24 July 2026
Cuts Behind the Scenes
How do I find ideas for what I write? Luckily, beyond law there is also theatre, where I do not have to choose between guilty and not guilty, where I can instead engage with social questions in all their ambivalence – though there too, crucially, you should not waffle, at least not without dramaturgical purpose. Because in theatre especially, you must think of the audience: away with overlong monologues, unnecessary scenes, confusing plots. Cut, cut, cut. I try to follow this rule when writing academic texts too. Unfortunately, the cutting does not happen in texts, where it would make sense, but behind the scenes, where it is devastating. Continue reading >>
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17 July 2026
Found Writing
In one of his tracks, the rapper Vega writes: I’m disappearing for a year, because I only write when it hurts. One could read that therapeutically, yet nothing in it speaks of writing as release, let alone redemption. The sting sits deeper: it sits in writing itself. Almost everything comes from outside. To write about creativity – perhaps even my own – in the age of “AI” therefore struck me as hardly worthwhile. It will already be written down somewhere, or at the very least is being written right now. And that is what this shall be about: a writing that reads – a “found writing.” Continue reading >>08 July 2026
AI Is Eating the Book World
In 2011, Marc Andreessen, a key figure in California’s venture capital scene, coined the phrase: “Software is eating the world.” The phrase describes the spread of software into everyday life and the displacement of physical business models. This process continues in an unexpectedly literal sense: AI companies purchase used books, scan them, and dispose of them to gather input for their models. The reason for this seemingly cumbersome method is the expectation that it will fall under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Continue reading >>
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08 July 2026
The Problems with “General Purpose AI Detectability”
As AI-generated media flood our information ecosystems, detecting synthetic content has become an urgent regulatory challenge – in fact, not one challenge but many, as synthetic media breeds problems across a range of digital contexts, including deepfakes and disinformation, scamming, and content moderation. The EU's new "Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content" – the first concrete articulation of Article 50(2) AI Act, the EU's approach to AI-content detection – gives sensible answers to several open questions and will advance the global regulatory debate. Continue reading >>
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19 June 2026
Spotting Mushrooms
Hunting for mushrooms is a passion of mine. I walk through the forest and let my scout’s eye wander. Hold on. Something’s not right. There’s something not quite natural about the way last year’s leaves are layered there, between those patches of sunlight. Among all the earth-brown and dust-grey, there are strange, often strangely intense colours: an egg-yolk yellow, a velvety brown, an ivory white. That is how I find mushrooms – and that is how I find my ideas when I write. Lately, I’ve had someone – or something – by my side. He, or it, is called Claude, and he presents him-/itself the whole time as though he/it were a companion, a subject, a person. Continue reading >>
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15 June 2026
Banned From the Future
With the latest US Department of Commerce Directive banning foreigners from access to Mythos and Fable 5 – the most advanced Anthropic AI models – citizenship has acquired a new function globally. On top of the traditional function of policing access to territory, confiding those in possession of second-rate citizenships to the spaces of no opportunity, the legal status of citizenship can now exclude from productivity and vital technology: policing access to the future. Continue reading >>08 May 2026
Musk v. Altman
It doesn’t happen often that corporate governance litigation raises existential stakes. A prominent exception is the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial, where Elon Musk and Sam Altman dispute over the future of OpenAI, the world's most famous artificial intelligence (“AI”) lab. The dispute hasn’t received much attention in the EU. Nonetheless, despite being held in a US district court over a US company and governed by US state and federal law, the case raises two fundamental issues with important implications for the ongoing European debate over AI regulation. Continue reading >>
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12 April 2026
Beyond Intermediaries
Recent investigations into the dissemination of illegal content generated by Grok have exposed a structural gap in the EU’s legislative framework: while the Digital Services Act equips the European Commission with far-reaching powers over large online platforms, it does not clearly capture generative AI systems per se. As a result, the Commission may be able to act against platforms integrating such systems (such as X), but not necessarily against the systems themselves (such as Grok). This asymmetry raises a broader question that has increasingly gained attention in policy and academic debates: can generative AI applications be brought within the scope of the DSA? Continue reading >>
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25 March 2026
Was und wie lehren wir im Jurastudium in Zeiten von KI?
Der technologische Wandel wird das Jura-Studium grundlegend verändern. Künstliche Intelligenz hat bereits heute erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die Lehre und Ausbildung. Universitäten, Hochschulen und Justizprüfungsämter müssen darüber nachdenken, über welche Fähigkeiten und Kompetenzen Absolvent:innen juristischer Studiengänge in der nahen Zukunft verfügen sollen. Dazu gehören neben juristischen Kernkompetenzen und spezifischen KI-Kompetenzen auch soziale, kommunikative und kritisch-reflexive Fähigkeiten Continue reading >>11 March 2026
Should Guns Be Able to Say No?
What if firearms themselves could refuse illegal commands? Recent technological advances have brought new possibilities that might help reduce these attacks within reach. It is now possible for firearms to be programmed to prevent users from firing at blatantly illegal targets. Now that this is the case, should states adopt legislation that forces manufacturers to incorporate that technology in their future production? Continue reading >>
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