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Genealogy is a form of argument that seeks to discredit social phenomena by exposing their pernicious ancestry. In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has used

The mapping of the French media ecosystem aims to produce a technical infrastructure to monitor the media landscape's news information and circulation dynamics. We produced a database comprising a large sample of major authoritative news media and alternative sources. Using a global and structural approach, we analyzed the relationships between the French media sources regarding their authority, ideological position, and audience. We also used De Facto’s enriched database of fact checks, the statistical and topological properties of Twitter accounts regularly sharing misinformation to measure their activity and visualize their position in the media ecosystem. First, we present the protocol and the methodology used to produce the dataset, then we describe the general structure and the properties of the French media ecosystem with a specific focus on disinformation.

Les Journées internationales sud-coréennes, deux fois reportées à cause de la crise sanitaire, se tiendront enfin du 16 au 18 juin 2025, à Séoul, et porteront sur le thème de “L’intelligence artificielle“. Le premier questionnaire portera sur “Intelligence artificielle et […]

Today's blog post announces the most viewed legal research reports and Global Legal Monitor articles of 2024.

This paper presents a data analysis of the four most important legal questions at issue in the 2024 International Court of Justice advisory opinion on cl

International human rights courts review applications brought before them by victims and these courts need to determine whether the facts they describe

The value of data is widely acknowledged, and in democratic institutions, data can play an important role when striving for more transparency, innovative workin

Under both the Court's current Buckley test and under any plausible version of originalism, contributions to independent political action committees are

Jocelyn Simonson, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration (2023).Jessica M. EaglinIt is easy to privilege certain kinds of “doing” in law. From constitutional law and the courts to statutory mandates and the legislature, these are highly visible examples of law in action. As such, their effect and import are deeply studied, and criminal law is no different. Yet there are so many ways to “do” and interact with criminal law, a key takeaway from [...]

This Article examines the potential use of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT in constitutional interpretation. LLMs are extremely powerful tools, with s

The new wave of global autocratization seems to be here to stay. Reports from the V-Dem Institute demonstrate that in 2023, at least 42 countries were undergoin

This Article debunks myths about the common/civil law distinction and offers a more sober, evidence-based account. Few rules and institutions are systematically

Millions of people are affected by data breaches every year, A data breach may have occurred when unauthorized individuals gain access to confidential, private,

For nearly two centuries all three branches of the federal government have thought that the original meaning of the Constitution’s references to treaties and