The absolute highlight of the trip were of course two days Public International Law at Lund packed with fantastic discussions about rights of corporations in the technocene. So much food for thought! Thank you to Eduardo Gill-Pedro and jaakko salminen for putting together such a great workshop.

Meidän Lexsecure Project #huoltovarmuus projektin lopputuloksia #lakimies -lehdessä 💎, joka julkaistu tänään. jaakko salminen Mikko Rajavuori Kirsi-Maria Halonen kirsimariah.bsky.social Mika Viljanen Isabell Storsjö Piia Kaave + Tomi Tuominen Uni Lapland Law University of Lapland Uni Turku Law UEF Law School

Oletko kiinnostunut oikeuselämästä etkä pelkää tarttua kynään? Onko sinulla visio, kuinka viestiä oikeuden kentän ilmiöistä, krumeluureista ja tapahtumista? Oikeudellinen elämä -palsta etsii uutta kirjoittajaa. Jos olet etsimämme henkilö, laita DM tai laita mailia! 😎

Never miss a chance to work with Anna Beckers👇

And here they are: Vacancies for 2 interdisciplinary PhD positions at my CHAINLAW project, hosted Law in Maastricht. Join us as a
PhD researcher in Socio-Legal Studies: academictransfer.com/nl/333843/phd-… or
PhD researcher in Law & Science and Technology Studies: academictransfer.com/nl/333861/phd-…

As the social functions of private law are in flux, also its basic notions, doctrines & institutions are in continuous need of justification.

What future do they generate?

Thrilled abt theme & sem 1 lineup of our Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law Lecture Series

Details: act.uva.nl/content/news/2…

Today and yesterday our Lexsecure Project Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland project has gathered 30 academics around the world to discuss the role of law in building #resilience , #globalvaluechains , securityofsupply
Amazing new contacts + great presentations 🙌 Uni Turku Law Uni Lapland Law UEF Law School

🪐Do the UNGPs and HREDD laws apply to the outer space activities of corporations? I'll address this question tomorrow, in this #PhD webinar organized by Università di Pisa 🌕
#bizhumanrights #spacelaw #CSDDD #SpaceMining #sustainability
sp.unipi.it/it/seminario-d…

Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland funded LEXSECURE project’s final seminar in Helsinki 24 Oct 2023. Come and learn about our research on the role of law in building #securityofsupply and crisis management. There will be interesting keynotes and panel discussion as well

lexsecure.org/events/

International law may have a limited imagination but looking at private law lack of imagination might feel more appropriate. But I'm too harsh. Suffice to say same applies here too.

Happy to share that my article on the ECT and Rockhopper is out! the article shows how the Energy Charter Treaty can be deployed to expand the fossil fuel industry’s rights and counter democratic forces animating the ecological transition. Check here doi.org/10.14324/111.4… a🧵

What a birthday present, to get a Festschrift on your honour!

Veikko Vahtera and Krista Rantasaari (toim.): Yritys, kirjanpito, kestävyys: Juhlajulkaisu Jukka Mähönen [Firm, accounting, sustainability: Festschrift Jukka Mähönen] (Helsinki: Alma Talent, 2023)

Lost in Technology: Towards a Critique of Repugnant Rights--looking very much forward to the singular Toni Selkälä defending his dissertation with Fleur Johns as opponent. Can be followed online via link below at about 14 CET (15 Finnish time). Hooray!

The team of my refugee finance project will soon take shape: join us! Doctoral position just released, hot from the oven: rb.gy/hs45b
And don't forget the postdoc post too rb.gy/zx7xl! Come join REF-FIN! 🥳

There are still a few days left to respond to our CfP for 'Decoding the Rights of Companies in the Technocene', to be held at Lund University 4–5 December 2023. Abstracts due 15 September—any and all aficionados of how corporate rights, law and power shape the world, take heed!

The signatories are right that EU #Deforestation Reg & other value chain regulations risk deepening, rather than alleviating, power differentials along the chain by pushing compliance costs down the chain. Necessary to require active capacity-building from lead firms &importers.

Informationspflichten sind meist unternehmensfreundlichste (&billigste) Regulierungsform.

Diagnose d Bundesregierung richtig: ZU beliebt geworden, aber: Lösung nicht Ausdünnen v Informationspflichten, sondern Entwicklung komplexerer Alternativen (inkl Haftung, Standards,..)

#LKSG

Companies and their global networks shape the world more than any individual human being, yet arguments abound that companies should be treated equally to humans. Join us Lund University 4–5 Dec 2023 for the workshop 'Decoding the Rights of Companies in the Technocene'!

New article out in Law and Critique, open access! Coauthored with Mika Viljanen: ‘Lost in Transduction: From Law and Code’s Intra-actions to the Right to Explanation in the European Data Protection Regulations’.
With support of Uni Turku Law Suomen Akatemia | Research Council of Finland
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I've spent much of the past few weeks plowing through the resources that universities are pushing out to faculty as a response to the rise of generative AI (ie ChatGPT).

Without calling out any institution, I'm utterly pessimistic about the responses I've seen.