AI is everywhere – but who’s making sure it’s ethical? Launching Sept '26: The new MSc in AI Ethics and Society. Covers real-world challenges. Interdisciplinary learning. Industry collaboration. Shape the future of AI responsibly. 🔗 bit.ly/4oucNJf #AI #Ethics #PG @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Out in September. Available to pre-order now from all good online bookstores. #HenryMaine #AncientLaw edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-henry-m...

Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to [email protected] by 7 July.

Enjoy land law? Want to hear me wax lyrical about how great Benjamin Cherry was, and how he drafted the LPA 1925 and its sibling statutes? There will be archives, intense political bargaining, and hot takes from Edwardian lawyers. Cambridge 20 May (hybrid) Oxford 27 May (in person)

Happy to share my new piece 'As you know, our (geo)blockade is perfectly legal’ - EU, the Geo-Blocking Regulation and the future of copyright law' for Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice! Bonus: snuck in a Star Wars Easter egg. Link below. @lawatleeds.bsky.social @cblpleeds.bsky.social

Congatulations, Igor! #GeoBlocking #Copyright #CopyrightLaw #Academia #AcademicSky #LawSky @oxfordacademic.bsky.social Read at: academic.oup.com/jiplp/advanc...

Happy to share my new piece 'As you know, our (geo)blockade is perfectly legal’ - EU, the Geo-Blocking Regulation and the future of copyright law' for Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice! Bonus: snuck in a Star Wars Easter egg. Link below. @lawatleeds.bsky.social @cblpleeds.bsky.social

Are you interested in the relations between Indigenous peoples, business and government? Come along to our 2-day conference: 'A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making?' Sign up 👇 www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...? #IPLaw #IntellectualProperty #Indigenous #LawSky #AcademicLaw

Whether this is the ‘death of globalisation’ ultimately depends on how you understand globalisation. 🧵

We have an endowed chair in AI here at St Andrews. Closing date 5 May. Please consider applying. It would be great to have a new colleague interested in ethics or regulation (that said, I am not on the hiring panel). www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

📅 Save the date! 8-9 May 'A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-Making?' will be an unmissable event! Check out the agenda👇 @cblpleeds.bsky.social @lsjleeds.bsky.social @grahamdutfield.bsky.social @subhajitbasu.bsky.social @iszpotakowski.bsky.social #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #Equity

A programme of a two-day international conference on 'A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-Making?' hosted by @lawatleeds.bsky.social @cblpleeds.bsky.social on 8–9 May 2025 is now available online. The conference is part-funded by the Society of Legal Scholars 👇

if this area of law and practice seems like w mess, that’s because it is. @vmantouvalou.bsky.social and I have a forthcoming piece about the practical and legal difficulties accessing user messages/device data on their personal devices using various information rights here… doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Excited to see my paper 'Self-Regulation and Pre-Market Licensing as Methods of Controlling GenAI in the People's Republic of China – Preliminary Observations' finally published in Polish as part of my cooperation with the University of Warsaw! Great to see this in print. @lawatleeds.bsky.social

I've got a pile of books awaiting review for the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, on Equity; private law theory; and public/private law intersection. If you'd be interested, drop me a DM/email whether PhD/ECR, practitioner, or experienced academic. Usually comes with a free hardback copy!

The end of digital property I've been thinking a lot about cyberpunk recently for various reasons. Not only have I been re-reading some old classics such as Neuromancer and Snow Crash, but I am starting to see many worrying trends depicted in dystopian novels in everyday life. But perhaps one of…

Check out this new article about Dr @iszpotakowski.bsky.social's recent research on generative AI models! 👇 tinyurl.com/mvevvu9u @cblpleeds.bsky.social #AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #AIRegulation

Would any legal or political philosopher on here be willing to share a (successful) visiting fellowship application with me? Pint on me first time you are in the North of England!

📣 New book alert!! 'The Future of Geographical Indications: European and Global Perspectives', co-edited by Dr @anzapp.bsky.social, is out now with Edward Elgar Publishing. Read more below! tinyurl.com/mpusvt6n @cblpleeds.bsky.social #HigherEd #AcademicSky #LawSky

At the Institute for Ethics in AI, we’re looking to hire a postdoc fellow in law working on AI ​law/regulation together with the fabulous Oriel College, starting ​this fall (2-3 ys). Oxford will announce the details in the coming weeks but please share with people who might be interested

On Monday 17.02 I had the pleasure of presenting our paper with @lilianedwards.bsky.social & Gabriele Cifrodelli at "AI and Scots Law: Transforming the Future" at Uni of Dundee. Big thanks to dr Lorna Gillies & dr Michiel Poesen for an amazing event with an impressive lineup of Law & Tech experts!

This pretend lawyer is off to Dundee to discuss AI with some real lawyers @lilianedwards.bsky.social @andrewdmurray.bsky.social @burkhardschafer.bsky.social and semi-real lawyer @michae.lv

What a shift this morning! Interesting that the Chinese equivalent of the UK's AISI - 中国人工智能发展与安全研究网络 - could be translated as either 'China AI Development and 'Safety' Research Network' or 'Security' RN. If they ever decide to update their English name too, it wouldn’t be a big change!

You can!! And the team supreme who wrote it will be riffing on it IN PERSON in Dundee on Feb 17th ! ( details shortly)

Just a reminder that in the inaugural issue of #CambridgeForum on AI, you can find our article, "Private Ordering, GenAI, and the ‘Platformisation Paradigm’: What Can We Learn from a Comparative Analysis of Models’ T&C?" 👇 @lilianedwards.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social @cblpleeds.bsky.social

The organisers invite submissions for panel papers addressing the conference theme and key questions. We encourage contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including legal, social, economic, and cultural analyses. Submissions from ECRs and PGRs are particularly welcome.

CALL FOR PAPERS: In May, The School will be hosting a two-day international conference called 'A New Direction in Intellectual Property Treaty-making? Winning Against the Odds for Human Rights, Equity, and Indigenous People.' @cblpleeds.bsky.social

Let’s kick off the new semester with fantastic news! 🎉 The School of Law is ranked 78th in the world, placing in the top 100 for Law in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2025. 🌍 Learn more: lnkd.in/eZha2JFY

Our meeting on family justice due to take place tomorrow is moving online due to the severe weather warning. Sign up here. www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

The School of Law welcomes new staff members! 👋 Meet them below: 👇 essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/news/art... @lsjleeds.bsky.social @iszpotakowski.bsky.social #AcademicSky, #LawSky, #LegalResearch, #LawSchool, #Law

In our latest response piece Konstantinos Stylianou, Magali Eben, and Gabriele Cifrodelli explore the ongoing antitrust case against Google, seeking remedies to address the company’s monopolistic practices and advertising markets 💡

Our new paper on the "Right to Repair Cards: Aligning Law and Design For A More Sustainable Consumer Internet of Things" from NORDICHI, Uppsala last month dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... + a blog post from some of our team about our time there in Sweden ftf.wp.horizon.ac.uk/2024/11/28/f...

Looking to supervise DPhil students on AI regulation or data protection at Oxford - particularly interdisciplinary or comparative law projects. Applications are open until January 29, with details here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/cour.... Please share with students who may be interested!

📢 Call for Papers: ISHTIP 2025 🎉 Join the ISHTIP Annual Workshop on Intellectual Property and Capitalism 🏛️ 📅 25-26 June 2025 📍 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid More info here 👉 www.create.ac.uk/blog/2024/11...

Dr Tanya Krupiy published an article for the Tiempo de Paz magazine 'Can artificial intelligence technology help public authorities and civil society to evaluate the compliance of military operations with international humanitarian law? The case study of Ukraine'. Link below 👇

Join us this Wednesday, May 22nd at 1:00 PM BST in the Conference Room of Newcastle Law School for a #LawAndFutures seminar. Prof. Aisling McMahon will discuss 'Patents & Bioethics within the European Biotech Directive: The Case of Synthetic Human Embryos & IVG'. Don't miss it!

Check out the latest blog post by Dr Tanya Krupiy on the need to update the Equality Act 2010 for Artificial Intelligence. Available now on the Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog! ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/artificial-i...

A new seminar of Law and Futures Research Group of Newcastle Law School will take place this Wednesday at 3 pm!

Happy to announce the next seminar on Law and Futures Research Group, which will take place on Wednesday, February 21st, at 3 pm. Our visiting PhD student, Martina Recena, will present her topic: 'Is AI Creative? A Copyright Approach to Human and Artificial Creativity. Join us!

Happy to share that Prof. Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social, was quoted in a recent article in Nature, about the EU's AI Act! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Attention The next Law & Futures seminar happening this Wednesday at 13:00 (UK Time)! Dr @kamilmamak.bsky.social from University of Helsinki will be presenting his recently published book, ‘Robotics, AI and Criminal Law: Crimes Against Robots'. This presentation will be taking place via Zoom.

This Friday. Online. Sign up. #RomanLaw www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

In a week, this amazing collection edited by Cerian Griffiths and me will be released by Routledge. More than two years of hard work. It was worth to see the results of the work of fifteenth authors from four continents! www.routledge.com/English-Law-...

🇪🇺⚖️ #EU Court suspends Amazon's ad repository mandate under #DSA's Article 39, pending review of its #VLOP status. 🔹 My KCLB’s blog post analyzes the decision's limited impact on DSA enforcement and the use of competition law terms by the Court and Amazon. tinyurl.com/KCL-Blog