Eoin O'Dell

Art Detectives, Vermeer forgeries, and the slaveship Zong cearta.ie/2025/11/art-de… My new blogpost, featuring inter alia @blackdog_tv @PGPowell @elmaorkestra @AndrewGrahamDix @BurnardTrevor @KatieDonington @dmchristmas @ttarvind @mnourbese @LauraSRobinson and lots of movies

Signal is now warning that it could exit Canada over Bill C-22. The government has called Signal, Apple, Meta, US Congress, and cybersecurity experts all wrong. But this isn't a bluff. Canadians will lose access to secure services if the bill passes as is. michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/bill-c…

The busier I am offline, the less I use social media. But the less I use social media, the less reach my posts get, because the algorithm rewards constant activity.

Call for Papers: 2027 ESIL Research Forum dlvr.it/TSXHNt

WIPO survey: Sequence search for PATENTSCOPE ift.tt/h2NH4Lc

As the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive deadline has passed, ECPMF renews its call for urgent transposition. The European Anti-SLAPP Monitor shows a fragmented picture across Europe, with nearly all Member States missing the deadline. ecpmf.eu/as-deadline-pa…

AI is moving quickly into politics, government, and democratic life. A new volume, "Artificial Intelligence, Politics, and Political Science," co-edited by Stanford Law Professor Nathaniel Persily, JD ’98, examines what that means for the future. brnw.ch/21x2hck

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me! As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest". Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far. Together we are One.

Irish Family Planning Association v Ryan [1979] IR 295 (27 July 1978) and the Censorship of Publications Acts – the judgments (HC: Hamilton J; SC: O'Higgins CJ & Kenny J) cearta.ie/2026/05/irish-… My new blogpost in my expanding series on the Irish Censorship of Publications Acts

Irish Family Planning Association v Ryan and the Censorship of Publications Acts – the judgments cearta.ie/2026/05/irish-… My new blogpost in my expanding series on the Irish Censorship of Publications Act

Seeing people with copies of my book is such a wonderful thing! Thank you to everyone who has picked up a copy. I hope you like it.

Here's is the draft Guidelines on Privacy and Data Protection in the context of LLM-based systems: lnkd.in/eHhNrtqr.

Italian transposition of press publishers’ right may be compatible with EU law, though with caveats, says Grand Chamber ift.tt/YmStnz1

Would strongly encourage applicants from RoI Universities to consider the fully funded PhD @cfpjustice based @UlsterUni & funded by @ahrcpress covering range of areas incl access to justice, social security, digital humanities, migration & asylum ... ➡️ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcolleg…

Grading.

The CJEU on heritage washing in trade mark law ift.tt/1IdkYEo

Irish Family Planning Association v Ryan and the Censorship of Publications Acts – some background cearta.ie/2026/05/irish-… The third post in my series on the Censorship of Publications Acts

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