Google marks all Gemini-created text with its SynthID text watermarking system. They have released public detectors for media. They have not for text, and they have not publicly said why they haven't. Regulators and legislators should ask them.
La Hongrie viole le droit européen avec sa loi stigmatisant et marginalisant les personnes LGBTQIA +, selon la Cour de justice de l’UE
Thinking about creativity in (often boring) legal academia, Peter Gabriel gives an injection of inspiration with this new song:
"The less you have, the more you can make of it!" 🔥
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmXX...
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
screenshot of Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) page https://www.ippr.org/media-office/government-risks-techlash-unless-it-shows-who-benefits-from-ai-ippr-warns Text reads: "Government risks ‘techlash’ unless it shows who benefits from AI, IPPR warns AI could deepen inequality, concentrate power and disrupt jobs without intervention Ministers urgently need to spread the benefits as industry grows Think tank calls for sovereign AI fund to share economic gains with the public The UK government risks being boxed in by AI backlash if they don’t share the benefits of the technology with the public, according to a new report from IPPR."
IPPR recommends: "Deploying AI engineers to schools, hospitals ... to experiment with where AI can improve outcomes"
- why not ask people already working there about outcomes? I'm betting 'fix the leaking roof' and 'stop making cuts' would come out ahead of 'more AI please')
An unsustainable system (see also, student loans) caused by politicians who wanted to have universities without paying for them, rapacious adminstrators who only care about money and academics who have looked the other way because scared of the impending collapse for them and their families.
This is Meloni’s first political defeat since becoming Prime Minister in 2022.
In the referendum on constitutional reform of the judiciary, Italians said “No, grazie.”
BENEDETTA LOBINA explains what this means for Giorgia Meloni’s political power and how the result is ultimately a good sign for constitutional checks and balances.
verfassungsblog.de/no-grazie/
🌱 Tuesday, 17th March: 'Interdisciplinary Research Methods in EU Law' with @gentilegiulia.bsky.social, @universityofessex.bsky.social & @marekdoppelpack.bsky.social, @thecitylawschool.bsky.social 🔗 www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
☕️ Let's talk about the EU #SocialContract and Digitisation.
We are hosting a public debate on how technology is reshaping our rights and obligations in Europe. 🇪🇺
📅 Friday, 13 March
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📍 Online via Zoom
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🔜 Come and join the online EXPRESS2 EU Project Coffee Forum on Digitisation for a discussion on these issues and much more on 13 March 2026, with a stellar line-up of experts.
Details and registration below
www.essex.ac.uk/events/2026/...
How has #digitisation transformed the fundamental #rules, #actors, #governance, #values & #objectives of the #EU? How has the EU responded to the advances of #digitalpower? How should we (re)imagine the future of the EU as an organisation made of States, institutions, and people in the #digitalage?
The EPP has a long tradition of shielding its own against EU scrutiny on the rule of law. It long protected Orbán when Fidesz was still member of the EPP, and now it is blocking rule of law fact finding missions to Meloni‘s Italy, who has become an important EPP ally.
Text of the request, available at the link
CJEU - text of the request for the court to rule on whether the latest attempt at EU accession to the ECHR is compatible with EU law eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...
“The results show that generative AI systems themselves tend toward homogenization when used autonomously and repeatedly. They even suggest that AI systems are currently operating in this way by default”
theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...
📢Publication alert 📢 : "Effective judicial protection in the CFSP after KS and KD", published open access in the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The course is taught by experts in AI and human rights based at the world-leading Essex Human Rights Centre, including Prof Audrey Guinchard, Dr Matthew Gillett, and yours truly. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch.
Are there opportunities for the technology to foster human rights? What are the risks at this juncture that regulators, AI developers and society at large should manage? These are some of the key questions that we will explore in class.
The course offers an in-depth examination of themes at the intersection between #AI and #humanrights, reflecting on the interactions between 'the artificial' and 'the human'.
Following the success of the inaugural edition, the second iteration of the short course 'Human Rights in the Digital Age', which I have the pleasure of leading, is now open for registration. www.essex.ac.uk/short-course...
2/ We covered EU identity and values, how they manifest in digital regulation, the role of geopolitics in this area, the recent Omnibus proposals, and much more.
My thanks to Kai Zenner for a stimulating conversation.
Below is the link to the podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/6mWw...
1/ A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kai Zenner, Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser for MEP Axel Voss in the European Parliament, and discussing the future of EU digital regulation as part of the EXPRESS2 EU Project's podcast 'Rethink the Deal'.
One should always be on the guard against those who insist “human rights have now gone too far”. It is often a cant phrase—like “legitimate concerns”—that masks disingenuous intentions. Those who protest that human rights have gone too far often do not like human rights in the first place. Of course, the founders of the convention were not unaware of mass population shifts and the threat of extreme politics. The mass population movements in Europe during and at the end of the Second World War were profound. And the convention was put together by many countries with actual experience of rule or occupation by fascists and national socialists. Migration and radicalism were very much the experience of those who wrote and ratified the convention.
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The good, the bad and the ugly of ‘rebalancing’ the ECHR
Human rights law should be kept under review, but that does not mean it should be weakened
My latest post for @prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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Good to see @europarl.europa.eu refer to principle of solidarity in its resolution on Hungary calling for triggering of Art. 7(2) TEU. With @dimitrispieker.bsky.social and Ulrich Karpenstein, we argued that new Art. 7 procedure should be initiated against HU based on breaches of solidarity in CFSP
New issue of the Journal of Comparative Law (20:2) contains autobiographical essays of comparatists ("comparative lawyers"), including yours truly. Below you can see my essay's last page with some thoughts on the field and its future.
new paper by Sean Westwood:
With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research
