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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11 March 2026
Private Power, Public Values
It is not every day that a major AI company invokes constitutional values against the US government. Anthropic – the US-American AI company behind Claude – declined the US military’s request for unrestricted access to its AI tools, citing worries about domestic mass surveillance and the use of its technology in fully autonomous weapons. Recognising digital corporations as potential drivers of constitutional rights runs counter to the most recent literature on digital regulation and digital sovereignty. But perceiving them as such remains crucial. Continue reading >>
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27 January 2025
Omnipresent History
Present-time politics are, to an unprecedented extent, shaped by struggles over how to remember the past: Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine is led in the name of history; Germany’s wrestling with the war in Gaza is largely determined by its memory of the Holocaust, to give just two examples. However, historical narratives have not only swept into politics, but also into law. Continue reading >>
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