Matthew Haji-Michael
@theruleoflawguy.bsky.social
Political theory PhD student working on all things Rule of Law. Based in Vienna at CEU (@weareceu.bsky.social)
Website: https://www.matthewhajimichael.com/home
Institutional Page: https://dsps.ceu.edu/people/matthew-haji-michael
Website: https://www.matthewhajimichael.com/home
Institutional Page: https://dsps.ceu.edu/people/matthew-haji-michael
Strongly recommend that everyone interested in contemporary legal theory drop what they're doing and read this immediately - if current LLM models can genuinely approximate the formalist ideal so much more closely, this could have huge implications for contemporary jurisprudence
Posner & Saran on Decisions by AI and Federal Judges
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago - Law School) & Shivam Saran (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper replicates a judicial experiment…
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago - Law School) & Shivam Saran (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper replicates a judicial experiment…
Posner & Saran on Decisions by AI and Federal Judges
Eric A. Posner (University of Chicago - Law School) & Shivam Saran (University of Chicago - Law School) have posted Silicon Formalism: Rules, Standards, and Judge AI on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper replicates a judicial experiment originally conducted on 61 U.S. federal judges, this time with GPT-5 as the decision-maker. The experiment involves a choice-of-law dispute in a hypothetical automobile accident case, where three variables are manipulated: (1) whether the applicable doctrine is a rule or a standard, (2) whether the plaintiff or defendant is portrayed more sympathetically, and (3) the location of the accident, which affects the legal outcome under different states' choice-of-law rules.
legaltheoryblog.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Strongly recommend that everyone interested in contemporary legal theory drop what they're doing and read this immediately - if current LLM models can genuinely approximate the formalist ideal so much more closely, this could have huge implications for contemporary jurisprudence
Reposted by Matthew Haji-Michael
Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
Reposted by Matthew Haji-Michael
There is, of course, no "Age of AI". There is, still, only a bubble of bullshit.
Its potential to leave us in the "Age of Post-AI Collapse" is quite real, but there remains no *constructive* way in which mindless word-juggling challenges real writing.
Its potential to leave us in the "Age of Post-AI Collapse" is quite real, but there remains no *constructive* way in which mindless word-juggling challenges real writing.
The Historian in the Age of AI | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
The Historian in the Age of AI
www.cambridge.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
There is, of course, no "Age of AI". There is, still, only a bubble of bullshit.
Its potential to leave us in the "Age of Post-AI Collapse" is quite real, but there remains no *constructive* way in which mindless word-juggling challenges real writing.
Its potential to leave us in the "Age of Post-AI Collapse" is quite real, but there remains no *constructive* way in which mindless word-juggling challenges real writing.
Shocking stuff - The UK's transformation into an intellectual wasteland sadly continues...
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.
Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
December 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Shocking stuff - The UK's transformation into an intellectual wasteland sadly continues...
Great essay - read whilst you can before AI exposure turns our creative faculties to mush!
This Sam Kriss essay on AI writing is brilliant
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Great essay - read whilst you can before AI exposure turns our creative faculties to mush!
I don't usually read many book reviews, but this one truly is excellent and well worth your time
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I don't usually read many book reviews, but this one truly is excellent and well worth your time
A very articulate and powerful article! Recommended reading for everyone, especially those engaged in the (particularly toxic) debate in the UK.
This piece was greenlit and then killed by a British newspaper, so I’ve decided to publish myself instead.
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better.
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com/pub/wellread...
Trans People Deserve Better
"Gender critical" feminism doesn't help women but it does help the far right
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
A very articulate and powerful article! Recommended reading for everyone, especially those engaged in the (particularly toxic) debate in the UK.
Absolutely excellent essay - highly recommended
I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...
Defining Away Palestine
voelkerrechtsblog.org
September 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Absolutely excellent essay - highly recommended
Very grateful to @maxim-v-asseldonk.bsky.social for organising this amazing workshop, which I had the pleasure of attending yesterday! A really wonderful day of talks and discussions.
Event announcement!
On Sep. 12th, @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social and me are organising a workshop on 'Radical democracy & the Rechtsstaat' at RU Nijmegen.
We're thrilled to have found @illanwall.bsky.social and Manon Westphal prepared to offer keynotes.
CfA now live: philevents.org/event/show/1...
On Sep. 12th, @mathijsvdsande.bsky.social and me are organising a workshop on 'Radical democracy & the Rechtsstaat' at RU Nijmegen.
We're thrilled to have found @illanwall.bsky.social and Manon Westphal prepared to offer keynotes.
CfA now live: philevents.org/event/show/1...
Login - PhilEvents
philevents.org
September 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Very grateful to @maxim-v-asseldonk.bsky.social for organising this amazing workshop, which I had the pleasure of attending yesterday! A really wonderful day of talks and discussions.
Reposted by Matthew Haji-Michael
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Reposted by Matthew Haji-Michael
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:04 PM
What an amazing document - absolutely essential reading for everyone
In her unparalleled new report, Francesca Albanese comprehensively indicts economic complicities with "the Israeli illegal settler-colonial enterprise in the occupied Palestinian territory, which now functions as
a genocidal machine."
You must read the whole report.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
a genocidal machine."
You must read the whole report.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
July 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM
What an amazing document - absolutely essential reading for everyone
Thrilled to be elected as chair of the POLEMO research group for 2025/26 - looking forward to a busy year of talks and events!
I'm very happy to announce that Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social and myself Peter Verpoorten @peterverpoorten.bsky.social have been elected as Research Group co-chairs for the coming academic year 2025-2026. We will do our utmost best to honor the trust placed in us going forward.
May 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Thrilled to be elected as chair of the POLEMO research group for 2025/26 - looking forward to a busy year of talks and events!
Just heard that Alasdair MacIntyre has sadly passed away - a brilliant and stimulating thinker whose like is rarely seen. A great summary of his life and work has already been published here: www.wordonfire.org/articles/rem...
Gus am bris an latha!
Gus am bris an latha!
Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre (1929-2025) - Word on Fire
What I do know is this. I have never met, nor do I ever expect to meet, a philosopher as fascinating as Alasdair MacIntyre.
www.wordonfire.org
May 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Just heard that Alasdair MacIntyre has sadly passed away - a brilliant and stimulating thinker whose like is rarely seen. A great summary of his life and work has already been published here: www.wordonfire.org/articles/rem...
Gus am bris an latha!
Gus am bris an latha!