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Event: Bring in the algorithm! The biases of predictive models under scrutiny

November 26, 2020

While applications resulting from AI techniques continue to diversify, the law could not escape the trend of automating decision-making. This is manifested in particular by the proposition of using predictive models issued from machine learning (ML) techniques to drive future decisions in judiciary contexts… Read More here The event will take place Wed 16 Dec 2020 […]

That’s an Order! The Orders of the CJEU and the Effect of Article 99 RoP on Judicial Cooperation

October 21, 2020

Abstract The benefits of timely justice and rigorous judicial argument are impossible to overstate and hard to reconcile. In its struggle to deliver both, the Court of Justice of the European Union has initiated several reforms of its procedures. The so-called adjudicating orders arguably achieve the impossible: They fast-track recurring questions while safeguarding legal coherence. […]

XL Sunbelt Conference – Call for papers

January 20, 2020

June 2-7, 2020 – Paris France Session on Network Science and Law Submission deadline: January 31, 2020 (23.59 hrs. CET time) www.insna.org/call-for-oral-presentations-and-posters

The Politics of Law and Courts – call for papers

September 17, 2019

Dear colleagues, Professor Gunnar Grendstad (Bergen University) and associate professor Anna Wallerman Ghavanini (University of Gothenburg) are convening a workshop on The Politics of Law and Courts at next year’s Nordic Political Science Association (NoPSA) Congress on Iceland. The call for papers is now online, and the deadline is December 15th. I would be very grateful […]

The NoLesLaw Special Issue of the EJLS is published!

February 5, 2019

The Special Issue of the EJLS is published! Jakob Holtermann, Anne Lise Kjaer, Paivi Leino, Emilia Korkea-aho, Henrik Palmer Olsen and Amalie Frese unpack and scrutinize European Union lawyers, international law, legal knowledge, human rights, and the epistemology of legal empirical research. The special issue is the first output of the NoLesLaw initiative. The exact beginning of the […]