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As Artificial Intelligence is increasingly used by companies in their hiring processes, as well as other HR duties, Rick Bales looks into what consequences this may have on wider employment law, and for the individual worker.
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How can the edicts of a sovereign power—monarch, democratic assembly, or other institutional arrangements—succeed to engender obligations for a multitude of subjects, most of whom hardly know (let alone approve of) the contents of such edicts? Stefano Bertea investigates.
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William Shakespeare was born just thirty years after the founding of Cambridge University Press, yet it was another three hundred years before the Press started printing his works. Since then, we have published his plays continuously in various forms. In January, the Cambridge editions of Shakespeare’s complete works – and much more besides – will […]
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Why have medieval archaeologists failed to reflect critically on the sacred? The answer may lie in archaeology’s prevailing intellectual tradition, which promotes a humanist or secular position, even when we study the remains of religious buildings and landscapes. By privileging certain narratives – such as authenticity, economic value and ‘rational’ behaviour – archaeologists have not […]
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This book would probably not have been written if, as a postgraduate, I had not left Cambridge for my first job as assistant lecturer at the University of Geneva, and then, once I had met my (French) husband, settled in France. Living and working in three distinct, if overlapping, cultures (English, French, Swiss) and two, […]
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Randall Abate talks to us about his new book, Climate Change and the Voiceless, and how the law can protect those most vulnerable to the effects of Climate Change.
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Let’s start with a simple question. What is your book about? It’s on the question: What is politics? What defines the political sphere? How is politics different from economics, law, morality, religion, or warfare? Why do these questions matter? They underlie questions of democracy: What view of politics is conducive to a strong and just […]
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“Our nation is being torn apart; truth is questioned.” Dr. Fiona Hill, former official at the U.S. National Security Council, in testimony given to the congressional inquiry into presidential impeachment, November 21, 2019. Like many others, I’m disheartened by the escalating intolerance of worldviews other than one’s own. Reasoned arguments based on data have little […]
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