E-personhood is a term proposed in a draft report by the EU Parliament, about civil rules and laws on Robotics. This legal status aims at ensuring rights and responsibilities for the most capable AI agents. An intense debate about its usefulness is taking place in the EU.
Unrest still reigns in Venezuela and a major question remains unanswered: who is the President at the moment, Maduro or Guaidó? Despite the political aspirations of Guaidó and recognitions to that effect by several States, this blogpost will determine that, legally speaking, Maduro is still the...
A comparative analysis between the major patent systems shows that the number of claims in a patent is influenced by the fee structure: additional fees per claim lower the number of claims considerably as compared to a flat fee.
Nowadays, the idea of granting robots legal personhood is considered as a serious political option: Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to the robot Sophia, certain national legislators are drafting legislation on legal personhood for robots and the European Parliament requested that the Commission...
Refugee crisis and migration may obviously have a lot of different sources. The current refugee crisis in Europe is obviously strongly related to the war in Syria. However, quite often migration and hence a stream of refugees, can also be caused by natural disasters, even by climate change. Some...
The decoding of higher order cognition directly from recordings of neural activity in the brain could enable a new generation of prosthetic devices.
An Experience Day allows you to experience what it is like to be a European Studies student. You will attend a lecture and participate in a tutorial group.
An Experience Day allows you to experience what it is like to be a European Studies student. You will attend a lecture and participate in a tutorial group.
Studium Generale - Schuman Lecture
Prof. Aleida Assmann, Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of Konstanz
Studium Generale | Tans Lecture 2019
Bettina Stangneth, Philosopher, Historian and Writer