Research

Social-change Lawyering
The Animal Lawyer: Movement Lawyering in the Animal Rights Context (with Justin Marceau and Kristen Stilt) (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).
From Fringe to Frontlines: The Evolution of the AI Safety Movement, forthcoming in Contemporary Social Issues and Movements, Doug McAdam, Dana Moss and David Snow, eds. __ (forthcoming)
Existential Advocacy: Lawyering for AI Safety and the Future of Humanity 37.1 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 39 (2024).
A Longitudinal Study of Black Law Students at a Time of Racial Reckoning (longitudinal study in progress since 2021)
The Empirical Study of Social-Change Lawyering: A Comparative Institutional Approach, forthcoming in Law & Social Inquiry special issue relating to Scott L. Cummings, An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles __ (forthcoming).
Beyond Critique: The Pragmatic Turn in the Study of Social-Change Litigation, in Leading Works on the Legal Profession, Daniel Newman ed. 241 (2023).
Rebellious Lawyers for Fair Housing: The Lost Scientific Model of the Early NAACP, Wisc. L. Rev. 1433 (2021).
Becoming Global Lawyers? A Comparative Study of Civic Professionalism, 46(3) Law & Soc. Inquiry 731-54 (2021).
Book Review: Justin Marceau, Beyond Cages: Animal Law and Criminal Punishment. 54.4 Law & Soc. Rev. 903 (2020).
Law & AI
Against Extinction: The Rising Global Movement to Protect Humanity from Advanced AI (forthcoming)
Reimagining Legal Education at the Dawn of Artificial Legal Intelligence, forthcoming in The Research Handbook for Global Legal Education __ (forthcoming)
Teaching Law in the Age of Generative AI, Jurimetrics 111 (2024).
The Epistemics of Legal Futurism: Lawyers at the Horizon of Artificial Legal Intelligence (working draft)
The Fuzzy Evidence of Law’s AI Revolution (with Johanna Schandera), e-SAIL Blog (Nov. 2024)
From Fiction to Fact: Progress on Legal Hallucinations (e-SAIL Blog)
The Ethics of GenAI Lawyering (e-SAIL Blog)
B+ on Autopilot: LLM Achieves New Grade on Unassisted First Drafts (e-SAIL Blog)
Lawyers Replaced in Contract Review? (e-SAIL Blog)
Has AI Passed or Aced Law Exams? (e-SAIL Blog)
Hallucinating About Legal AI Hallucinations (e-SAIL Blog)
Professional Socialization and Public-interest Values
Transitioning into Practice: Lawyer Socialization in the Chinese Corporate Bar, in The Chinese Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization, Sida Liu & David B. Wilkins, eds. Cambridge University Press __ (forthcoming).
Pass for Some, Fail for Others: An Empirical Analysis of Law School Grading Changes in the Early Covid-19 Pandemic (with David Sandomierski and Tayzia Collesso), 56.2 UBC L. Rev. 605 (2023).
Learning Without Grade Anxiety: Findings from the Pass/Fail Experiment in North American Legal Education (with David Sandomierski), Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 555 (2022).
Rationalizing Pro Bono: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Reinvention of Legal Professionalism in Elite American Law Firms (with Steven Boutcher), in Global Pro Bono: Causes, Consequences, and Contestation, Scott Cummings, Fabio de Sa e Silva & Louise Trubek, eds. Cambridge University Press 77 (2022).
The Legal Ethics of Secret Client Recordings,33 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 55 (2020).
From Idealists to Hired Guns? An Empirical Analysis of “Public Interest Drift” in Law School,51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1973 (2018).
Divided Selves: Professional Role Distancing Among Law Students and New Lawyers in a Period of Market Crisis, 42 Law & Soc. Inquiry 855 (2017).
Research Summaries and Reviews
A Conversation with John Bliss on the Benefits and Risks of Generative AI for Lawyers, Insight, Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession (Feb. 2024).
An Interview with John Bliss, The New Legal Realism Podcast (Dec. 2023).
Scott L. Cummings, How Does Law School Matter in the Pursuit of Public Interest Careers?, JOTWELL (December 20, 2019) (reviewing John Bliss, From Idealists to Hired Guns? An Empirical Analysis of “Public Interest Drift” in Law School, 51 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1973 (2018)).
David B. Wilkins, Finding the Lawyer Identity (December 11, 2018) (reviewing John Bliss, Drifting Law Students: Public Interest Caught in the Law Firm Pipeline, The Practice (May 2018)).