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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.

News

EUI Up Front Nicolas Petit and Iva Nenadic

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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Events

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Video Spotlight

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

Big data, big money: parlare di problemi con Nicolas Petit e Iva Nenadić

The EUI PhD programme in Law

Department of Law

Villa Salviati

Pedestrian access: Via Bolognese 156 / Via Faentina 261
Car access: Via Salviati 3B

50139 Firenze (FI)

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