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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
How did Indigenous people in the New World understand their encounters with Europeans during the colonial era? This question is at the centre of ongoing debates among anthropologists and historians and...
When the editors of The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature first contacted me with a request to serve on the volume’s advisory council, they promised that their demands on my time would be...
In our new book “The EU Law on Crypto-Assets” (Cambridge University Press, 2025, 560pp), we discuss the EU’s regulatory responses to the rapidly growing area of crypto-assets, framed against challenges...