24 March 2026
Giving Answers, Raising Questions
A few weeks ago, the Czech Constitutional Court introduced an AI-powered legal chatbot directly on its official website, allowing users to ask questions in natural language and receive answers that synthesise the Court’s case law. At first glance, the innovation appears to offer a more convenient way to navigate constitutional jurisprudence. Yet the chatbot does more than help users find decisions. By selecting relevant cases, synthesising their meaning, and presenting the result as an answer to a concrete question, it inserts a new interpretive layer between the Court and the public. Continue reading >>
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18 February 2025
The De-Regulatory Turn of the EU Commission
The current events in the US, especially the takeover of executive branches by the non-elected private citizen Elon Musk, left legal scholars and other constitutional experts in a state of shocked disbelief. From a European perspective, many consider such a development unthinkable. However, we should not be too certain about that. The current decision of the EU Commission to carry out a “de-regulatory turn” illustrates how strongly a technical innovation narrative – one that has contributed to the success of individuals like Musk and their corporate conglomerates – is catching on globally. Continue reading >>
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30 March 2022
Proactive Contestation of AI Decision-making
Liberal democracies have an artificial intelligence problem. The disruptive impact and complex harms of artificial intelligence (AI) decision-making, including their intrusive surveillance, unjustifiable biases, and deceptive manipulations matter in all societies, but they matter more in open, pluralist democracies, which depend on messy human accountability processes. AI decision-making systems are notoriously resistant to demands for external scrutiny. Continue reading >>
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