Just in time for the Christmas, you can preorder the paperback edition of my book! It won’t arrive until after Christmas, which I know will disappoint many, but a printout of a preorder is often an even better stocking filler than a book. 20% off w/ code below, link in next tweet

An issue with this—people who work in legal areas or jurisdictions with more material in training data underestimate how much hallucination still happens in areas/juris that are more niche. Working in several niche areas, hallucination is rampant even with specialised models.

It was a privilege to take part in a @TriCONDublin seminar yesterday on "Peace, Justice, and Accountability in Ukraine" with Professors Svitlana Khyliuk and Olha Denkovych from Ukrainian Catholic University (alongside my colleague @dkennytcd).

What happens next if power sharing at Stormont collapses over Drumcree ?ria.ie/blog/what-happens-nex… This article originally appeared on ukandeu.ac.uk/ @UKandEU .

🎬Join us at 18:30! On Irish unity thanks to excellent guests @MarkHennessy, @BobbyMcDonagh1 & @dkennytcd. In Strasbourg we spoke to @lynnboylan & @SeanKellyMEP re SOTEU, and to @PTHosford for analysis on Ireland’s EU presidency, and our upcoming budget #OirTV

@dkennytcd & Conor Kelly reiterate/remind us of UCL Refs report on likely/probable evidence used by SoS in calling ref, but also the need to consult with Irish gov 1st, given ref has to occur here too. Also reiterating @PatLeahyIT - no evidence of maj support in NI for UI yet

What does justice look like in a world shaped by growing political division, global conflict, and increasing uncertainty? Join us on Thursday, June 18th, at 6.30 pm to explore the future of justice with our esteemed panel. Register now: eventbrite.ie/e/the-future-o…

Judgment is worth reading in full,& invites the question: given the verification burden that AI creates for senior lawyers—checking that things haven’t been wholly fabricated wasn’t common previously—does the technology, used responsibly, save any time and money in research?

An honour and a total pleasure to speak to the great @ShashiTharoor about constitutions, pluralism, civic nationalism, and much else in Belfast last weekend. I think we could have talked for hours! Thanks so much to @JLFLitfest Island of Ireland for making it happen.

A fabulous conversation yesterday with Prof David Kenny on a vital subject. Will post the video when @JLFLitfest gets around to issuing it! #JLFIslandOfIreland

In December, 2018, while visiting St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, David Kenny became hypnotized by an epitaph. Near the south door, he gazed up at a marble plaque bearing the epitaph for Jonathan Swift, the redoubtable novelist, poet, satirist, and former Dean of St. Patrick’s who died in 1745, and who was buried beneath the cathedral floor. The text of the monument was in Latin and stipulated by Swift himself, in his will. Translations vary, but the most enduring was published in 1933, by William Butler Yeats: SWIFT has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveller; he Served human liberty. Kenny had read Swift’s epitaph before, but on that day the lines caught him anew. “I had the strongest sense that there was something going on here that I couldn’t quite understand, and that wasn’t captured by Yeats,” Kenny told Ed Caesar. “The interpretive materials in the cathedral didn’t suggest the possibility of any other reading. The rousing, earnest interpretation taken up by Yeats was clearly the accepted understanding. But, to my ear, it was discordant. . . . Swift had never struck me as boastful. Something felt wrong.” After seven years of research, Kenny thinks he’s cracked Swift’s true meaning: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/CG…

A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s finally cracked it. newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Thrilled to have arrived in Dublin to speak on freedom of speech at @tcddublin (very soon). @AileenFKavanagh tcd.ie/law/news--events/2026…

A reminder to come to see Cass’ lecture on Campus Free Speech at Trinity tomorrow! Register at the link in his tweet!

So honored (and excited) to be speaking in Dublin TOMORROW - hope to see Irish friends there. @tcddublin @AileenFKavanagh @BeckettSociety tcd.ie/law/news--events/2026…

This is what I always wonder. If you verify properly, you don’t save much time (and have a worse understanding of the law on the matter you’re handling than if you’d done it yourself). If it’s saving lots of time, verification is not good enough and big mistakes will happen, no?

Have any legal practitioner friends in Ireland had courtroom encounters (criminal or civil) with people using the methods of the Freemen on the Land? Would love to chat quickly at some stage if so.