Professor of Law, University of Arkansas. Admiralty and Maritime Law, Corporate, and M&A. Real Christmas tree enthusiast.

Fayetteville, AR
Joined March 2013
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I'm just going to point out that there are two people at the start of this hike.
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NEW - Adolf Hitler's Alpine retreat, the Eagle's Nest, was completely destroyed after a potential arson attack last night in Bavaria's Berchtesgaden, Germany.
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did my interpreting signs in the lecture today
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Public service is hard, but clearly these guys have the chops for it. #DadJokeCategory
The two candidates for Missouri House of Representatives District 158 have something in common. Left: incumbent R - Scott Cupps Right: D - Chris Foster
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Hang it in the Louvre
🇫🇷 Chers visiteurs, en raison d’un mouvement social étudiant, le musée est fermé pour le moment. Nous vous prions de nous excuser de la gêne occasionnée. 🌍Dear visitors, due to student strikes the museum is currently closed. We apologise for the inconvenience.
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Elon Musk
@elonmuskOct 19
Next year, I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.
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“Threads — and Bluesky — have effectively quarantined some of the worst people on the internet.” Very true.
Nikita Bier
@nikitabierOct 17
Last year I thought Threads was an existential risk to X. When Meta puts its full weight behind something -- by injecting the app into Instagram, it’s DEFCON 5: You have to squeeze out every last drop of growth from all available surfaces to save the app. However, I started to realize that the opposite was happening: It was strengthening X. If you look at any announcement by Zuck, you will see the most rude & toxic comments on the internet. But when he makes those same announcements on X, people are thrilled about how he’s pushing humanity forward. X is a place where people are excited about the future, so it’s no surprise he and his top lieutenants are using it more than their own app. Threads — and Bluesky — have effectively quarantined some of the worst people on the internet. And so I had an epiphany: those apps are X’s anti-abuse systems.
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@ProfRobAnderson17 Feb 2024
Why hasn’t anyone used generative AI to make a fake Supreme Court opinion and “leak” it yet? Seems like an obvious thing to do.
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An interesting bit of trivia—the Texas Business Court is actually located on the first floor of the Texas A&M School of Law. We even share a break room. But shockingly, no one yet has reacted to my go-to greeting: “Howey doing?”
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@ProfRobAndersonOct 11
Important new Texas Business Court decision: After reincorporation from Delaware to Texas, the state of incorporation at the time of filing (here Texas) governs derivative standing and demand even when the claims accrued while incorporated in Delaware. 1/ txcourts.gov/media/1463428/2…
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Nikita Bier
@nikitabierOct 10
The only group more insufferable than tech people is anti-tech bluesky users, who have been coming back to X in droves the last few weeks. And they’re just discovering that the entire world got rich over the last two years while they were busy arguing with each other about politics and AI. And they’re very, very angry.
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Last year, we reincorporated to Texas. Last night, the Texas business court dismissed the first shareholder derivative suit brought against us since our reincorporation, just five months after it was first filed. We appreciate the court’s careful consideration and speed. Opinion linked below.
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I did not know Arkansas had it like that
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"This case is about drug trafficking on the high seas," as the Coast Guard caught a go boat 128 miles from Colombia, which tried to...go. in the process dumping bales containing 600+kg of cocaine. Jurisdiction ok, interdiction constitutional. Affirmed, per Judge Marcus
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I grew up in Ohio, just outside of Skibidi, in fact. I've long thought this kind of regime makes sense.
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GOODBYE MISSISSIPPI, HELLO ARKANSAS!!!!
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Update: After scanning almost 23,000 dissertations, I can now say... it's REALLY bad out there. More than 1-in-5 dissertations uses AI nowadays, much of the time to do all of the writing.
I just found something more indicting than this. I'm writing a paper documenting the rise of AI in PhD dissertations. As you might predict, there's been an explosion in the use of AI to complete PhDs. It's embarrassing: PhDs will increasingly not mean 'experts' on anything.
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Talked about exactly this in the @cyberbulls that is airing right now. There is not enough scrutiny on the proxy advisors (ISS, Glass Lewis, ...). And the fact that they oppose TX as a new corporate domicile is just one of the many conflicts they have.
Robert Anderson
@ProfRobAndersonOct 2
The proxy advisors themselves face a conflict of interest in making recommendations on these moves because they are locked in a battle with Texas. There hasn't been enough scrutiny of ISS and Glass Lewis in this context.
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Nice post on the lex Rhodia. The assimilation into Roman law is interesting: the duty to contribute was interpreted by the jurists as an aspect of good faith in the contract of carriage, entered into by merchants with the ship's business manager (magister navis)...
When a ship is at risk, it's sometimes necessary to throw some of its cargo overboard to save it. But who decides whose cargo is thrown? To avoid counterproductive bickering in times of danger, the ancient Greeks widely adopted a law from Rhodes: "Lex Rhodia de iactu," which states that financial losses for thrown cargo are equally shared among all cargo owners on the ship. So ,since losses are shared, the owners of heavy, cheap items didn't fight to stop the crew from dumping their property, because they knew they would be compensated by the owners of lightweight luxury goods. This Rhodian law was later adopted by the Romans and, through transmission, became the basis of modern maritime law regarding jettisoned cargo.
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Le Tribunal organisera une cérémonie commémorative pour marquer le 30e anniversaire de sa création, le 25 septembre 2026 à 16 heures. Suivez la retransmission en direct: itlos.org/fr/main/affaires/r…
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AMERICA Intelligence
SITUATION DETECTED: During his address to the UN, President Trump announced that the United States will officially change the name of AI from Artificial Intelligence to Super Intelligence (SI).
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