Maya Sen

Maya Sen

@mayasen.bsky.social

Professor, Harvard Kennedy School | Speaking in a personal capacity | https://msen.scholars.harvard.edu/

21,470 Followers 426 Following 1,449 Posts Joined Sep 2023
1 week ago

This is very important to consider

I think “human” instruction has much to offer and in the end many students will be willing to pay a premium for non-AI education

Similar to how exclusive and expensive private elementary schools have abolished screens altogether

But who knows?

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2 weeks ago

No. NO. NO NO NO.

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Unlike legislative term limits, justice term limits would likely have healthy downstream effects - specifically limiting the likelihood of the Court becoming ideologically lopsided (as it is now)

We show this in this USC law review paper

chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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This is consistent with what we’ve found in our polling - term limits for Supreme Court justices are extremely popular and enjoy bipartisan popular suppprt

Dare I say it? With the right kind of elite alignment, it could even be “amendment-level” popular support (still unlikely)

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seeing two different academic responses to AI in the classroom: 1) the below (go back to basics) vs. 2) incorporate it radically into a re-imagining of teaching

thoughts about how things will go?

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AI grading will grade AI generated material…

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Can you say more about the annotating? Is that a graded assignment?

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2 weeks ago

Yes

As well, students seem to really appreciate removing AI as a temptation

there’s a feeling it really punishes people trying to do the right thing (ie their own original work)

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The flip side - and there is a flip side! - is that writing longer term papers over a longer time frame really forces students to think more deeply and in a way that writing a short 90 min essay does not

However it is harder to see a path forward with longer-form writing in the age of AI

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That is a challenge!

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mine were in-class essays, so writing/analysis can be done (though you sacrifice some depth). as for readings -- esp books -- that is hard. i teach mostly cases, which resolves that issue.

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I shifted almost everything in my fall course into in-class blue book evaluations, with no internet, and I’m glad I did

The students liked it as well

There is more to be done as AI advances but this is the way

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The thing about the press conference is that Trump didn't say he would ask Congress to override the Court's decision, which is what a strong president whose party controlled both houses of Congress would do.

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what a day to be teaching policy students about the major questions doctrine and why it matters

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3 weeks ago

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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Harvard Donor Leslie Wexner Named Among Epstein Co-Conspirators, DOJ Records Show | News | The Harvard Crimson Leslie H. Wexner, a longtime Harvard megadonor, was labeled a co-conspirator of convicted child sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein in a previously redacted internal FBI document from August 2019.

Same at Harvard

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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3 weeks ago

@daviddarmofal.bsky.social Vandy and WashU are on this list!

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Quite a list of potential targets:

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Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools | CNN Politics Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign again...

www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

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3 weeks ago

This + the moment RBG’s death was announced are two moments I will always remember

The place I was, who I was with, the sense that everything was about to change

Things changed - just not in the way I expected!

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Former U.S. Attorney @preetbharara.bsky.social on what politicization is doing to the Justice Department and why talented lawyers may no longer want to serve.
This is how institutions erode.

🎧 Full episode (audio) live now

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

📺 Full video tomorrow on Youtube

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Scalia Lands at Top of Sarcasm Index of Justices. Shocking. (Published 2015)

Just constantly dripping with disdain and contempt

www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/u...

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The 10 most wild lines from Antonin Scalia’s extreme dissent over gay marriage "Ask the nearest hippie."

www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

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Reading Between the Lines of Antonin Scalia’s Anti-Gay Dissents One of the things that makes legal scholars and legal geeks tick is the challenge of separating out what the law actually allows—or what it...

lots of examples

slate.com/human-intere...

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‘He Was the Antidote’: Samuel Alito Speaks Out on Antonin Scalia and the Drafting of Dobbs In an exclusive interview, the Supreme Court justice remembers a friend and conservative icon’s legacy.

Author of this piece: "Scalia almost certainly wouldn’t have been happy to see how American politics have grown coarser and more polarized than ever before"

...but is there any contemporary justice who wrote more "coarser and more polarized opinions" than Scalia?

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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1 month ago

lol mind you, Pete Hegseth went to Harvard Kennedy School.

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1 month ago

If this was based on anything remotely Epstein related, it would be much more justified

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Pete Hegseth is an HKS graduate

He is welcome to sit in on my law & policy class, in which we discuss opinions by Scalia, Thomas, Rehnquist, and other conservatives, as well as foundational concepts in American democracy (federalism, enumerated powers, sovereign immunity)

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