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  • 3 Feb 2026
    Elisabeth Steindl

    When Minds Are Turned Into Data: Governing Emotion Technology and Neurotechnology under EU Law

    Alongside, and fuelled by, rapid advances in artificial intelligence, recent years have witnessed the rise of technologies that appear to cross what was once considered the final frontier: the datafication of the human mind. Emotion technology and neurotechnology, collectively referred to as Mind Datafying Technologies (MDTs) in my book A Datafied Mind: Untangling EU Regulation […]

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  • 29 Jan 2026
    Bill Davies, Morten Rasmussen

    The History of European Union Law

    It is a sure bet that almost every study ever written on EU law has, at some point, referenced Eric Stein’s aphorism that the Court of Justice of the EU has been able to fashion a constitutional, federal-type framework of EU law “tucked away in the fairyland Duchy of Luxembourg…blessed…with benign neglect.” This view that […]

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  • 23 Jan 2026
    Kent Roach

    American Exceptionalism, Comparative Miscarriages of Justice and JJ Velazquez

    Jon-Adrian (JJ) Velazquez has recently sued New York City and its police for $100 million stemming from his wrongful murder conviction. Velazquez is best known for his role in the Oscar nominated film Sing Sing depicting how he and other prisoners had formed a theatre group in the maximum security prison where he was imprisoned […]

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  • 20 Jan 2026
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    Matteo Gatti

    Corporations as Political and Governing Actors in the Current Era

    For much of the past decade, corporations occupied a very visible place in public life. They spoke after Charlottesville and January 6, opposed the withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, intervened in immigration and voting debates, and redesigned internal policies—from reproductive healthcare to gun sales—in response to political change. In the process, the boundary between economic […]

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  • 6 Jan 2026
    Zheng Sophia Tang

    Smart Court: How Technology Is Rewriting the Future of Justice

    When people imagine a courtroom, they tend to picture a judge in robes, wooden benches, towering shelves of paper files and a sense of solemn formality. But that world is already dissolving. Across the globe, justice systems are quietly undergoing one of the most profound transformations in their history — a shift from paper, people […]

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  • 4 Dec 2025
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    Atinuke O. Adediran

    What Corporate Words Teach Us About Race

    In the summer of 2020, corporate America found its voice on race. Across every sector, from finance to retail to tech, corporations and their executives issued public statements proclaiming solidarity with Black communities and pledging to confront racial inequality. I watched this unfold like many others—partly inspired by the apparent shift. After all, the Business […]

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  • 2 Dec 2025
    Hanna Eklund

    Europe’s History of Colonialism and the European Union’s legal order

    How has Europe’s century-spanning history of colonialism shaped the development of the European Union (EU) legal order? The book Colonialism and the EU Legal Order edited by Hanna Eklund explore this question across 16 chapters and analyses how colonialism has had an impact on the drafting and application of EU law, on the methods of […]

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  • 1 Dec 2025
    Jozefien Vanherpe

    Like a Rolling Stone: the Shifting Landscape of Music Contracts

    Music forms the soundtrack that accompanies and brightens our daily lives. It is one of the very few endeavours that unite us all. Its intrinsic value is undeniable. However, this often does not translate into economic value. In the streaming era, instantaneous music accessibility is the norm. It is deceptively easy to forget the artistic […]

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