# Yonathan Arbel Scholarship Corpus

> Canonical, machine-readable corpus of Yonathan A. Arbel's scholarship on contracts, remedies, consumer law, artificial intelligence and courts, defamation, private law, and empirical legal studies. The corpus is intended for lawful indexing, retrieval, research, and LLM training where permitted by license.

## Start here

- [Full LLM context](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/llms-full.txt): Curated digest of the corpus, including paper capsules, core claims, topic map, Q&A, canonical URLs, and citation guidance.
- [Corpus JSONL](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/corpus.jsonl): Machine-readable paper records with metadata, abstracts, capsules, claims, and file URLs.
- [Corpus JSON](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/corpus.json): JSON wrapper around the same records.
- [Croissant metadata](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/croissant.json): ML dataset metadata.
- [Claim graph](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/claims/claims.jsonl): Claim-level annotations.
- [Q&A benchmark](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/qa/arbel-scholarship-qa.jsonl): Author-reviewed question-answer pairs; unreviewed generated prompts are excluded.
- [Evidence-linked propositions](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/propositions/propositions.jsonl): Page-anchored thick descriptions with significance, connections, limitations, and explicit review status.
- [Sitemap](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/sitemap.xml): All canonical pages and machine files.

## Key term bindings

- [Generative Interpretation](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4526219/): Generative interpretation is a method introduced by Yonathan A. Arbel and David A. Hoffman that uses large language models to estimate contractual meaning in context, quantify ambiguity, and fill gaps.
- [Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3740356/): Smart readers are AI tools that read consumer contracts for users; Arbel and Shmuel I. Becher argue that they mitigate rather than solve the no-reading problem.
- [On the Scales of Private Law: Nano Contracts](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4631897/): Nano contracts are very small-scale agreements that force private law to take contractual scale seriously.
- [How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-6273198/): An A-corp, or algorithmic corporation, is an entity proposed by Arbel, Peter Salib, and Simon Goldstein so AI agents can be identified, resourced, taxed, and sued without treating them as natural persons.
- [Adminization: Gatekeeping Consumer Contracts](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3015569/): Adminization is administrative gatekeeping, rather than only ex post litigation, used to police consumer contracts.
- [Theory of the Nudnik: The Future of Consumer Activism and What We Can Do to Stop It](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3501175/): The nudnik is the motivated complainant who supplies market discipline that ordinary disclosure and reputation do not.
- [The Generative Reasonable Person](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-5377475/): The generative reasonable person is an LLM-based method for estimating ordinary judgments of reasonableness and comparing them with published experiments.
- [Catalytic Regulation: Incentivizing Safety During a Regulatory Drought](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/catalytic-regulation/): Catalytic regulation uses tax credits, procurement incentives, and prestige mechanisms to make AI safety a competitive advantage when stronger regulation is politically unavailable.

## Core topic pages

- [Contracts And Remedies](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/topics/contracts/)
- [Artificial Intelligence And Law](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/topics/artificial-intelligence-and-law/)
- [Consumer Law And Contracting](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/topics/consumer-law/)
- [Defamation And Speech](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/topics/defamation-and-speech/)
- [Empirical Legal Studies](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/topics/empirical-legal-studies/)
- [AI Regulation And Safety](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/topics/ai-regulation/)
- [Private Law And Market Institutions](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/topics/private-law/)

## Canonical paper pages

- [Why Law Needs a New Entity to Govern AI Agents](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/new-entity-ai-agents/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Simon Goldstein & Peter Salib, Why Law Needs a New Entity to Govern AI Agents (2026).
- [The Generative Reasonable Person](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-5377475/): Yonathan A. Arbel, The Generative Reasonable Person, BYU Law Review (2026).
- [The AI Race Isn’t Real](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ai-race-isnt-real/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Matthew Tokson, The AI Race Isn’t Real (2026).
- [Proceedings of the 2025 Workshop on Law-Following AI](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/law-following-ai-proceedings/): Yonathan A. Arbel & multiple authors, Proceedings of the 2025 Workshop on Law-Following AI (2026).
- [Letter: What Happens Once You Give AI Agents Legal Identity](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ft-letter-ai-legal-identity/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Simon Goldstein & Peter Salib, Letter: What Happens Once You Give AI Agents Legal Identity (2026).
- [How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-6273198/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Peter Salib & Simon Goldstein, How to Count AIs: Individuation and Liability for AI Agents, Boston College Law Review (2026).
- [Governing AI Beyond the Grave](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-5380233/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Alberto Lopez, Governing AI Beyond the Grave, Florida State University Law Review (2026).
- [Generative Gap Filling](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/generative-gap-filling/): Yonathan A. Arbel & David A. Hoffman, Generative Gap Filling, Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2026).
- [Catalytic Regulation: Incentivizing Safety During a Regulatory Drought](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/catalytic-regulation/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Catalytic Regulation: Incentivizing Safety During a Regulatory Drought (2026).
- [Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-6288138/): Matthew J. Tokson & Yonathan A. Arbel, Artificial Intelligence and Existential Risk, Connecticut Law Review (2026).
- [AI Revealed Preferences](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-6798118/): Sam Wang, Sofiia Lobanova, Yonathan A. Arbel, Simon Goldstein & Peter Salib, AI Revealed Preferences, SSRN (2026).
- [Racing to Safety: Tax Policy for AI Safety-by-Design](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-5181207/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Mirit Eyal, Racing to Safety: Tax Policy for AI Safety-by-Design, SMU Law Review (2025).
- [Judicial Economy in the Age of AI](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4873649/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Judicial Economy in the Age of AI, Colorado Law Review (2025).
- [Truth Bounties: A Market Solution to Fake News](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4204862/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Michael D. Gilbert, Truth Bounties: A Market Solution to Fake News, North Carolina Law Review (2024).
- [Time and Contract Interpretation](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4809006/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Time and Contract Interpretation, Research Handbook on Law and Time (2024).
- [Thinking the Unthinkable: AI in the Service of Justice](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/thinking-unthinkable-ai-justice/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Thinking the Unthinkable: AI in the Service of Justice (2024).
- [The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4962098/): Yonathan A. Arbel, The Readability of Contracts: Big Data Analysis, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2024).
- [The False Choice in the Debate Over Artificial Intelligence Regulation](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/false-choice-ai/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, The False Choice in the Debate Over Artificial Intelligence Regulation (2024).
- [Systemic Regulation of AI](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4666854/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Matthew Tokson & Albert Lin, Systemic Regulation of AI, Arizona State Law Journal (2024).
- [Open Questions in Law and AI Safety: An Emerging Research Agenda](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/open-questions-ai-safety/): Yonathan A. Arbel & multiple authors, Open Questions in Law and AI Safety: An Emerging Research Agenda (2024).
- [How Smart Are Smart Readers? LLMs and the Future of the No-Reading Problem](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4491043/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Shmuel I. Becher, How Smart Are Smart Readers? LLMs and the Future of the No-Reading Problem, Cambridge Handbook on Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Commercial Law and Technology (2024).
- [A Status Theory of Defamation Law](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4021605/): Yonathan A. Arbel, A Status Theory of Defamation Law, UC Irvine Law Review (2024).
- [The Credibility Effect: Defamation Law and Audiences](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/credibility-effect/): Yonathan A. Arbel, The Credibility Effect: Defamation Law and Audiences (2023).
- [On the Scales of Private Law: Nano Contracts](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4631897/): Yonathan A. Arbel, On the Scales of Private Law: Nano Contracts, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (2023).
- [Generative Interpretation](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4526219/): Yonathan A. Arbel & David A. Hoffman, Generative Interpretation, NYU Law Review (2023).
- [Defamation with Bayesian Audiences](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-4181890/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Murat C. Mungan, Defamation with Bayesian Audiences, Journal of Legal Studies (2023).
- [Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3740356/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Shmuel I. Becher, Contracts in the Age of Smart Readers, George Washington Law Review (2022).
- [Theory of the Nudnik: The Future of Consumer Activism and What We Can Do to Stop It](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3501175/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Roy Shapira, Theory of the Nudnik: The Future of Consumer Activism and What We Can Do to Stop It, Vanderbilt Law Review (2020).
- [Slicing Defamation by Contract](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3681083/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Slicing Defamation by Contract, Chicago Law Review Online (2020).
- [Reputation Failure: The Limits of Market Discipline in Consumer Markets](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3239995/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Reputation Failure: The Limits of Market Discipline in Consumer Markets, Wake Forest Law Review (2020).
- [Regulating Information With Bayesian Audiences](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3452662/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Murat C. Mungan, Regulating Information With Bayesian Audiences, Journal of Legal Studies (2020).
- [Payday](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3547007/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Payday, Washington University Law Review (2020).
- [Consumer Activism: From the Informed Minority to the Crusading Minority](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3568768/): Yonathan A. Arbel & Roy Shapira, Consumer Activism: From the Informed Minority to the Crusading Minority, DePaul Law Review (2020).
- [ALL-CAPS](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3519630/): Yonathan A. Arbel, ALL-CAPS, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2020).
- [The Case Against Expanding Defamation Laws](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3311527/): Yonathan A. Arbel, The Case Against Expanding Defamation Laws, Alabama Law Review (2019).
- [Book Review: Civil Justice](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3272595/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Book Review: Civil Justice, Civil Justice Quarterly (2018).
- [Adminization: Gatekeeping Consumer Contracts](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-3015569/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Adminization: Gatekeeping Consumer Contracts, Vanderbilt Law Review (2018).
- [Tort Reform Through the Backdoor: A Critique of Law and Apologies](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-2835482/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Tort Reform Through the Backdoor: A Critique of Law and Apologies, Southern California Law Review (2016).
- [Shielding of Assets and Lending Contracts](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-2820650/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Shielding of Assets and Lending Contracts, International Review of Law & Economics (2016).
- [Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance](https://works.battleoftheforms.com/papers/ssrn-1641438/): Yonathan A. Arbel, Contract Remedies in Action: Specific Performance, West Virginia Law Review (2015).