Last week, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), elected three new judges to the European Court of Human Rights, in respect of Ireland, Latvia, and Liechtenstein. In respect of Ireland, Úna Ní Raifeartaigh was elected. She is currently a judge of the Court of Appeal of Ireland as well as being an…
Print this article POST 9 OF THE SERIES OF THE ODYSSEUS BLOG ON THE PACT ON MIGRATION & ASYLUM By Prof. Francesco Maiani, University of Lausanne Introduction As the Commission observed in 2020, “[t]here is currently no effective solidarity mechanism in place”. This is the cause of many woes for the Common European asylum system (CEAS):…
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Photo: Shantanu Kumar from pexels Generative AI (GenAI) is promising to revolutionise higher education. Whether it concerns legal scholars using ChatGPT to write their essays, computer science majors relying on GitHub Copilot to generate programming code, or art students turning to Midjourney to create visual artistry: the relevant AI tools to assist with educational assignments…
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Als Reaktion auf den Anschlag von Solingen will die Bundesregierung schnell Handlungsstärke beweisen. Ein am 9. September eingebrachter „Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Verbesserung der Terrorismusbekämpfung“ wurde bereits am 12. September in der ersten Lesung im Bundestag diskutiert und steht für den 23. September auf der Tagesordnung des Innenausschusses. Der Entwurf ist teilweise an anderer Stelle…
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The EU is taking legal action against the UK in response to the government’s plan to revise the Northern Ireland Protocol after the UK government released a bill proposing to unilaterally amend the legal mechanism that ensures smooth trade of goods between Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Europe. Refusing to renegotiate the protocol, the EU…
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The European Union (EU) – and its legal order – occupies a unique position in international law. In this context, the ‘autonomy of EU law’, since its judge-made creation in the 1960s, continues to fascinate international and EU law scholars alike – despite or perhaps even because of its notorious elusiveness and ‘shapeshifting’ character. The…
Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds from Wikipedia Large language models are built on scale. The bigger they are, the better they perform. The appetite for letters of these omnivorous readers is insatiable, so their literary diet must grow steadily if AI is to live up to its promise. If Samuel Johnson, in one of his…
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Source: https://bit.ly/3L9sNxX Praneet Pandey & Kalhan Safaya* In March of 2021, the International Trademark Association (herein referred to as INTA) brought certain ‘amicus briefs’ before the Grand Board of Appeals (GBoA) of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) apropos of the three parallel appeals put forth by The Estate of The Late Sonia Brownell…
Corona forces German courts into de facto lockdown for 2020 If you want to end a German legal dispute in the foreseeable future – settle! If you have beef with a German business partner, do not count on any help from German civil or business courts during spring and summer 2020. While German civil courts…
More than 300 autonomous members of the Holy Roman Empire came together to create a common currency based on silver in the mid-sixteenth century. Drawing on a new book, Oliver Volckart explains the background to this important moment in Europe’s economic history. In the mid-sixteenth century, the Holy Roman Empire had about 300 largely autonomous…
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