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Jaakko Husa

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Professor. Comparative law/legal languages/legal history/constitutional studies/law & globalisation. Academic "humour". Posts indicate satire, perplexity or whatever. Opinions are my own, unfortunately. https://ssrn.com/author=933550 .. more

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 5h

Err, what? 😂

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 11h

Perhaps it's just me but this makes me wait for Nazgûls to appear...

Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 12h

Beyond Vienna. -- The "Wittgenstein-Path" in Trattenbach. He used to walk up here to lunch. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria #philosophy

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Martin Kusch @martinkusch.bsky.social · 12h

Beyond Vienna. -- The "Wittgenstein-Path" in Trattenbach. He used to walk up here to lunch. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria #philosophy

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 19h

Why I used AI explained by AI. You can't make this shit up. 😂😂😂

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.

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Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

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Reposted by Steve Peers, Jaakko Husa, Brooke Harrington , and 1 more Steve Peers, Jaakko Husa, Brooke Harrington, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.

🔗 www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

www.404media.co

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 1d

Almost all of my teaching takes place in our Global Governance Law Masters programme (Helsinki). Among other things, I teach global/transnational law. Regardless, I find Twining's questions relevant...

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 1d

Twining on "Globababble"

we already have ‘global law schools’ (teaching the laws of every state legal system and Islamic law?); global law firms (serving many, most, all countries?); global lawyers (what do they know? How many are there? Whom do they serve?) and Global Law degrees (studying what?)

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday I saw "One Battle After Another". There's only one true star in the film and it's the Lockjaw walk performed by Sean Penn.

It's a great combo of old Marine gunny and Popeye.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing that I wanted to hear...

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d

"I had a colonial childhood, an anti-colonial
adolescence, a neo-colonial start to my career and a post-colonial middle age"

- William Twining, Jurist in Context: A Memoir (CUP 2019) 8.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d

One of my comparative law heroes, William Twining, has passed on 9 October. I have always find his ideas interesting, challenging, and inspiring. RIP Professor.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d

He was refreshingly radical thinker. Many of his key ideas were greatly ahead of their time.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d

Don't give up if publisher number 5 says no.

Reposted by Richard Moorhead

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 2d

One of my comparative law heroes, William Twining, has passed on 9 October. I have always find his ideas interesting, challenging, and inspiring. RIP Professor.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 4d

To contribute or not to contribute, that is the question. And I agree, quality varies.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 4d

We know the philosophical question "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" But are you aware of another question on the existence of a professor?

"If a senior professor does not get a Festschrift do they even exist?"

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 4d

I am not a person who has "heroes". Regardless, Jane Goodall was a hero to me.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted to see that the Norwegian Nobel Committee makes decisions independently and on the basis of merit.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 5d

Meanwhile on the other side of social media, people who call themselves Christian are angry because the Pope is preaching Christianity.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d

Me after making a travel expense claim in the weird system used by the Norwegian universities (which they force also externals to use).

a man wearing a hat is looking at a laptop .

Alt: angry and shocked man closes his laptop aggressively

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Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d

I have been reading and marking essays the whole morning. To my surprise, essays were really good. A bit of a relief, I admit.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d

True but I was thinking their practical modus operandi; how they behave in what they do.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 6d

Can you tell Sturmabteilung, the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, and ICE apart? Is there a principal difference?

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7d

Those legal scholars who specialise in comparative law know how does it feel to be the least favorite child. Law schools make sure that we feel that.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 7d

Colour me surprised, vultures as historical preservationists.
www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.

www.nationalgeographic.com

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 8d

😍

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 8d

So, instead of Santas they are doing Priests.

Great. Simply great.

Or something.

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 8d

Paul, cats have slaves not servants 😃

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 9d

Yep!

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 9d

What I have learned about Yorkshire terriers is this: they do not have owners, they have servants.

Small Yorkie looks at you directly, wanting something

Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 9d

Interesting job 👇

Blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History @esclh.bsky.social · 9d

CALL FOR EDITOR: Journal Comparative Legal History [DEADLINE 31 OCT 2025]

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CALL FOR EDITOR: Journal Comparative Legal History [DEADLINE 31 OCT 2025]

Journal Comparative Legal History Call for Editor Deadline: 31 October 2025 The European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) is ...

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