Editorial #56: About Science (and) Communication
04.11.2026
Alongside timely debates on (international) legal scholarship and the impact of generative AI on it, also hosted on this blog (e.g. here and here), I would like to share my...
Read more
- Symposium
- Open-Ended Symposium on GenAI and the Future of (International Legal) Scholarship
Not a Witch Hunt: Resist AI!
30.10.2026
For months, academics and scientists across disciplines, from mathematics to literature, have been assessing the irruption of AI on their fields. As LLMs have become so ubiquitous, so fast, assessment...
Read more
- Symposium
- Open-Ended Symposium on GenAI and the Future of (International Legal) Scholarship
Of Machines and Masters
30.10.2026
Jan-Henrik Hinselmann
Anna Sophia Tiedeke
Last week, Valentin Jeutner, one of the co-founders of Völkerrechtsblog, reminded us in his inaugural lecture at Lund University that, in June 1958, addressing the University of Cambridge, Dag Hammarskjöld...
Read more
Governing AI Agents
28.10.2026
Advancing cyber capabilities and growing AI autonomy increase the risk of unsanctioned agent behaviour. Despite emerging evidence of these risks, global AI regulation remains difficult. Climate change and nuclear risks...
Read more
Can Nuremberg Survive AI?
22.10.2026
Eighty years after the Nuremberg Judgment, artificial intelligence may challenge an assumption of international criminal law that has rarely needed to be questioned, namely that behind an international crime stands...
Read more
- Symposium
- reflectiÖns on “Digital Empires”
Towards a Fourth Digital Empire?
21.10.2026
On 6 and 7 July 2026, representatives of UN Member States met in Geneva with civil society, academia, business and the technical community for the first United Nations Global Dialogue...
Read more
Should AI Be Organized?
24.07.2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future possibility. It is the present reality reshaping every corner of human society. From automated decision-making in criminal justice to generative models composing legal briefs, AI systems are...
Read more
Digital Fiefdoms and Human Rights
10.07.2026
The unprecedented rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven digital technologies has transformed traditional capitalism (p. 66–67), constructing a structural system of exploitation termed “technofeudalism” (p. 170–175). In this novel architecture,...
Read more
Rationed Intelligence
08.06.2026
Inside every modern computer, smartphone, and data centre sits a component called a semiconductor chip. It is a wafer of silicon, roughly the size of a fingernail, engraved with billions...
Read more
When AI Rules Diverge
23.04.2026
AI regulation is splitting across major jurisdictions. This post examines divergent AI regulations across jurisdictions, particularly in the EU, US, and China, and how such divergence generates compliance costs, liability uncertainty, and...
Read more
Lessons Learned from the Minab School Strike
07.04.2026
“We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI, [...] we will become an ‘AI-first’ warfighting...
Read more
To Regulate or Not to Regulate?
19.01.2026
The Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal and the Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation Proposal, both presented on 19 November by the European Commission, are certain to attract substantial attention from commentators...
Read more
- Symposium
- Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns
AI and Asylum in the EU Legal Framework
10.02.2025
In recent years, the European Union’s asylum system has seen the gradual integration of AI tools aimed at streamlining certain processes optimizing workflows. Since the stakes in asylum cases are...
Read more
