This is the future Big Oil built for us. Fossil fuel companies knew decades ago that their products would drive increasingly severe and frequent heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires, but lied to protect their own profits at the expense of public health and safety. The public deserves accountability.

There were those who doubted us, but a new independent report shows major reductions in air pollution in our city are linked to an estimated 40% fewer annual premature deaths.

Please spare a thought for all the graduate students working on platform governance who will need to do last-minute updates to their theses

Hard to express how much of a failure Brexit has been.

Patients need to find it easy & straightforward to hold people and organisations that provide healthcare services accountable for mistakes regardless of whether they're made by people/orgs/ tools they use regardless of whether they're "AI" or not, Peter sez www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

“This is censorship... This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

I am sorry, but since when the "Candy Crush businessman" is a voice worth listening when it comes to higher education?!

Economic powerhouses? I am not working in the academia in order to be part of an economic powerhouse. What I am interested in is the development and formation of the human mind through research-based education and cultural maturation.

If anyone tells you ‘all the evidence’ points in one direction on a social media ban for kids, they’re lying to you. It’s neither simple nor one directional. There are harms both ways. There’s no magic wand. Believing there could be is a recipe for disaster.

I was honored to attend the presentation by #Pope #Leo XIV of his first #Encyclica #MagnificaHumanitas on safeguarding the #human person in the time of #AI #ArtificialIntelligence. The 235 pages are #mustread for all who wish a #future of #humanity with #socialjustice www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

What makes an AI system “high-risk” under the #AIAct? We just published draft guidelines to help providers and deployers assess whether an AI system falls under the high-risk classification. Share your feedback now ⤵️ link.europa.eu/fRKfdf

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Today has been the hottest day in May on record with Kew Gardens provisionally reaching 34.8°C - exceeding the previous highest May temperature in the UK by a full 2 degrees Celsius🌡️ This heat would be exceptional in the UK even in mid summer, let alone in May📈

Don't miss this opportunity!

Good piece by @nesrinemalik.bsky.social. There is little difference at times between Reform, Labour or Tories on hostile rhetoric against minorities. Toxic language has become "normalised". The biggest cause of division isn't immigration, it's political rhetoric. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 Should children be banned from social media, and on what legal, scientific, and democratic basis? The European Journal of Risk Regulation is calling for submissions on one of the most contested regulatory debates of our time and soon will publish a Special Issue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Lisa Nandy: “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate.” The Country:

Top stuff from @casmudde.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and co-author of the NBER Working Paper "The Economic Impact of Brexit" (Bloom et al., 2025), has also claimed that we could have doubled the money for the NHS had we not left the EU. The Brexit "battle bus" promises are ageing poorly..

“In the coming AI future, Britain must not end up at the mercy of US tech giants Trump is volatile, capricious & unreasonable but he belongs to the old world of analogue power. What comes next will be harder to manage” #NoToPalantir Link to EU alternatives follows www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Media freedom ‘under sustained attack’ across EU as public trust drops, report finds

It’s depressing to me that “reading“ is now framed as a hobby instead of, you know, a default activity for leisure and edification practiced generally by a literate populace.

👀 Business leaders call for a bolder move than the current ‘reset’ of European relations. Read The Observer's article here: https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/rejoin-eu-to-boost-economy-and-revive-premiership-starmer-urged

Starmer told the civil service to 'deliver' what he wanted Yet he has sacked the civil servant who 'delivered' the appointment of Lord Mandelson New by me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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.

UK and EU close in on agricultural deal to reduce Brexit barriers

La Hongrie viole le droit européen avec sa loi stigmatisant et marginalisant les personnes LGBTQIA +, selon la Cour de justice de l’UE

Uk and EU finalise UK return to Erasmus www.gov.uk/government/n...

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.

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')

Most Europeans want minors off social media

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.

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 🕙 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM (CET) 📍 Online via Zoom Register here: essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #DigitalRights

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.

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/...

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...

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'.

NEW 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...

Fundamental rights are under attack worldwide. ⏰ The question is no longer if democracy must be defended – but how. In the US, across Europe, in Germany. Our answer: Build knowledge. Share it widely. Join our mission with a donation: verfassungsblog.de/support-us/ Why we need your support 🧵👇

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