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Powerful tool or potential threat?

Wed 11 Jun - Thu 12 Jun 2025

The EUI Law Department, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law (MPI – CSL) hosts a two-day event exploring the intersection of AI and criminal law.

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Publications

Research focuses on the challenges facing European law, public international law, and private law, looking at cultural, political, and economic topics.

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Nina Bries Silva #MyEUIResearch

Hearing the Indigenous voice in international law with Nina Bries Silva

In this #MyEUIResearch video, Nina Bries Silva, researcher at the EUI Department of Law, reimagines international law by integrating Indigenous ontologies, seeking to develop decolonial approaches that place Indigenous knowledge systems on equal footing with Western frameworks.

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Big data, big money: talking trouble with Nicolas Petit and Iva Nenadić

In this #EUIUpFront conversation, Nicolas Petit, Head of the EUI Department of Law, and Iva Nenadić, Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre, discuss the shifting balance of power between tech giants and the state, analysing the growing alignment between corporate platforms and political authority.

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How history informs the present: Shari’a law and tribal justice in Syria

How have tribal justice and Shari’a law influenced each other in Syria’s history? CIVICA Fellow Dima Hussain traces their evolving interaction, from historical roots to modern-day Idlib, exploring legal pluralism beyond state control through her work at EUI and the Central European University.

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Who owns justice? A conversation with Julia Emtseva

Julia Emtseva, a Max Weber Fellow at the EUI Department of Law, looks into the complex interplay between private actors and transitional justice, especially focusing on their ever-growing role in performing public functions, as well as on how we can rethink transitional justice from a different angle.

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Video Spotlight

2025 Ceremony for graduates of the PhD, LLM, and Master of Research in Economics programmes

#MyEUIResearch with Joo Cheong Tham | Labor law, climate change, and democratic solidarity

The EUI PhD programme in Law

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50139 Firenze (FI)

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