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Navigating Organizational Control in a New Era of Work

The way we work has undergone a seismic shift over the past decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic acting as the latest catalyst for unprecedented change. Workplaces around the world are now defined by virtual...

Markus Kreutzer, Jorge Walter | 17 Mar 2025

Moving along the First Global Empire

We live now in a time in which more and more people vouch for building up walls and barriers to deter the movement of people as it is seen with suspicion; as if mobility were the cause of all contemporary...

Adolfo Polo y La Borda | 14 Mar 2025

Why don’t we see more autistic people in academia?

When I was a little girl, bullied by my peers and misunderstood by my teachers, I couldn’t wait to be a grown-up. I dreamed of my future life as a professor, filling my brain with facts and my shelves...

Sandra Thom-Jones | 13 Mar 2025

A Religion of Peace and Quiet? Islamic Nonviolence Between Justice and Quietism

What makes ‘a religion of peace’? This rarely-explained and occasionally maligned phrase has become a commonplace in 21st century speechcraft. Puzzlingly, it is rarely applied in a comparatively straightforward...

Tom Woerner-Powell | 13 Mar 2025

A New History of Theatre in France: Qu’est-ce que c’est?

Shuffling past the French Department noticeboard one day in my undergraduate first year, a small ad caught my eye. A week in Paris. All expenses paid. Was I dreaming? The small print, however, confirmed...

Clare Finburgh Delijani | 12 Mar 2025

Palladio’s Hybrid: A Renaissance Villa between Country and City

On Wednesday, the 29th of October 1567, the Venetian patrician Francesco Pisani lay mortally ill in his country house in Montagnana, 50 miles southwest of Venice. He summoned his long-time notary,...

Johanna D. Heinrichs | 7 Mar 2025

The Cambridge Handbook of Digital Evidence in Criminal Investigations

The age of electronic evidence: challenges and the need for cooperation of service providers In today’s digital age, where information and communication technologies have revolutionised how we communicate,...

Vanessa Franssen, Stanisław Tosza | 6 Mar 2025

Whose Rights? Whose Duties? Private Actors in the Constitutional Order

Who is responsible for your constitutional rights? The traditional answer is that constitutions create obligations for the state. So, state or government actors are responsible for upholding rights, from...

Christina R. Bambrick | 5 Mar 2025

Adolescent Voice: The Intersection of Technology and Participatory Health Research

I got my first mobile phone when I was 18 years old. Internet at my time still made this annoying sound trying to connect from the phoneline, that somebody else needed every time you were doing something...

Leonor Rodriguez-Estrada | 5 Mar 2025

Creative use of prior, likelihood and posterior distributions to develope dependence models using hierarchical structures

Bayes’ Theorem started as a way of obtaining conditional probabilities via the reversed conditionals and thus was called law of inverted probabilities. However, the Bayesian statistical theory uses...

Luis E. Nieto-Barajas | 5 Mar 2025

What Does Literature Have to Do with Political Thought? Moses and the Formation of the Pentateuch

The wilderness narrative, the story at the heart of the Torah, or Pentateuch, follows the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan—from enslavement, to liberation, to independence. In an important sense, though,...

Angela Roskop Erisman | 4 Mar 2025

Cambridge Handbook on Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law

Fabrizio and Mateusz live in the same jurisdiction. They enter the same website at the same time, search for the same product, but each person pays a different price. They each paid a personalized price. Will...

Mateusz Grochowski, Fabrizio Esposito | 3 Mar 2025