Introduction If conservative political pundits are to be believed, “fake news” is a new social media-based phenomenon that threatens our global democracies. Chief among such proponents is current US President Donald Trump, who even claims to have coined the term. While this evidently goes a step too far—whether misrepresenting the turnout for his January 2017 […] The post Restarting the Past: Fake News in the Digital Age first appeared on The Digital Constitutionalist.| The Digital Constitutionalist
The United States is not unfamiliar with the idea that a bunch of dead white men might inform the meaning and interpretation of the Constitution. Originalism is the very idea that constitutional meaning is derived from ‘the intentions of those who draft and debated the Constitution’. In a speculative turn that competes with the literary […] The post What Would the Founding Fathers Say? Digital Ghosts and Constituent Power first appeared on The Digital Constitutionalist.| The Digital Constitutionalist
The author would like to thank prof. dr. Natali Helberger for her helpful commentary on this blog post. Introduction The legal system can be a fortress. While anyone can freely read their country’s laws, much more is needed to grasp the complexity of the legal system. Lawyers train for years to gain the skills to […] The post Access to Justice and LLMs first appeared on The Digital Constitutionalist.| The Digital Constitutionalist