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hunter

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3. Those yellow paper legal pads and blue exam books make a comeback???

Reply to groundloop (Reply #1)

Tue May 26, 2026, 08:41 PM

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The thought of incompetent law students copying their AI sessions to a legal pad by hand and failing spectacularly on their handwritten blue book exams somehow amuses me.

If hand written papers were good enough for Abraham Lincoln they ought to be good enough for anybody.

https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/projects/catalog/abraham-lincoln

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Berkeley Law's AI crackdown highlights chatbot concerns [View all] highplainsdem Tuesday OP

How can this possibly be enforced? groundloop Tuesday #1

Those yellow paper legal pads and blue exam books make a comeback??? hunter Tuesday #3

I don't know how it could, except when using blue books for exams. highplainsdem Tuesday #4

Outside of proctored exams it likely can't fujiyamasan Yesterday #6

That's wut I'm talkin' 'bout! Back to basic brain development! ancianita Tuesday #2

Which beats hell out of having students learn to cheat with AI. highplainsdem Tuesday #5