The Schoendorf Institute
The Schoendorf Institute publishes legal scholarship on business, litigation, employment, artificial intelligence, land use, real estate, and professional responsibility, with a focus on New Jersey and a changing legal system.
Law. Technology. Judgment. The Future We Are Building.
The Schoendorf Institute is a New Jersey-based legal research, publishing, and educational initiative examining business law, litigation, employment, artificial intelligence, land use, real estate, and professional responsibility in a changing legal and economic environment.
Our work begins with a simple premise: information is increasingly abundant, but understanding still requires judgment.
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The Schoendorf Law Journal
Practical Legal Thought for a Changing World
The Schoendorf Law Journal is the flagship publication of The Schoendorf Institute.
The Journal examines legal developments not only for what happened, but for what they reveal about the businesses, institutions, relationships, and professional judgments shaped by the law.
Written for lawyers, business owners, executives, policymakers, researchers, journalists, and others interested in the changing legal landscape, the Journal seeks to offer analysis that is thoughtful, practical, and worth returning to after the immediate issue has passed.
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Volume I: Law in Transition
The inaugural volume of The Schoendorf Law Journal examines law during a period of significant economic and technological change.
Artificial intelligence is changing professional work. Economic uncertainty is testing business structures and commercial relationships. Workplaces continue to evolve. Courts are applying established principles in circumstances that increasingly reflect new technologies, new economic pressures, and changing expectations.
Law in Transition considers what these developments reveal about the legal system we are building next.
Featured Scholarship
The Future of Law: Returning Wisdom to a World Full of Information
Artificial intelligence is making legal information easier to locate, organize, compare, and explain.
But if information itself becomes easier to obtain, what becomes more valuable about lawyers?
The inaugural essay of The Schoendorf Law Journal examines why greater access to information may increase, rather than diminish, the importance of professional judgment.
Areas of Inquiry
Business and Economic Change
How governance, contracts, ownership, financing, and commercial relationships respond when economic conditions change.
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
What disputes reveal about legal obligations, evidence, competing narratives, and the decisions that precede litigation.
Employment and the Changing Workplace
How law responds to evolving relationships among employers, employees, technology, and work.
Artificial Intelligence and Legal Innovation
How emerging technologies affect professional judgment, legal services, institutions, and access to information.
Land Use and Real Estate
How development, property rights, zoning, public decision-making, and economic change intersect.
Professional Responsibility
How the responsibilities of counsel evolve as technology changes the mechanics of legal work.
The Issue Beneath the Issue
Legal developments rarely exist in isolation.
A business dispute may expose a deeper problem involving governance or expectations. A workplace controversy may ultimately depend upon chronology, evidence, and credibility rather than the rule that first drew attention. An emerging technology may raise questions not simply about efficiency, but about responsibility and judgment.
The Schoendorf Institute focuses on those deeper questions.
Our objective is not simply to describe what the law says, but to contribute to a clearer understanding of what legal developments mean, how they operate in practice, and why they matter.
About the Founder
Priscilla Schoendorf, Esq.
Priscilla Schoendorf is the founder and Editor in Chief of The Schoendorf Institute and the founder of Schoendorf Law.
Her work focuses on litigation, business, employment, land use, real estate, artificial intelligence, professional responsibility, and the changing delivery of legal services.
Publication Notice
The Schoendorf Institute is a legal research, publishing, and educational initiative of Schoendorf Law. Institute publications are provided for educational and informational purposes and do not constitute legal advice or create an attorney-client relationship.