Happening today!

juris.jotwell.com/what-is-real-law/ Check out my review of the awesome paper by @lawstuff.bsky.social & @almeida2808.bsky.social, “Lawful, But Not Really: The Dual Character of the Concept of Law”.
I am honored to be a contributing editor of JOTWELL, edited by profs. B Bix, K Himma and M Froomkin!

🧠🎭 Deepfakes won’t automatically trigger an “infocalypse”. In Tages-Anzeiger, Markus Christen argues society can adapt to a world of cheap, realistic fakes, with stronger verification and trusted institutions. More on our website: talkingtobots.net?page_id=57

🚨Fresh NIHAI publication: “The Sorrows of Young Chatbot Users” (Topoi, 2026) by Voinea, Register, Porsdam Mann, Savulescu & Earp, digs into chatbot harms and the big question: who’s morally responsible? Follow our research: talkingtobots.net?page_id=34

Perjury is often explained (including to juries) as the legal name for the folk concept of lying, but it is narrower.

Lying has a dual character, research by @izaskoczen.bsky.social suggests, and perjury corresponds only with the concrete aspect:

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HT @xphilosopher.bsky.social

Skoczeń on Lying and Perjury Izabela Skoczeń (Jagiellonian University in Krakow - Faculty of Law and Administration) has posted Are Lying and Perjury Dual Character Concepts? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: To commit perjury, you have to say something you believe to be false, not merely suggest it. The paper presents a novel explanation for the divergence between the folk and the legal concept of lying.

Skoczeń on Lying and Perjury

Izabela Skoczeń (Jagiellonian University in Krakow - Faculty of Law and Administration) has posted Are Lying and Perjury Dual Character Concepts? on SSRN. Here is the abstract: To commit perjury, you have to say something you believe to be false, not merely suggest it.…

I also design comparative jury instructions intended to ensure that juries apply the narrow, legal-technical concept of lying in the courtroom, thereby avoiding the overcriminalisation of legally permissible deception (perjury). 6/6

The legal concept of lying corresponds to the technical dimension of the folk concept of a lie, and it does so for good reasons. Thus, this is not a new concept that lawyers need to learn in law school. 5/6

I conduct 2 experiments, total N = 1030, participants agree that: There’s a sense in which what Bronston said is technically not a lie, but ultimately, if you think about what it really means to lie, you'd have to say that there is a sense in which this was a lie after all. 4/6

I argue that there is a technical sense in which he did not lie, since he said something literally true. However, there is also a deeper sense in which he did lie, because he intended to mislead and to extract an unfair advantage and so lying is a dual-character concept. 3/6

When asked in court whether he had offshore bank accounts, Samuel Bronston replied that his company had such accounts, which was true, but in doing so suggested the false claim that he himself did not have a personal offshore account. Did Bronston lie? 2/6

New paper in Law and Philosophy, open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1... special thank you to @xphilosopher.bsky.social for super helpful comments on drafts! A 🧵 1/6

New experimental jurisprudence paper from Iza Skoczen on the legal concept PERJURY vs. the ordinary concept LYING

This paper introduces a surprising new view about the relationship between legal concepts and ordinary concepts

@izaskoczen.bsky.social

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Great experience at the Knowledge Exchange for Slow Hope conference in Nottingham with the HERA/CHANSE Crisis teams.
A powerful reminder of NIHAI’s wider mission—and an inspiring city to explore. 🌿✨

#NIHAI #CHANSE #HERA #SlowHope #ResearchCommunity #Nottingham

🌿We also find that explicitly referencing harm to future generations in the definition can mitigate anthropocentrism.
🌳Finally, we argue that incorporating an impact-assessment tool free from business-oriented values is preferable to relying on a cost–benefit analysis. 🌍 4/4

🍀This may be a manifestation of anthropocentric and short-termist bias. Our results also indicate that grounding the definition in the mental state of negligence would be the most effective way to avoid this bias. 3/4

🌱We argue, based on experiments, that the current formulation of the draft definition of ecocide may encourage those assessing responsibility to prioritize immediate financial gains at the cost of long-term environmental harm, thereby disadvantaging future generations. 2/4

Our paper with Pirker Benedikt on ecocide has been published! We argue that ecocide regulations may prioritize immediate financial gains at the cost of long-term environmental harm, thereby disadvantaging future generations a 🧵. 1/4 authors.elsevier.com/a/1m8wZzzKDP...

Thank you! :)

The fabulous @jrabanos.bsky.social and @BojanSpaic discussed experimental jurisprudence with me in their awesome podcast! If you want to know why experimental jurisprudence is not like theoretical physics, or what does lying and reasonableness have in common, check it out!

We had a great time at the AI Assertion conference at IDea_Lab Graz!

Keynotes by Saskia Nagel, Jean-François Bonnefon, Bertram Malle, Mark Alfano & Edouard Machery on AI, responsibility & social cognition.

Thanks to all who joined!
🔗 talkingtobots.net

Conference on AI Assertion. Program here: talkingtobots.net?page_id=15

Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Experimental jurisprudence (or “X-Jur”) addresses questions of jurisprudence or legal philosophy by complementing traditional philosophical analysis with empirical methods. Often those methods…

Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) plato.stanford.edu/entries/expe...

Join us at the AI Assertion Conference (June 22–23, Graz) exploring AI “testimony” through philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics & HCI.

Submit a 500-word anonymized abstract (PDF) by May 18 to ai.assertion.graz@gmail.com. Decisions by May 21.
#AI #CFP #HCI #CognitiveScience #Philosophy

Details: pjf.uj.edu.pl/start/-/jour...

Looking forward to this amazing event!