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David Lat
Personal blog · davidlat.substack.compoliticswriting
David Lat writes Original Jurisdiction, a personal blog at davidlat.substack.com about politics and writing. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link David Lat's Substack for posts about lawyers' ChatGPT misuse, such as a law firm's fake citations, and about disruptions of invited speakers at Yale and Stanford under the heckler's veto.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
News, views, and colorful commentary about law and the legal profession.
What Hacker News says?
Part of it is selection bias, Claude is much less general-audiences than ChatGPT. But any lawyers using LLMs in 2025 deserve to be disbarred: "A Major Law Firm's ChatGPT Fail" https://davidlat.substack.com/p/morgan-and-morgan-order-to-s... "Lawyer cites six cases made up by ChatGPT" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/lawyer-cited-6-f... "AI 'hallucinations' by ChatGPT end up costing B.C. lawyer" https://www…
Comment linking /p/morgan-and-morgan-order-to-show-cause-for-chatgpt-fail-in-wadsworth-v-walmart
on “The Anthropic Economic Index”Submitted Having a campus that looks like a Benetton ad isn't a compelling state interest as a story · 35 points
HN discussionIf you want a good example of the heckler's veto being used, you can reference recent acts at Yale & Stanford of invited speakers unable to speak because of egregious disruptions https://davidlat.substack.com/p/yale-law-is-no-longer-1for-f... https://davidlat.substack.com/p/is-free-speech-in-american-l...
Comment linking /p/is-free-speech-in-american-law-schools
on “Heckler's Veto”