Tag: artificial-intelligence
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The Logic(s) of International Law
My latest publication for 2025 is out. Together with Antonia Waltermann, we co-edited a Special Issue of the Hague Yearbook of International Law on The Logic(s) of International Law. The motivating question for this Special Issue is simple, but the answers are not: what role does logic play in international law? And is there a…
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Article Publication in the International Community Law Review (Open Access)
My latest article, ‘Lex Specialis as a Reason-Giving Norm: Balancing Norm Specificity and Individual Rights in Times of Crisis’, is now available in International Community Law Review (Vol. 27, 2025). At the heart of this piece is a computational reasoning framework that reinterprets lex specialis—not as a rigid trump card, but as a defeasible, reason-giving…
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The ‘Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the Law Conference’ was a Success!
On 30-31 October and 1 November 2024, Maastricht University Faculty of Law held the Narratives, Frontier Technologies & The Law (NFT-L) Conference. Our conference featured nearly thirty presentations across six panels and six keynote speeches. It provided an engaging platform for academic and cultural diversity, bringing together experts in mathematics, biomedicine, philosophy, law, and the…
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New Article in Springer Nature’s AI & Society Journal
My new open-access article was published in Springer Nature’s AI & Society journal, ‘Can large language models apply the law?’ In this piece, I argue that LLMs cannot apply the law. Note that this is not a matter of whether LLMs should apply the law. Rather, I examine whether they can—I conclude that they can’t.…
