Publications
Book Project
(*in German forthcoming, 2024; English translation expected for 2025)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles & US Law Reviews
The Role of Compute Thresholds for AI Governance (w/ Matteo Pistillo, Suzanne Van Arsdale & Lennart Heim)
George Washington Journal of Law & Technology (forthcoming, 2024)
Value Alignment for Advanced Artificial Judicial Intelligence (w/ Nick Hollman & David Manheim)
American Philosophical Quarterly (2023) 60(2), 187-204
Politics, Evolution and Cooperation: Peter Singer’s Darwinian Left (*in German)
Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung (2020) 74(3), 434–442
The Value of Behavioral Economics for EU Judicial Decision-Making
German Law Journal (2020) 21(2), 240–264
Book Chapters
Cross-Cultural Perceptions of Rights for Future Generations (w/ Eric Martínez)
in: Tobia (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Jurisprudence, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming, 2024)
The Intuitive Appeal of Legal Protection for Future Generations (w/ Eric Martínez)
in: Barrett/Thorstad/Greaves (eds.), Essays on Longtermism, Oxford University Press (forthcoming, 2024)
Experimental Longtermist Jurisprudence (w/ Eric Martínez)
in: Magen/Prochownik (eds.), Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Law, Bloomsbury Academic (2023), 241-268.
The Challenges of Artificial Judicial Decision-Making for Liberal Democracy
in: Bystranowski/Janik/Próchnicki (eds.), Judicial Decision-making: Integrating Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives (2022), 179-204.
Works in Progress & Working Papers
Interpreting Constitutional AI
The Governance Misspecification Problem
Automating the Judiciary (w/ Eric Martínez)
Misjudgment Exacerbates Collective Action Problems (w/ Joshua Lewis, Shalena Srna, Erin Morrissey, Matti Wilks & Lucius Caviola)
Protecting Future Generations: A Global Survey of Legal Academics (w/ Eric Martínez)
Towards a Dual-Process Theory of Criminalization
The Ordinary Meaning of Existential Risk (with Eric Martínez)
Policy Reports & Commentary
Open-Sourcing Highly Capable Foundation Models: An Evaluation of Risks, Benefits, and Alternative Methods for Pursuing Open-Source Objectives (w/ Elizabeth Seger et al.)
Centre for the Governance of AI (2023), 1-52.
Comment on Proposed Updates to U.S. Federal Benefit-Cost Analysis (w/ Suzanne Van Arsdale and Kevin Frazier)
Legal Priorities Project (2023), 1-10.
Research Agenda
Legal Priorities Research: A Research Agenda
Legal Priorities Project (2021), 1–179 (w/ Jonas Schuett, Eric Martínez, Suzanne Van Arsdale, Renan Araújo, Nick Hollman, Jeff Sebo, Andrew Stawasz, Cullen O’Keefe, Giuliana Rotola)
Shorter Publications and Blog Posts
In Dubio Pro Futura: A Novel Decision Rule to Preserve the Long-Term Interests of Humanity (w/ Christoph Bublitz)
Verfassungsblog (August 2022)
Is Legal Longtermism Common Sense? (with Eric Martínez)
Verfassungsblog (August 2022)
(w/ Eric Martínez), Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2021) 8, 1-7
Die Krise der Rechtswissenschaften vor dem Hintergrund von COVID-19, KI und Klimawandel
Prae|faktisch (May 2020)
Of Chicks and Men: Anmerkungen zum BVerwG-Urteil über die Tötung männlicher Küken (w/ Saskia Stucki)
Verfassungsblog (June 2019)
Operation Sophia Extended – Reason to Celebrate? (w/ Antonia Jülich)
Huffington Post, WorldPost (July 2017)
The Politics of Hunger (w/ Antonia Jülich)
Huffington Post, WorldPost (April 2017)
Benevolent Autocrats versus Malevolent Democracies – Assessing the Impact of Democracy on Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries (w/ Antonia Jülich)
The Journal of Human Rights and International Law 3, p. 4-7 (2015)