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Matthew Haji-Michael

@theruleoflawguy.bsky.social
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Political theory PhD student working on all things Rule of Law. Based in Vienna at CEU (@weareceu.bsky.social) Website: www.matthewhajimichael.com/home Institutional Page: dsps.ceu.edu/people/matthew-haji-mi…

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 09/10/2026
"Humans have, in a real sense, always been cyborgs. From vaccines to psychiatric drugs to Fukuyama’s glasses, we fashion the tools that allow us to climb above the tuchē that threatens to limit us." www.liberalcurrents.com/fukuyamas-gl...
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Fukuyama's Glasses
Like the man himself, Francis Fukuyama's new memoir "In the Realm of the Last Man" combines startling insight and baffling contradiction.
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Beyond the amusing headline I'd seriously recommend checking this essay out - it's an excellent piece of analysis
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A wonderful essay on the future of the humanities - recommended reading for all! www.the-hinternet.com/p/a-third-wa...
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A Third Way for the Humanities
A Declaration
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
This is indeed really good!
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Loved this!
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This was great! Thanks for sharing.
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
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‘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
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Thanks for this essay! Really really helpful.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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.
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The Historian in the Age of AI | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
The Historian in the Age of AI
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Looks great! Very excited to read it when it's out next year!
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Shocking stuff - The UK's transformation into an intellectual wasteland sadly continues...
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Great essay - read whilst you can before AI exposure turns our creative faculties to mush!
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I don't usually read many book reviews, but this one truly is excellent and well worth your time
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A very articulate and powerful article! Recommended reading for everyone, especially those engaged in the (particularly toxic) debate in the UK.
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Absolutely excellent essay - highly recommended
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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.
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Looks great! Kicking myself for missing the call for applications earlier in the year!!
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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...
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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.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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
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AGAINST AI
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thanks for sharing this!! Will definitely try to integrate some of these into my own teaching this coming year!
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
We cut live to the University of Chicago economics department: m.youtube.com/watch?v=R1x4...
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The Age of Men is over. The Time of the Orc has come.
YouTube video by QuoteTheGuy
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Absolutely fascinating work, especially the points about the varying success rate for specific public bodies and individual judges. Looking forward to reading the larger study when it comes out!
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
What an amazing document - absolutely essential reading for everyone
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A really insightful review, thanks for sharing - I'm probably more sympathetic in temperament to Schuringa’s position, but the points you make here were enough to make me think twice.
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Perhaps this one by Møller and Skaaning? It's got the same title and goes (somewhat) into the history. link.springer.com/book/10.1057...
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The Rule of Law
Through critical analysis of key concepts and measures of the rule of law, this book shows that the choice of definitions and measures affects descriptive and explanatory findings about nomocracy. It ...
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Thrilled to be elected as chair of the POLEMO research group for 2025/26 - looking forward to a busy year of talks and events!
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Matthew Haji-Michael @theruleoflawguy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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!
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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.
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