Legal Scholar and Essayist
Works on administrative law and the philosophy of institutions. Essays on attention, evidence, and judgment.
Reading speed has become an unexamined virtue, with apps promising books consumed in fifteen minutes. This essay argues that difficulty in serious writing is not friction to be optimized away but the mechanism by which reading changes the reader, and offers a practical case for restoring slow reading as a deliberate practice.
Ingrid Solberg and Meera Krishnan · Jun 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Government agencies increasingly delegate eligibility, risk scoring, and enforcement triage to statistical models. Administrative law's core guarantees, notice, reasons, and the opportunity to contest, were designed for human decisions and translate poorly to model-mediated ones. This paper maps the doctrinal gaps and proposes a review framework centered on contestability rather than explainability.
Ingrid Solberg · Jun 15, 2026 · 1 min read
Confessions of uncertainty have become a rhetorical fashion, deployed to preempt criticism rather than to change conduct. This essay distinguishes performed humility from operational humility, the kind that alters what you do next, and argues that the second is a learnable practice with concrete components: calibration, reversibility, and the deliberate cultivation of good error.
Ingrid Solberg · Jul 4, 2026 · 2 min read