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Fission for Algorithms: The Undermining of Nuclear Regulation in Service of AI - AI Now Institute
A report examining nuclear “fast-tracking” initiatives on their feasibility and their impact on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards.
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AI Safety Index Released
The Future of Life Institute has released its first safety scorecard of leading AI companies, finding many are not addressing safety concerns while some have taken small initial steps in the right direction.
The Balancing Act: Looking Backward, Looking Ahead
JURIX 2024 call for papers - JURIX
JURIX 2024 – The 37th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems December 11-13, 2024, Institute of Law and Technology (Faculty of Law), Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic https://jurix2024.law.muni.cz/ (Long, short, demo) paper submission: September 6, 2024 Abstract submission...
JURIX 2020
The conference will be held online
Conferences - JURIX
Jurix organises yearly conferences on the topic of Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, the first one in 1988. The proceedings of the conferences are published in the Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence and Applications series of IOS Press, the recent ones...
JURIX 2025 call for papers - JURIX
JURIX 2025 – The 38th International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems 9-11th of December 2025, Turin https://jurix2025.di.unito.it/ (Long, short, poster) paper submission: September 4, 2025 Abstract submission (recommended): August 28, 2025 Topics The JURIX conference has provided an...
JURIX 2018
The 31st international conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
Review of Linda Mulcahy and Anna Tsalapatanis, Digital Justice: Engineering Disadvantage?, Palgrave Macmillan Socio-Legal Series, 2025, 95 pp, hb, £34.99
Digital Justice: Engineering Disadvantage? provides a succinct and somewhat whistlestop tour of some of the major projects in the digital reform programme of the past two to three decades in England and Wales.CONTINUE READING FULL ARTICLE
Law in Non-Places: A Comment on Siva Thambisetty, ‘The Unfree Commons: Freedom of Marine Scientific Research and the Status of Genetic Resources beyond National Jurisdiction’ (2025) 88(2) MLR 300
The Sky's the Limit? SkyKick v Sky and Speculative Trade Mark Registration
Trade marks are registered for specific products, which defines the scope of their exclusive legal monopoly. To benefit from a broad scope, applicants increasingly overclaim. They apply for categories of products with no intention to use the mark on them...
Review of Mirosław Michał Sadowski, Intersections of Law and Memory: Influencing Perceptions of the Past, Abingdon, Oxon and New York, Routledge, 2024, 304 pp, hb, £135.00
In Intersections of Law and Memory, Mirosław Michał Sadowski shows that law actively shapes how social groups remember and relate to the past.CONTINUE READING FULL ARTICLE
‘Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic’: Some Thoughts on Academic Writing
Recognising Capabilities: The Importance of Recognition for Human Flourishing
This article aims to enrich critical sociolegal scholarship and methodological approaches within the field of capability theory by introducing ‘recognising capabilities analysis’. The recognising capabilities analysis embeds Nancy Fraser’s theory of recognition (particularly her concept of parity of participation), into...
The Small Claims Paper Determination Pilot: Filtering out the County Courts’ ‘Garbage Claims’
Conor Gearty
We are deeply saddened to announce that Conor Gearty, a long-standing member of the Modern Law Review Editorial Committee, died suddenly on 11 September 2025 at the age of 67. Conor was appointed to the Committee in 2009, taking on...
‘Sovereignty and the Persistence of the Aesthetic’: A Brief Rejoinder to Martin Loughlin
Rethinking Reasonableness in Rape Prosecution: Lessons Learned in the Search for ‘End to End’ Justice in England and Wales
Across several legal jurisdictions, the history of rape investigation and prosecution is one replete with points of crisis and condemnation, leading to high-profile reviews and reform. This article draws on original data that explores prosecutorial processes and decision-making in the...
Review of Brian R. Cheffins, Advanced Introduction to Corporate Governance Law and Regulation, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, 282 pp, pb £23.45, hb £93.00
As a leading scholar on corporate governance, Cheffins is uniquely positioned to deliver an overview of corporate governance law in this format, structured in a clear and logical progression, initially guiding readers through the foundational concepts of corporate governance law,...
Tech
The latest tech news about the world’s best (and sometimes worst) hardware, apps, and much more. From top companies like Google and Apple to tiny startups vying for your attention, Verge Tech has the latest in what matters in technology...
Microsoft
It might not get the same kind of attention as Google and Apple, but Microsoft is still one of the biggest and most powerful tech companies operating today. It runs Azure, one of the biggest cloud computing services, and maintains...
Netflix
With nearly 150 million subscribers around the world, Netflix has a commanding lead in the streaming wars. But it’s also facing heavy competition from deep-pocketed conglomerates like Disney, Apple, and AT&T, and an ongoing wave of narrow, targeted streaming sites...
The world’s largest social network has more than 2 billion daily users, and is expanding rapidly around the world. Led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook undergirds much of the world’s communication online, both...