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Public law, human rights, & constitutions at Cambridge, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College: www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/s-theil/6578 Current research on free expression and doctrinal methods. Book: Towards the Environmental Minimum.
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We of course have a moral obligation to help a democratic country fend off an invasion by an imperialist dictatorship. The fact that this apparently needs to be said shows you how quickly the US is descending into a hybrid regime. Democratic states stick together.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A few quick pointers for German election watchers: 1) Voting is today until 18:00 (17:00 GMT) in most areas. 2) At that time, we can expect a good indication of the final results based on exit polls. 3) More accurate extrapolations from partial results roll in shortly afterwards. 1/2

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

'The post-World War Two political system in Germany is designed so that no single party can dominate parliament as the Nazis did.' That is just nonsense. 1) The Weimar Republik had pretty much the exact same proportional voting system as West Germany after 1945. 1/2 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

"We do not need a foreign policy: we are not a country. Nor do we need a view on every occurrence: we are not a newspaper. The concern of a university is that opinions are reached on the basis of truth, reason & knowledge, which requires thinking & speaking with freedom" www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

There are hard limits to the extent that AI can be meaningfully participate in the inherently social practice of law. The test cited in the article below points to additional real world limits, even if only used as a supportive tool. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Come join us at Cambridge as our new Assistant Professor in Private Law! The private law colleagues are absolutely lovely and you'll grow to appreciate the public lawyers (we're an acquired taste 😉) Details below, deadline is 2 March 2025 www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/jobs/2...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Tapping once again the 'Please don't draw general claims about constitutionalism/constitution/constitutional law from the case of the United States' sign

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

OpenAI complaining about intellectual property theft as if its own model wasn't trained on vast amounts of copyrighted material without consent. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Useful piece from BBC Verify. We have to stop pretending we can tackle climate change without changing our lifestyles, or that some future technology will solve it for us. If we're serious that this is the great threat of our times, everything else has to bend to that www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

I don't have any issues with e.g. increasing compute capacity, but most of this still feels like chasing shadows

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

And in fun prorogation news, it seems yet annother Canadian gov has been tempted by a highly political prorogation that essentially serves party political interests, frustrates confidence motions and the wider work of Parliament. The quicker this perogative power is abolished, the better.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment