Hendrik Mathis Drößler’s Post

Looking forward to sharing some thoughts on the use of AI in the making of international law, paying tribute to the work of Emilie van den Hoven and explaining the methodology developed in my ERC ADG on 'Counting as a Human Being in the Era of Computational Law' (www.cohubicol.com). I will argue that AI models and systems are dependent on the proxies chosen in the development phase, referring to invisible technical choices that may nevertheless have far-reaching normative implications. If the identification of legal norms in the context of international law becomes dependent on complex technologies that operate as black boxes, the legal battle will be displaced by a battle about AI accuracy, explainability and/or bias, noting that states that lack the funding to invest in the contestation of AI-generated 'evidence' may be overruled, having to accept algorithmic claims as if they are facts. The issue of the burden of proof and the definition of 'open AI' must be scrutinised and reinvented to create a level playing field that aligns with the rule of law rather than the power of dominant players.

When money flows where it should: Thomas will be researching the divide between the European human rights court on the one hand and intra-American and African courts on the other hand, when it comes to the regulation/facilitation of mobility.

Six SteR PhD candidates (Sandra Arntz, Sjoerd Bakker, Samuel Ballin, Sophie V., Seema Mohammed Murtuza and Martyna Stećko) have taken the wonderful initiative of organizing a doctoral workshop on #Sustainability & #PublicLaw. Please find the Call4Papers here. Are you a PhD candidate in law? And does your research include some aspect of sustainability and public law? Join us on April 7th for a doctoral workshop on sustainability and public law. During the workshop, PhD candidates can present their research and brainstorm creative and multidisciplinary approaches to this varied and complicated legal issue. For the topic of the PhD projects, see https://lnkd.in/eKdUWBp2

𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 “𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲’𝐬 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐰. 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐞 𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐞” The annual conference’s programme of this year aims to take stock of and critically approach the current state of health of transnational bottom-up actions, proposals and strategies to support the multilateral regimes for international human rights law, international democracy, and peace, their norms, values and institutions. The call for papers is open to human rights scholars, researchers as well as Ph.D candidates is open. The deadline to submit the abstract is 30th September 2024 (midnight). Visit https://lnkd.in/edFRq9iG to read the call for paper and further info. University of Gothenburg | University of Graz | Human Rights Consortium | Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York | Institute of International and Security Studies, University of Wroclaw #humanrights #civilsociety #law #international #conference #UniversitàdegliStudidiPadova #UnivesityofPadova

“Évolution or revolution?”. Rather a strong title in my view and I certainly incline to the former but there is a lot going in the law, economics, and policy relating to abuse of dominance - at both the EU and national level. For example, the European Commission has published its draft guidelines on Article 102, the Court of Justice has given judgment in the landmark Google Shoppig case, and national competition authorities are quietly pushing the boundaries of what amounts to an abuse. Anyone wanting to get up to date or dive more deeply into all this is invited to join the workshop in Brussels on Friday afternoon co-organised by the Inclusive Competition Forum (ICF) and UCL’s Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES). My own contribution specific contribution will be look at the extent to which we can and are tackling abusive unsustainable practices of dominant companies as an abuse of dominance ( and do the guidelines help?). #monopoly #antitrust #competitionlaw #europeancommission #ucl #climatechange #greendeal #sustainsbility

✅ Today we share a paper by a body of researchers from Poland. 📊 This study presents an innovative approach to assessing the environmental impacts of legal remedies in consumer sales law, focusing on nonconforming goods. 💡 By utilizing Life Cycle Thinking and Life Cycle Assessment methods, the research highlights the complexities of designing eco-friendly legal frameworks, making it a valuable read for anyone interested in sustainable development and legal policy innovation. 🔗 Full study, as always, is available in open-access website of the "Contemporary Economics" Journal: https://lnkd.in/g8684-R4

Call for papers! On 3 and 4 April 2025, Erasmus School of Law and University of Groningen, Faculty of Law co-organize the conference 'Law in the Age of Transitions' in Groningen, as part of the Sectorplan Rethinking Public Interests in Private Relationships. Societal challenges and transitions related to climate change, public health and economic prosperity converge with political-economic and governance transitions. Legislative initiatives like the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Service Act, the Net-Zero Industry Act, or the Critical Raw Materials Act have far-reaching ambitions and shake-up the political economy of the Union. Drawing from this transformational spirit, our conference concentrates on how law reinterprets the public-private challenge and revises the balance between public and private actors. In other words, how does the law restructure claims and burdens, rights and entitlements between private and public actors in these emerging transitions? Interested to contribute to our conference? Please submit your abstract by 15 December. Please find more information via this link: https://lnkd.in/eenAYdQ7. Co-organized with the EUR- RUG Sectorplan team Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi, René Repasi, Koen Swinnen, Enrique Santamaría Echeverría, Ioannis Kampourakis, María Campo Comba, Michal Stambulski, Irene Visser, Arpi Karapetian, Liesbeth Enneking, Martijn Schippers, Martien Schaub, Alberto Quintavalla, Lea Diestelmeier, Lottie Lane,

Exciting News! ✨ I am thrilled to share that I have been accepted as a writer for the collaboration between the IE International Policy Review, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs, and Bocconi Advocacy & Litigation. In this role, I will be contributing to an innovative research project centered on Tech Law. This collaboration is particularly focused on combining insights from multiple jurisdictions to analyze pressing issues in today's policy landscape. 🌍📚 Collaborating with brilliant minds from both IE University and Università Bocconi will be an incredible learning experience! #IEUniversity #Bocconi #IPR #TechLaw #PolicyResearch

Dear network, I am glad to announce the acceptance of the following article of myself and my co-authors that just got accepted this Saturday: Pereira, M.A., L. Bădin, K. Kerstens, M.C. Silva (2024) An Integrative Approach to Reviewing the Literature on Judicial Efficiency in Europe, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, forthcoming. Abstract: The law exists to regulate the behaviour of the members of its community. Economics exists to study the behaviour of individual or group economic agents in allocating resources for production, distribution, and consumption. Together, law and economics concern the application of economics to the practice of law, seeing the law as an economic efficiency-promoting tool for social purposes. Indeed, economic development and litigation have evolved hand in hand, which led to a growing difference between supply and demand with a direct impact on judicial efficiency. However, evaluating the functioning of judicial machinery has been addressed superficially in the literature. Furthermore, grasping the big picture of judicial efficiency in a structured way has never been attempted. Therefore, this integrative literature review investigates judicial efficiency within the European context by synthesising law and economics research. From over 6,500 articles, 50 were critically analysed, offering new perspectives for future research and policy implications on enhancing European judicial systems. This analysis concerned bibliographic data (e.g., 80% of the studies have been published over the last decade), application context (e.g., Italian courts are the most studied entities), model structure (e.g., Data Envelopment Analysis-based methods are the most used ones to measure judicial efficiency), and key findings (e.g., courts across Europe are very heterogeneous). In the end, we provide several renewed perspectives on judicial efficiency that can pave the way for the future of this topic. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first complete survey on court efficiency. Do not hesitate to ask for copies: k.kerstens@ieseg.fr. Enjoy your reading, do not hesitate to cite widely (😉), and share... Thanks to my co-authors: Miguel Alves Pereira, Luiza Bădin & Maria Conceição Silva for a great collaboration! #Research #CNRS #IESEGResearch #LEM #UnivLille #Production #Efficiency #Courts

Here is a list of all of the winners from the antitrust Oscars. It's wonderful to see so many strong papers rewarded. As with the actual Oscars, I would be remiss if I did not note that there are many deserving nominations that also should have/could have won. #abaantitrust #usc #uscmarshall #antitrust #competitionlaw