This. And also, if I had never worked with "AI", I wouldn't be too quick to assume that it can do whatever I find unappealing to do myself.

Sir, this is not a Wendy's.

Thinking today of Dolores Huerta and of all the women who have been forced to choose between suffering in silence and risking the success of the broader missions they have worked to support. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

"There is an in-group whom the law protects but does not bind and an out-group whom the law binds but does not protect" ist keine Basis für eine Friedensordnung. Das Gewaltverbot gilt für alle.

Der genannte Brief ist auf dem @voelkerrechtsblog.org zu finden: verfassungsblog.de/stellungnahm...

Was sind das für Soziopathen, die E-Scooter quer am Trottoir abstellen, so dass kein Rollstuhl oder Kinderwagen vorbeikommt.

MAGA Republicans are joining forces with Democrats to oppose litigation finance regulation.

Lawyer pal calls attn. to opening cite:

Yeah, one of the best things we could do for undergraduate environmental education (especially in non-major courses) is to teach people that the guy who invented the "Tragedy of the Commons" follows it a couple pages later with the absolute zinger "Freedom To Breed Is Intolerable"

Gut, dass die "Doku" über das Verbrechensopfer nicht ausgestrahlt wird. Die Persönlichkeitsrechte werden aber m.E. auch von denen verletzt, die darüber mit Nennung des vollen Namens und unter Weiterverbreitung der persönlichkeitsverletzenden Medienberichte öffentlich diskutieren.

liberal democracy rests on a foundation of pluralism. We all may be from different groups and have different interests, but we are common in that we have equal protection and rights under the law. The more people refuse to accept the foundational liberal precepts, the bigger the trouble we’re in.

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

The thing is, these guys are actively trying to make a biblical disaster happen, which is why we are in this mess.

EuGH stabil.

Weichen das gelebte Geschlecht und das im Ausweis angegebene Geschlecht voneinander ab, kann es zu Problemen bei Ausweiskontrollen kommen – und damit bei der Freizügigkeit. EU-Länder müssen die Ausweise von trans Personen daher anpassen, so der EuGH: www.lto.de/recht/nachri...

"Die Vollstreckungsorgane sind auch berechtigt, bargeldlose Zahlungen entgegenzunehmen. Die Kosten für die Nutzung der den Vollstreckungsorganen zu diesem Zweck zur Verfügung gestellten technischen Geräten trägt der Bund" (§ 25a Abs. 3 EO) ooe.orf.at/stories/3345...

If US and Israel launched war in hopes of Iran producing a Delcy Rodriguez, they re getting instead a Hugo Chavez: more militant, more radical considering it’s Iran. Buckle up

Rob Mullins: “Biological Sex”, Social Segregation, and the Freedom to Reassign Sex ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/09/r...

Hervorragende Analyse des US-Angriffs auf den Iran aus völkerrechtlicher und (US-)verfassungsrechtlicher Perspektive. Auf dem Kanal der Neocons von The Bulwark, die mehr Klartext reden als europäische Regierungen. Die Interviewte war Teil der Obama-Administration. youtu.be/M8SzAcqvl5s?...

Part of the reason "Breaking Bad" is one of the greatest TV shows of all time is that its central thesis, which feels true, is that there is a monster inside all human beings, and given the chance to come out, it will, indeed, come out. Anyway, here's an article about a Let the Monster Out Factory.

These kinds of dilemmas are popping up everywhere now.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

The US–Israeli war against Iran is “clearly and unequivocally unlawful.” We spoke with OONA A. HATHAWAY (@oonahathaway.bsky.social), Professor at Yale Law School, about the international legal order and Europe’s reluctance to call the attack on Iran illegal. verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin...

Es ist echt bitter: Das Völkerrecht ist das, was der "Gutmensch" mal war, ein Objekt der Häme, fast ein Schimpfwort. Nur dass dies mittlerweile oft aus der Mitte heraus kommt. Wer Völkerrechtsargumente als "naiv" rahmt, macht das Recht des Stärkeren zum Maßstab. Bis er selbst der Schwächere ist.

The use of AI to identify targets (without subsequent specific human confirmation) should be considered a war crime. And by that I don't mean "we should make a rule" I mean that straightforward application of the existing rules would tell you that it is a war crime.

When I write a report for a court, 90% of my work is compiling, filing, ordering, correctly citing source material. It’s tedious but I do all my thinking while doing so. The remaining 10% is the actual writing which I, without the preparation, I could never achieve. There’s no way to outsource this.

That our leaders are not pushing back against flagrant and clear violations of the most basic norms of international law will come back to bite them - and us.

An important article - in an era of asymmetric warfare and dramatic power imbalances on the world stage, Western democratic leaders, so often in public, will likely come to regret the degradation of the norm against Head of State/Govt assassination by other states much more than autocrats will...

“Ein Völkerrecht, das das Mullah-Regime schützt, gehört in die Tonne.” Solche Sätze sind derzeit zu lesen. Doch das Völkerrecht verbietet gewaltsame Interventionen nicht ohne Grund. Eine Einordnung. #Iran

@sophieduroy.bsky.social and I have a new piece out in @verfassungsblog.de reflecting on the moribund state of the international norm against assassination. Decades of routisination and legitimation have made assassination an available tool of foreign policy, even against heads of state.

Eine Bundes-Krise kann jedenfalls erst beginnen, nachdem die Landeshauptleute informiert wurden (§ 3 Abs. 1 B-KSG), sonst wäre es ja keine österreichische Bundes-Krise!

Understandable. Berries are delicious.

"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."

Beim Abgesang auf die regelbasierte Weltordnung mitzuschmettern wird nicht zum Besten Europas und der Europäer sein.

To throw trans people or any other vulnerable minority under the bus "for the greater good" is to sacrifice the greater good itself.

🚨 Automatisierte Gesichtserkennung: Der Kanton Zürich ist auf dem falschen Weg. Wir brauchen rote Linien für Technologien, die mit unserer demokratischen Gesellschaft nicht vereinbar sind. In einem Brief fordern Professor*innen und Expert*innen den Kantonsrat nun auf, den Kurs zu korrigieren.

So-called 'nudify' apps. Smart glasses that secretly record video. An explosion in sexualised deepfakes. Tech has turned against women, and it's time to regulate it properly, says author and gender equality campaigner Laura Bates. Read more: ft.trib.al/Z3gd5bP

The president complained to the men's Hockey team that he would also have to invite the women’s team to White House

NEW: The Supreme Court will hear a case over whether federal law precludes state-law claims over greenhouse-gas injuries — and adds a question over whether SCOTUS has jurisdiction to hear the case. This is the only new grant in this morning’s orders: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

[standing around the ruins of my faberge egg collection with a hammer] someone could probably replace these as fast as i broke them

the contrast with figure skating, where everyone was delighted and Kaori even helped Alysa secure her stuffie with the medal, is especially funny

Can confirm that everything folks have praised about my work has come from having the protections of tenure.

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

Translation: Gordon Brown is apocalyptically furious that as he was trying to do a good job, which he was clearly far better able to do than his opponents, Mandelson & Andrew were both actively trying to screw him over for the benefit of their rich pedo pal, & yes he will happily see them both burn

Die perverse Menschenfeindlichkeit dieses "Arguments", das man auch in "wissenschaftlichen" Beiträgen in vermeintlich seriösen Zeitschriften findet, ist unerträglich. Wer es in den Mund nimmt, ist nicht gesellschaftsfähig.

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

It's amazing how many people don't know what *else* the biologist who wrote _The Tragedy of the Commons_ did and said: www.splcenter.org/resources/ex...

There's some material on this at pp.56-57 of the PDF, but for every reference to consumer protection there are three references to business needs: assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

2026 basically