers to go down. I'm prepared to hear arguments in favour of inviting private equity to invest in your law firm, but "I want to be rich" will cut no ice with me.
Private equity can help lawyers grow as rich as their clients on.ft.com/4pw4Wvx | opinion
Private equity can help lawyers grow as rich as their clients
Curbs on outside capital are just another problem to be solved for the smartest legal and financial minds
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November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
See, this is exactly the wrong road for lawyers to go down. I'm prepared to hear arguments in favour of inviting private equity to invest in your law firm, but "I want to be rich" will cut no ice with me.
If Senate Democrats had a leader, he would presumably be leading the charge against this outrageous overreach.
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
If Senate Democrats had a leader, he would presumably be leading the charge against this outrageous overreach.
Prediction: Senate Democrats will keep Schumer around long enough to pass the AI bailout in 2026 or 2027.
Schumer is widely unpopular--even more so after the shutdown. The rest of the caucus's willingness to stick with him raises questions about its judgment and intentions post-Trump.
A group of influential liberal senators is directly challenging Senator Chuck Schumer’s approach to the midterm elections and President Trump, in another sign of growing frustration among Democrats toward the minority leader.
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Prediction: Senate Democrats will keep Schumer around long enough to pass the AI bailout in 2026 or 2027.
New form of prosecutorial misconduct just dropped: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u....
Prosecutor Used Flawed A.I. to Keep a Man in Jail, His Lawyers Say
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New form of prosecutorial misconduct just dropped: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u....
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
Schumer is widely unpopular--even more so after the shutdown. The rest of the caucus's willingness to stick with him raises questions about its judgment and intentions post-Trump.
A group of influential liberal senators is directly challenging Senator Chuck Schumer’s approach to the midterm elections and President Trump, in another sign of growing frustration among Democrats toward the minority leader.
Schumer Faces Pushback From ‘Fight Club’ Group of Senate Democrats
A group of liberal senators is quietly challenging the minority leader over his approach to the midterms and President Trump, in a sign of the party’s deep frustration.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Schumer is widely unpopular--even more so after the shutdown. The rest of the caucus's willingness to stick with him raises questions about its judgment and intentions post-Trump.
We actually raised this possibility in episode 9, @mbkplus.bsky.social!
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We actually raised this possibility in episode 9, @mbkplus.bsky.social!
I thought that Harris should have picked Kelly as her VP--peak consultant brain to rule him out for fear of losing an AZ Senate seat. Of course, it probably would not have mattered with Biden's team running things.
Sen. Mark Kelly has released a statement.
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
"If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won't work. I've given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies..."
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I thought that Harris should have picked Kelly as her VP--peak consultant brain to rule him out for fear of losing an AZ Senate seat. Of course, it probably would not have mattered with Biden's team running things.
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We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
I don’t know what the Supreme Court will do, but I am confident that at the District Court level it is still the case that the Pentagon cannot recall a sitting US Senator to active duty in order to court martial him for something he said. Article 1, Section 6, among other constitutional provisions.
November 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
We really do have two different kinds of law now: District Court law (aka the law), and Supreme Court "law" (aka the U.S. House of Lords upholding Trump's personalist regime)
Is there any precedent for the DoD's disclosure of "allegations?"
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Is there any precedent for the DoD's disclosure of "allegations?"
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
Take a wild guess where a plurality of new law professors went to college, scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1...
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Take a wild guess where a plurality of new law professors went to college, scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1...
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"attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average flagship public college increases students- chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 50%, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and almost triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm"
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*
Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average flagship public college increases students- chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 50%, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and almost triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm"
I am not a fan of Slotkin, but the Biden administration had four years to make the case for its economic record and failed. I can't blame Democrats for running away from him--Harris arguably should have done it in 2024.
Once again, I remind you that this woman cannot be allowed anywhere near the strategy or leadership of the Democratic Party:
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Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
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Also, stop it with this BS. Biden correctly said the economy in 2024 was good, because it was. Yes, no one believed it. That wasn't his fault.
Slotkin: "He's trying to distract us from the big stories of last week, the Epstein files and economy. He's tweeting 'the economy is the best it's ever been' -- amazing considering the public isn't stupid. It reminded me of Joe Biden. Biden tried to tell us for a year that the economy was great."
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I am not a fan of Slotkin, but the Biden administration had four years to make the case for its economic record and failed. I can't blame Democrats for running away from him--Harris arguably should have done it in 2024.
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Yale Law galaxy brain
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Yale Law galaxy brain
Commentators still underestimate the importance of MAHA to the Trump coalition. Cassidy is afraid to cross it.
TAPPER: You were the deciding vote that allowed RFK Jr to ascend to the role of Health Secretary. Did you give him too much credit?
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
CASSIDY: The fact is the scientific community agrees that vaccines are safe. That's all I can say.
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Commentators still underestimate the importance of MAHA to the Trump coalition. Cassidy is afraid to cross it.
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There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
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If the Republican position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" and the Democrat position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" then the result will be that Republicans keep getting away with committing crimes in public office
There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
If the Republican position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" and the Democrat position is "Republicans should get away with committing crimes in public office" then the result will be that Republicans keep getting away with committing crimes in public office
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Thanks, Justice Kavanaugh.*
Rhode Island: “ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply.”
www.wfla.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thanks, Justice Kavanaugh.*
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when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
I’m a law prof & a YLS grad and anyone familiar w elite law schools knows it is beyond laughable to describe these places as radicalism hotbeds. Cruz knows this, as does JD Vance. But they assume that their marks are too unsophisticated to know it too. It’s condescending as hell.
Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
when I was in law school everyone knew that joining the federalist society was like getting tsa precheck for a clerkship
Google is integrating AI into Google Scholar--is there no end to the madness?
November 22, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Google is integrating AI into Google Scholar--is there no end to the madness?
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On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On the patently unlawful boat strikes
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.
WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:
1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
🧵
Just a reminder that @schumer.senate.gov did not endorse Mamdani, proving once again that he has very keen political instincts.
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Just a reminder that @schumer.senate.gov did not endorse Mamdani, proving once again that he has very keen political instincts.
Trump was reportedly very worried that he would have to run against Beto in 2020.
my jaw is on the floor and yet im completely unsurprised. trump’s only political conviction is that he loves a handsome winner
A reporter asks if Mamdani stands by calling Trump a fascist. Mamdani starts to give a delicate answer.
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
Trump (smiles, pats Mamdani's arm): "That's OK, you can just say yes. It's easier. I don't mind."
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Trump was reportedly very worried that he would have to run against Beto in 2020.