Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! Even though I still haven't returned to my usual newslettering rhythm, I must say that things are going generally well. Life in Madrid is treating me well, I got two revise and resubmit results
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! I hope you had a lovely summer/winter break. Here, my significant otter and I have spent most of the last few months working out the details of our move to Madrid and settling up in
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! I hope you have been doing well since the last issue, a few weeks ago. Summer was never my favourite time of the year, and moving countries during a heatwave wasn't a particularly pleasant
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! It has been over a month since my last newsletter, and quite a bit has happened since then. I am finally done (for the time being) with the manuscript for my monograph on technology-neutral regulation.
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! This is a bit late in the month for my first newsletter of May, but there was quite a bit going on. I am making progress towards my book manuscript (but it's not done
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! In today's issue, I share a note that ended being a bit longer than originally foreseen, about the notions of 'essentially contested concepts' and 'magic concepts'. After that, we have
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! Last week, I had shared some events I was going to attend, and I was working on a more substantive issue of this newsletter for today. All of that was, in military parlance, overcome by events.
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Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! In recent weeks, I have not had much to share, as I have been focused on my job search and my ongoing manuscript. One of these things is out of the way now, and I will
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! Today's issue will be mercifully brief, as I want mostly to share some personal news. First of all, my time in Luxembourg is nearing an end: while I still have some months left in
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! It has been about a week since I've last written to (most of) you. In the meantime, we keep being flooded with news about the Digital Omnishambles, academic job markets remain pretty uncertain, and
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! It feels like it has been a while since I've posted a substantive essay in this newsletter. I guess that is a bit due to my awkward position in terms of works in progress:
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! It has been a bit over three weeks since the previous newsletter, but that delay is largely for good reasons. After a slow start to the year, my two remaining brain cells seem to be back
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! Is 20 January already? Oh my! I surely am not back to my cruise speed yet, and I don't really know why. I'd love to blame the Luxembourgish weather, but I think
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! First of all, I would like to wish you a happy new year. Even though 2026 has already started with some awful news in the macro scale (not personally, but look at the world!), I can
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! As you read this issue, I am putting the final touches on my presentation for the workshop Methods in Legal Discipline: Post-Doctoral Insights Across Research Fields, in which I will talk about how to engage
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! November has been a bit more busy than I expected, between teaching, research, planning, and Winnie's health (she's well now, but she gave us quite a bit of a scare some weeks
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! I hope you are doing well these days. My plans were to write this issue shortly after the previous one. However, a few of my works in progress are finally coming to fruition and, since they
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! After a flurry of posts in August and September, I had to take a few weeks off writing this newsletter, in order to stop procrastinating finish some projects. While I still owe some writings to some
Hello, dear reader, and welcome to another issue of AI, Law, and Otter Things! In today's issue, I wrap up my initial reflections on legal research programmes and the production of knowledge with some thoughts on whether the notion of a 'degenerate research programme' might help