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This paper is an earlier draft version of the Introduction to my upcoming monograph, published by Oxford University Press.

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This Article considers the influence of Large Language Models (LLMs) on legal practice and the legal services industry. In the near term, LLMs will spur new leg

For many decades, researchers sought to understand whether courts influence public opinion and what factors moderate or intensify such influence. In this study,

Commentators often lament that the American legal curriculum does not adequately focus on comparative law teaching, and that this reality has important adverse

This short article examines the origins - at least etymologically - of the modern magistrate and the many positions around the world and through history that ha

There is broad consensus that there are features of adjudication from which no deviation should be allowed—the quintessential one being the requirement that jud

Law by design obligations represent a dynamic and emerging regulatory approach increasingly prominent in European digital technology regulation. Originating in

The European Union’s (EU) accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has been under discussion for more than 40 years. After the Court of Justi

Our research presents the etymology of the French word huis and its derivatives. The use of the phraseological expression huis clos as the term closed trial in

This article argues that Magna Carta has a central place in the development of debate and deliberative politics in parliament. Its focus is chapter 12

This article is an update of one of the ten lectures I delivered remotely and asynchronously in my summer 2021 Hague Academy General Course in Private Internati

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is currently evaluating whether Convention No.87  of the International Labour Organization (ILO) safeguards the right of trade unions to engage in collective action, specifically the right to strike. This inquiry follows a request for an advisory opinion by the ILO, after the employer representative walkout in 2012 and subsequent […]

An empirical approach to comparative law is challenging: neither are jurisdictions independent, nor can observational data isolate the causal effect of differen

Article 38 (1) (a) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice lists as one of the sources applied by the Court ‘the general principles of law recogniz

This article makes the case for the use of focus groups as a method with particular relevance to the field of comparative constitutional studies. The article be