15 October 2026
The Extractive State: Or, Peter Thiel in Argentina
Much of what lies ahead for Brazil, should Bolsonaro defeat Lula in the second round, can be studied in Argentina. In Thiel’s own words, his visits to Argentina are a journey to the end of the world – a perfect spot to bunker up in the event of an Apocalypse. By working hand in hand with the self-declared “anarcho-libertarian” president, Javier Milei, Argentina could experiment with its legal, political and economic system to the benefit of Silicon Valley and finance capitalists, while also taking the international far-right project to new heights. Continue reading >>
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14 October 2026
The (Currently) Uneven Intelligence of AI in Comparative Constitutional Law
Our results suggest that LLMs’ usefulness for comparative constitutional data collection depends on what researchers ask them to code. They may be able to produce datasets that simply code constitutional facts, but current versions of LLMs do not perform well when asked to create datasets that require interpreting abstract constitutional concepts or reasoning about law. However, since the models make errors in systematic ways, researchers should always be cautious about treating LLM-generated data as interchangeable with expert-coded data. Continue reading >>
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08 October 2026
Thinking Machines, Thinking Lawyers
This symposium explores the relationship between AI and the production and delivery of legal knowledge. It also interrogates how emerging AI-based capabilities are shaping the way lawyers think, research, and act. It does not claim to present perfect answers, but is an attempt to initiate conversations on the multifaceted changes posed by AI-assisted capabilities to our traditional ways of doing legal research and teaching. Continue reading >>25 September 2026
Why I Write
I am not an award-winning writer or scholar. I live and work in conditions that are endlessly generative in terms of ideas that I could write about, and still, those very same conditions make it almost impossible to write. I write because I have come to know that it is a way in which I experience my humanness and a way in which I connect with the humanness of others across time and space. Perhaps this is why, for my writing, I do not use AI, at least not intentionally and not yet. Continue reading >>
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11 September 2026
Towards the Smoothed Word
İnsan olmaya geldim – I have come to be human. The line goes back to Nimri Dede, a folk poet from a village near Elazığ. If you know it, you probably know it in the voice of Arif Sağ, who turned the poem into one of the best-known spiritual songs of the Alevi-Bektashi tradition. Each stanza ends on the same rhyme: Özde, in the core. Sözde, in the word. Yüzde, in the face. İzde, in the trace. Közde, in the embers. Registers of becoming human, listed one after another, none struck out or played off against the others – like a refusal to split being human into a part fit to be shown and a part one merely brings along. The academic world I work in often demands the opposite movement. It demands the split: bring the word, leave the core at home. Continue reading >>
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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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01 May 2026
The Human Trick
Today, on May Day, is a good day to reflect on the work we do ourselves. We at Verfassungsblog can clearly feel that something is shifting. More and more of the texts arriving in our inboxes read as oddly smooth. These AI-(de)generated texts come from a brave new world, but they have no real origin. They were born outside the body: without the long, laborious process of conceiving an idea, nourishing it, and bringing it into the world. What they lack is a person who has experienced something, read something, really thought it through. Continue reading >>
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25 March 2026