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We believe that curiosity shouldn’t require a research grant or hours of free time. Forget the stuffy legal journals; the AI Law blog is a sanctuary for those who love to learn on the go. While we have a passion for making sense of peculiar laws and historic cases, we refuse to be confined by them. Our journey might lead us to the heart of a powerful documentary, the quiet world of a short story, or the unexpected brilliance of a new idea. Our promise is to seek out these gems and share them with you, creating moments of insight that fit seamlessly into your day. This is your curated dose of the fascinating, delivered daily.
The Russian
My body had declared its surrender. I could not drag myself one more step through the city. My legs were screaming, my spine felt like a splintered plank, and I was trapped in a state of perpetual, jaw-cracking yawning. The honey-beers, a thoughtful gift from my friends in Chicago, now felt like a cruel joke. Each bottle was a dead kilogram, a leaden weight that transformed the trudge over sloppy roads into some pathetic, miniature ascent of Mount Everest.
Gocha Okreshidze
May 308 min read
Boston Airport
Today was a masterpiece of bureaucratic malice, a perfectly constructed exercise in how many minor humiliations the universe can stack upon one another before a person simply... pops.
Gocha Okreshidze
May 297 min read
She Was Just Seventeen, You Know What I Mean
You have to love how Georgia collects new vocabulary. Every so often, a new English word just seems to drop out of the sky and land right in the middle of our politics, and everyone has to pretend they know what it means. I remember back in 2012, when Georgian Dream took over, the buzzword was “cohabitation.” A fantastic word nobody understood, but which apparently was a polite way of saying, “Let’s try not to immediately imprison the last guys in charge.”
Gocha Okreshidze
May 264 min read
Field Notes on a Sunday
The neighbors in Champaign have deployed their party tent again. It sits on the lawn like a makeshift embassy of good times, broadcasting a generic bassline into the night. I pointed my phone at it twice, hoping Shazam could identify the tribe’s official anthem, but even the algorithm was stumped. The proper diplomatic protocol, I imagine, would be to present my credentials, go inside, and engage in some light-hearted American romance. Instead, I opted to remain an outside ob
Gocha Okreshidze
May 182 min read
Say Hello, My Little Friend
The dead time in law school, between the morning lecture and the afternoon one, is a special kind of purgatory. I was doing my usual aimless wandering through the corridors and found myself in the basement, where the lockers live. Tucked away at the very end of everything, right next to a public computer lab, is the JSD room.
Gocha Okreshidze
May 152 min read
Church Occupied by Devils
ChatGPT has become the very atmosphere we breathe, the guest of honor at every dinner party and the phantom at every terminal. Humanity is wielding its new Promethean fire for everything from legitimate scholarship to settling bets on whether a hotdog is a sandwich and cataloging the sins of their neighbors. The majority of these applications are, naturally, spectacularly misguided, attempts to coax from it things it cannot produce, like a soul or a decent joke.
Gocha Okreshidze
Apr 294 min read
The Kingdom of Fakes
My paper is basically done. I’ve gone down the rabbit hole, and I’ve finally reached the bottom. I’ve seen the “truth” about Coase: the attack on Adam Smith, the “super-firm” government, the redefinition of property to eradicate it.
Gocha Okreshidze
Apr 212 min read
Aesthetics
I’ve been trying to figure out the “undeveloped” part of Coase’s paper. It all goes back to Pigou. Pigou’s concept of “welfare economics” was massive. He said “welfare” was the same as “good,” and “good is good... it cannot be defined”. He knew it was about “states of consciousness,” not just material things. Pigou explicitly split the field in two.
Gocha Okreshidze
Apr 152 min read
Lawless Algorithm
It is a peculiar species of luck, I suppose, to find that after the attrition of nearly 400 litigations, I am still entombed in a classroom trying to understand how to get a lien on a car. I am surrounded by first, second, and third-year law students — fledglings debating the finer points of secured transactions. Academia has always been a cloister, a welcome sanctuary from the coliseum of practice.
Gocha Okreshidze
Apr 142 min read
The Code
I’ve finally cracked the dark heart of Coase’s slanders against Pigou, and it’s unsettling; this isn’t just a simple academic takedown, but a brilliant, self-aware scheme — a calculated blueprint for his own legacy.
Gocha Okreshidze
Apr 102 min read
Appearances
The pandemic and its global contagion forced a seismic shift in our existence. Was it merely a dress rehearsal — an exercise in remote governance from domestic bunkers before the kinetic destruction of worldwide wars? Who can say. Yet, from that chaos, one deity ascended above all others: Zoom.
Gocha Okreshidze
Apr 81 min read
Laissez-faire
Okay, I’m back in the last chapter of The Problem of Social Cost. My mind is still reeling from his “redefinition of property”. That was the third reason he gave for why economic theory has failed.
Gocha Okreshidze
Apr 42 min read
A Change of Approach
I’ve read this paper so many times, but I always focused on the first half. Tonight, I reread the last chapter... and the floor just dropped out.
Gocha Okreshidze
Mar 312 min read
So What?
Okay, let’s just stop and think about the “Coase Theorem” itself. The part from chapters III and IV that everyone, including my JSD seminar, is obsessed with.
Gocha Okreshidze
Mar 292 min read
Sveriges Riksbank
I’m sitting here thinking about that famous Chicago dinner. My professor called them “Nobel prize-winning brains” — Coase, Stigler, Friedman, all of them. It’s a key part of the story, the thing that gives it so much authority.
Gocha Okreshidze
Mar 252 min read
The Green-Eyed Jury
Men have long navigated the world under the serene assumption of their own superiority — the natural heirs to greatness in athletics, public life, and the realm of the intellect. This belief, however, is a hollow monument. As the doors of society creak open, women demonstrate a capacity for excellence that requires no asterisk, revealing that the old order was built not on merit, but on sand.
Gocha Okreshidze
Mar 229 min read
Professor Pigou
I’m back in the 1960 paper, and I’m forced to focus on the guy Coase sets up as his main villain: Arthur C. Pigou. The entire paper is framed as a response to him. Coase opens by saying the “economic analysis of such actions had followed the treatment of Pigou,” which he claims is “not necessarily, or even usually, desirable.”
Gocha Okreshidze
Mar 183 min read
Siuuu
Today was aggressively uneventful. The kind of day that seems determined to be average, as if it’s trying to make a statement about the futility of expecting otherwise. Except there was… a moment. A fracture in the ordinary.
Gocha Okreshidze
Mar 123 min read
Where Do Caves Go?
I’ve been going at this all wrong. I’ve been obsessed with the 1960 Problem of Social Cost paper, but I keep finding clues that the real secret is in his 1959 paper, The Federal Communications Commission.
Gocha Okreshidze
Mar 92 min read
Leo Herzel
We were discussing the history of property and regulation in my “Advanced Theories” seminar, and the Professor mentioned a name I’d never heard before: Leo Herzel.
Gocha Okreshidze
Mar 31 min read
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