What Katy Did

AI, law and learning

Thoughts on a recent case from the UK

Aug 14 • 

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July 2025

Looking under the rock of institutional confidentiality

Sometimes the rock can hide dreadful problems

Jul 31 • 

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Going to America

My recent visit to the United States

Jul 17 • 

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June 2025

Beware of the delicious moral treat of righteous indignation

Thoughts on the limits of peaceful protest

Jun 6 • 

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May 2025

In praise of books

More on how academic incentives have gone awry

May 6 • 

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April 2025

Social proof and getting things wrong

Thoughts on belief and the importance of accepting error

Apr 6 • 

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March 2025

Private law blues

The succession problem (again)

Mar 29 • 

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Bad men do what good men dream

Thoughts on the Gaiman controversy

Mar 19 • 

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February 2025

Vale Professor Harold Luntz AO

25 February 1937 – 29 January 2025

Feb 28 • 

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The Hidden People

Character sketches

Feb 21 • 

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January 2025

[REPOST] On victimhood

Living with the past without being overcome: “That was then, this is now.”

Jan 20 • 

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Honesty and courage in academia

Variations upon the emperor’s new clothes

Jan 4 • 

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