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Mathematical frameworks to understand the logic of life

The complexity of living systems is among the most fascinating subjects in science. From cellular responses, adaptation and rhythms, synchronized firing of neurons to the emergence of multicellular patterns...

Hiroaki Takagi, Chikara Furusawa, Satoshi Sawai, Kunihiko Kaneko | 23 May 2025

Percy Shelley in Context

When the idea of setting up a Modern Languages school (which was intended to include the study of English) was being debated at the University of Oxford in the late 1880s, E.A. Freeman, Regius Professor...

Ross Wilson | 23 May 2025

Reinventing a Nation: How Zionism Tried to Reimagine Jewish Identity

Zionism wasn’t just a political movement, it was a bold cultural experiment. At its heart was an ancient story: the idea that the Jewish people had a historic connection to the land of Palestine. But...

Yaron Peleg | 22 May 2025

Balancing Pressures in Governing the European Economy

Governing the European economy does not result from decisions taken by national executives acting in isolation. It is the product of a laborious and frequently frustrating coordination effort orchestrated...

Fabio Franchino, Camilla Mariotto | 15 May 2025

INSTITUTIONAL EXTENSIONS OF A REMARKABLE SUPREME COURT DECISION

On April 10 2025 SCOTUS decided on the case 24A949 Noem vs. Abrego Garcia. Examining the reasoning of a District Court ordering the Government to “facilitate and effectuate the return of [Abrego Garcia]...

George Tsebelis | 14 May 2025

The dynamics of international orders

In the current moment we are experiencing a profound shift in the international order. Russia militarily attacked Ukraine, a sovereign state, and the emerging attempts at peace negotiations most loudly...

Alena Drieschova | 13 May 2025

A Perspective from Rural America: Lawyers and the Viability of Rural Law Practice

Rural areas are struggling. Rural poverty is increasing as jobs in agriculture, manufacturing, and resource extraction dry up. Small communities are shrinking: losing churches, schools, dentists, doctors,...

Hannah Haksgaard | 12 May 2025

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Directors

Can editing an encyclopedia of stage directors be anything but an impossible task? Simon Williams (UC Santa Barbara) and I were invited to consider such an undertaking just under a decade ago; Simon had...

Simon Williams, Maria M. Delgado | 8 May 2025

Leading the way for Generation Alpha

The incessant rate at which the world is changing is causing greater levels stress, especially for youth. Shared global challenges such as climate change, threats of disease, political unrest, the rise...

Christopher J. Kazanjian | 7 May 2025

Negative Freedoms in Twentieth-Century Europe

How can individual freedom be historicised in the context of twentieth-century Europe? When setting out to answer this question I found myself grappling with the following problem: on the one hand, contemporaries...

Moritz Föllmer | 7 May 2025

Robogovt: how should we regulate automated government decision-making?

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have enabled widespread automation of government decision-making in Western liberal democracies. Yet vulnerable populations have been seriously harmed because...

Yee-Fui Ng | 6 May 2025

How does the law protect our thoughts? Exploring global protections for the right to freedom of thought

The right to freedom of thought was a neglected right until recently. It was so overlooked that although article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and article 9 of the European...

Patrick O'Callaghan, Bethany Shiner | 5 May 2025