Brian Flanagan
@BrianFl38315947
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"Pesky academic" The Guardian; "Plainly wrong" High Court of Ireland. School of Law, Maynooth University. Philosophy, law-and-courts.
Joined September 2020
Want to know why legislating is like forgiving? And why policy preferences are of secondary importance? Check out my new paper in the American Journal of Jurisprudence - Collective Mental Action: Turning Texts into Statutes (open access) https://t.co/5hovCY29m2
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Abstract. How exactly do we know that a text is a law? This paper argues that purely legalistic explanations are inadequate because they do not explain why
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New preprint: we study how later courts cite U.S. Supreme Court cases with discursive dilemmas. Precedent tracks member judges’ positions—not an autonomous group agent: https://t.co/hGYiOKTpAc Njogu Mbau, Daniel Chen, and Kenneth Silver. #GroupAgency
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‘I looked for you on the Trident’ Ned said. ‘Yeah, sorry, I was on foreign language watch or something’
Arabic, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Vietnamese interpreters all required within 15mins of Cloverhill District Court sitting this morning.
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Evidence that Hart was wrong in distinguishing the rule of recognition from the rule of change.
Parliamentary accidents happen! Here’s one for the law and procedure nerds: the time in 1844 that a bill received royal assent after passing only one House of Parliament... /1
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Strikingly, we found no legitimacy penalty for AI assistance. Hypotheticals featuring courts guided by computer-generated legal research were viewed as just as legitimate as those relying on human staff. Guilherme Almeida, Daniel Chen, Angela Gitahi.
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Evidence of Public Acceptance of AI Law Clerks: We investigated how Kenyans evaluate the legitimacy of court decisions when judges rely on AI-generated legal research—versus that of human law clerks. https://t.co/w6cSPrxaDq 1/
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With AI now passing the bar, and with increasing court caseloads worldwide hampering access to justice, there are calls for judges to make use of chatbots to help expedite their work. Such calls po...
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Some fascinating qualitative research here on U.K. judges’ attitudes to incorporating AI tools into their work. @BrianFl38315947
https://t.co/XPD9YmbtkX
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The founder of the Capuchin Day Centre in Dublin Brother Kevin Crowley has died aged 90 https://t.co/g7wNTT4nw7
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President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to Brother Kevin Crowley, the founder of the Capuchin Day Centre in Dublin, who died aged 90.
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How military justice backfired on the British military after the Easter Rising: Irish desertion on the Western Front By Brian Flanagan https://t.co/BBVchdAjrQ
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British military justice backfired in the case of Irish ‘Tommies’ By Brian Flanagan School history teaches that World War I’s causes were complex: Nationalism, Militarism, Imperial ambition and...
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There was a time when the death penalty actually made people more likely to offend—at least if they were Irish; ht Daniel Chen. See my piece in Village: https://t.co/ZCIhuKGDrx
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British military justice backfired in the case of Irish ‘Tommies’ By Brian Flanagan School history teaches that World War I’s causes were complex: Nationalism, Militarism, Imperial ambition and...
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Check out the first qualitative study of judges’ views on AI in law: https://t.co/VhmT28Wb2M Our focus groups featured a cross-section of 12 UK judges, including 5 members of the UK Supreme Court. Co-authored with Erin Solovey and Daniel Chen.
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I love that there is now a beautiful review of the field of Experimental Jurisprudence in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Experimental Jurisprudence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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Can AI be a ‘legal author’? @BojanSpaic and I had a blast exploring this seemly unattended question in contemporary debate (ft. authority, interpretation, intention, GenAI, creation & generation, Monty Python, Star Trek, S Lem, R Barthes, cats & more) 👉 https://t.co/jgBTGMacD1
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The well-fed philosopher's exclusionary reason: "Once at the restaurant it is better not to tailor your choices from the menu according to price, for to do so is to miss out on the spirit of the evening" in The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law 2002.
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Among the grants cancelled at Harvard, -study with 116,000 women going back to 1989 looking for the causes of breast cancer -similar study of men going back to 1986 -7 year project on the evolution of cancer -study on reversing ASL symptoms -project to reverse aging in mice
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As reported in the Irish Times this morning, our response to judicial critics of our Wikipedia research:
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Our paper, 'Trait empathy predicts a preference for the spirit of the law' is published today in the Journal of Research in Personality. The greater one's personal empathy, the greater one's tendency to prioritise a rule's purpose over its text.
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Many thanks for the 'Highly Recommended' Larry! @lsolum
Flanagan on Collective Mental Action and Statutes, https://t.co/uup1n3T8Te - Brian Flanagan has posted Collective Mental Action: Turning Texts into Statutes on the American Journal of Jurisprudence website.
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Excellent session - the discussion of the principle of legality in UK law was a particular highlight.
Great discussion last night on the UK and Irish constitutions with Lord Sales @UKSupremeCourt, Chief Justice Donal O’Donnell & Mr Justice Gerard Hogan of the Irish Supreme Court & Prof @AileenFKavanagh @TriCONDublin @TCDLawSchool co-hosted by @TCLRDublin & @TCDLawSoc
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