Beyond Anthropic’s Red Line: Human-in-the-Loop and the Illusion of Legitimacy in AI Decision-Support Systems [Rosa Villar is a PhD Candidate in International Law at the University of Aberdeen with research focused on AI-enabled targeting systems, international humanitarian law and international criminal l…

Beyond Anthropic’s Red Line: Human-in-the-Loop and the Illusion of Legitimacy in AI Decision-Support Systems
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Not All Aggression is Equal: Why Force for Regime Change is the Graver Breach [Davit Khachatryan is an international law expert and lecturer specializing in public international law, alternative dispute resolution, investment law, international humanitarian law, and security…

Not All Aggression is Equal: Why Force for Regime Change is the Graver Breach
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The missing catalogue – Why finding books in translation is still so hard - LSE Impact Finding a work in translation is harder than you think. Whilst a technical challenge, the benefits of creating a record for works in translation would be worth it.

👀ICYMI | "Le Petit Prince is one of the most translated books ever published. It exists in well over a hundred languages. But if you tried to find all those translations in a single database, you would fail"

@ausiastsel.com #Books #Translation #Bibliodiversity

Is America a Rogue State? YouTube video by Foreign Policy

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Institution as a collection of practices or as an organization?

I’m intrigue how do you use “institutionalization” with “instrumentalization” (perhaps from instrumental action)? My very Parsonian take on this topic makes me wonder how and if is it possible to arrange this two concepts?

On 5 May, Prof Javier Auyero of UT Austin will be in Glasgow to present findings from his latest book, Dark Governance: Illegal Organisations and State Power. Please join us for this joint event of GLARN and IPED.

16:00 - 5 May 2026
Room 916, 42 Bute Gardens
Followed by a drinks reception

The legacy of Habermas - Heine Andersen, 2026 Jürgen Habermas has passed away on 14 March 2026. Habermas was the leading figure in the Frankfurt School's second generation for several decades, leaving ...

JUST PUBLISHED 👀

Heine Andersen on the recent passing of Jürgen Habermas and his legacy in critical theory and sociology more widely:

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“The Obsolescence of Homo Faber”

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1970’s are so back!

A poster advertising the AIM PhD programme, including a QR code to learn more.

One month left for prospective PhD students to apply for the AIM PhD programme.

We provide support for each part of the application process, tailoring it for each person depending on where they need the most help.

Apply by 10 May.

Learn more and apply: www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/aim-phd

De l’esprit du capitalisme et du rôle de la critique shs.cairn.info/le-nouvel-es...

SSRN PAPER: Alessandro VOLPI, "Legal and Political Constitutionalism from Schmitt and Kelsen to Contemporary Debates: Notes on Constitutional Guardianship and Democracy" [OPEN ACCESS] (image: Hanse Kelsen; Source: Wikimedia Commons ) Abstract: This paper situates the Carl Schmitt-Hans Kelsen dispute on constitutional guard...

SSRN PAPER: Alessandro VOLPI, "Legal and Political Constitutionalism from Schmitt and Kelsen to Contemporary Debates: Notes on Constitutional Guardianship and Democracy" [OPEN ACCESS]

@ssrn.bsky.social

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Now you can quote him on the definition of the crimes against humanity…

"But the urgent question for any human translator remains: How, after overcoming the shock of obsolescence, should this future be managed?"

From our new issue, read Lawrence Venuti's "The Human Translator versus the Machine": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

This passage from Gurvitch's Bill of Social Rights captures what I see as his central critique of the institution of law and his proposed alternative: the emergent group property he calls 'social law.'

Five takeaways for US policymakers about China’s new five-year development plan Chinese leaders are much more focused on their nation’s strengths than its weaknesses, and they are feeling bullish about the future.

"The new five-year plan calls for the Chinese government to keep research and development spending growing at least 7 percent per year...That means China’s national labs, universities, and industrial clusters will be flush with cash at a time when the United States is slashing those same budgets."

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."

Microsoft: LOL

Foreign central banks sell US Treasuries in wake of Iran war International official holdings at New York Federal Reserve fall to lowest level since 2012

Foreign central banks sell US Treasuries in wake of Iran war ft.trib.al/00iuYNQ

US bond market shows signs of strain as Iran war sparks Treasury tumult ft.trib.al/z6ugvOG

Rare video shows female sperm whales working together during a birth YouTube video by Associated Press

Life

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Relating to People Living with Dementia as Equals by Matilda Carter.
Drawing on her professional experience, Matilda Carter offers a political analysis of the social position of people living with dementia.
📚 https://cup.org/3NJWFqp

#bioethics #medicallaw

We are very pleased to invite you to the conference Global Health Justice: Principles and Practice, which will take place on 28–29 May 2026 at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt.

We are honored to host keynote lectures by Jonathan Wolff, Kanchana Mahadevan, and Caesar Atuire.

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal Academics raise concerns over ChatGPT owner’s links to US military and claim tools are ‘looking to replace knowledge workers’

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

Weltgeist auf Papier Am 14. März 2026 starb im Alter von 96 Jahren der Sozialphilosoph und »Blätter«-Mitherausgeber Jürgen Habermas. Tief geprägt vom Kriegsende 1945, stand stets eines im Mittelpunkt seines Wirkens: die V...

Weltgeist auf Papier
Zum Tode von Jürgen Habermas
von Hauke Brunkhorst
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Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026). Read his "Work and Weltanschauung: The Heidegger Controversy from a German Perspective" in our 1989 symposium on Heidegger and Nazism.
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Habermas behind a typewriter, surrounded by bookcases

CI remembers Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026). Read his essay "Georg Simmel on Philosophy and Culture: Postscript to a Collection of Essays" (1996).

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60’s photo with a bunch of hippies doing psychedelics