(Jan) Christoph Bublitz
@jcbublitz.bsky.social
Legal Scholar @UHH
Law & Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience
Human right to freedom of thought
PI of projects on neurotech, psychedelics & Virtual Reality
I use this space for posting papers and digital note taking
www.christophbublitz.de
Law & Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience
Human right to freedom of thought
PI of projects on neurotech, psychedelics & Virtual Reality
I use this space for posting papers and digital note taking
www.christophbublitz.de
🧠 New Volume on Freedom of Thought
A long time in the making, "The Law and Ethics of Freedom of Thought, Vol. 2: Cognitive Liberty, Mental Privacy, and International Law" has just been published.
10 chapters at the forefront of the international debate. A thread on each below.
A long time in the making, "The Law and Ethics of Freedom of Thought, Vol. 2: Cognitive Liberty, Mental Privacy, and International Law" has just been published.
10 chapters at the forefront of the international debate. A thread on each below.
February 8, 2026 at 8:08 PM
🧠 New Volume on Freedom of Thought
A long time in the making, "The Law and Ethics of Freedom of Thought, Vol. 2: Cognitive Liberty, Mental Privacy, and International Law" has just been published.
10 chapters at the forefront of the international debate. A thread on each below.
A long time in the making, "The Law and Ethics of Freedom of Thought, Vol. 2: Cognitive Liberty, Mental Privacy, and International Law" has just been published.
10 chapters at the forefront of the international debate. A thread on each below.
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We preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.
Our investigation suggests that the platform did not properly consider how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including children and vulnerable adults.
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Our investigation suggests that the platform did not properly consider how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including children and vulnerable adults.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:30 PM
We preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act for its addictive design.
Our investigation suggests that the platform did not properly consider how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including children and vulnerable adults.
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Our investigation suggests that the platform did not properly consider how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including children and vulnerable adults.
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Keynote by the Spanish Prime Minister about "5 measures to turn social media healthy" yesterday: Announcing that Spain will introduce new criminal offences next week, holding exceutives accountable for amplifying or not-taking down illegitimate content.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcX
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcX
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Keynote by the Spanish Prime Minister about "5 measures to turn social media healthy" yesterday: Announcing that Spain will introduce new criminal offences next week, holding exceutives accountable for amplifying or not-taking down illegitimate content.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcX
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcX
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The 21st century version of William Gibson’s “meat puppet” has arrived: rentahuman.ai
RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks
The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.
rentahuman.ai
February 5, 2026 at 3:11 PM
The 21st century version of William Gibson’s “meat puppet” has arrived: rentahuman.ai
"The cases that should exist" - great take on AI and the law with a Dworkinian twist (and yes, probably LLMs don't work that way).
February 5, 2026 at 11:19 AM
"The cases that should exist" - great take on AI and the law with a Dworkinian twist (and yes, probably LLMs don't work that way).
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We are pleased to announce the winner of The Charles Mills Prize "Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration & the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data”
Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl
#philsky
Read it here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl
#philsky
Read it here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical‐Epistemic Issues in German Migration and the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data
In European countries (excluding the UK and Ireland), official statistics do not use racial or ethnic categories, but instead rely on proxies to collect data about discrimination. In the German micro...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
We are pleased to announce the winner of The Charles Mills Prize "Who Counts in Official Statistics? Ethical-Epistemic Issues in German Migration & the Collection of Racial or Ethnic Data”
Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl
#philsky
Read it here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Daniel James, Morgan Thompson & Tereza Hendl
#philsky
Read it here 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Im Gedenken an Bernhard Waldenfels (1934-2026) 🖤
Ein (nicht nur persönlicher) Nachruf👇auf meinen wichtigsten Lehrer🙏
Ein (nicht nur persönlicher) Nachruf👇auf meinen wichtigsten Lehrer🙏
January 26, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Im Gedenken an Bernhard Waldenfels (1934-2026) 🖤
Ein (nicht nur persönlicher) Nachruf👇auf meinen wichtigsten Lehrer🙏
Ein (nicht nur persönlicher) Nachruf👇auf meinen wichtigsten Lehrer🙏
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here is a moving documentary from 1969 about a survivor, and his experimental psychiatric treatment with LSD in the Netherlands.
Now Do You Get It Why I'm Crying? by Louis van Gasteren.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4R...
Now Do You Get It Why I'm Crying? by Louis van Gasteren.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4R...
Now Do You Get It - 1969
YouTube video by Res Earch
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here is a moving documentary from 1969 about a survivor, and his experimental psychiatric treatment with LSD in the Netherlands.
Now Do You Get It Why I'm Crying? by Louis van Gasteren.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4R...
Now Do You Get It Why I'm Crying? by Louis van Gasteren.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq4R...
Berlin: 28.1. Trip auf Rezept? Zur Zukunft Psychedelika-assistierter Therapie.
Öffentliche Veranstaltung unseres Forschungsprojekts PSYCHEDELSI zu allerlei, auch nicht-medizinischen Themen.
psychedelsi.org
18 Uhr, Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité.
Come along!
Öffentliche Veranstaltung unseres Forschungsprojekts PSYCHEDELSI zu allerlei, auch nicht-medizinischen Themen.
psychedelsi.org
18 Uhr, Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité.
Come along!
January 20, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Berlin: 28.1. Trip auf Rezept? Zur Zukunft Psychedelika-assistierter Therapie.
Öffentliche Veranstaltung unseres Forschungsprojekts PSYCHEDELSI zu allerlei, auch nicht-medizinischen Themen.
psychedelsi.org
18 Uhr, Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité.
Come along!
Öffentliche Veranstaltung unseres Forschungsprojekts PSYCHEDELSI zu allerlei, auch nicht-medizinischen Themen.
psychedelsi.org
18 Uhr, Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité.
Come along!
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects Of the Opioid Epidemic
Abstract. In this paper, we establish a causal connection between two of the most salient social developments in the United States over the past decades: t
doi.org
December 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I guess this does lead to a shift in the hermeneutical horizon of medical and neuro ethics...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
www.newyorker.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I guess this does lead to a shift in the hermeneutical horizon of medical and neuro ethics...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Berlin: Morgen spricht der israel. Psychiater Roy Salomon über Traumaerfahrungen unter Psychedelika durch das Massaker am 07. Oktober auf dem Nova Festival. Um 16:00 an der Charité Mitte, Nervenklinik,Saal 24
salomonlab.org/video/
salomonlab.org/video/
Videos - Salomon Lab
“How does experiencing psychedelics during a terrorist attack impact trauma?” An episode from “The Brain Sister podcast” Virtual Tour at Slab Dr. Salomon’s Interview to the RockYourLab Podcast (In Eng...
salomonlab.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Berlin: Morgen spricht der israel. Psychiater Roy Salomon über Traumaerfahrungen unter Psychedelika durch das Massaker am 07. Oktober auf dem Nova Festival. Um 16:00 an der Charité Mitte, Nervenklinik,Saal 24
salomonlab.org/video/
salomonlab.org/video/
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An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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Wie versteck man sich vor #biometrischer und #thermaler erkennenung.
Dieses Tanz-Video zeigt sehr kreativ welche Kleidung nötig ist. Weite Kleidung verhindert die Silhouetten Erkennung, weite Kleidung verzerrt bis zu einem gewissen Maß die thermale Erkennung. Große Hüte und "Deko" im Gesicht
Dieses Tanz-Video zeigt sehr kreativ welche Kleidung nötig ist. Weite Kleidung verhindert die Silhouetten Erkennung, weite Kleidung verzerrt bis zu einem gewissen Maß die thermale Erkennung. Große Hüte und "Deko" im Gesicht
Saffron and Smoke | Surreal AI Dance Video 4K
YouTube video by Kelly Boesch AI Art
youtu.be
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Wie versteck man sich vor #biometrischer und #thermaler erkennenung.
Dieses Tanz-Video zeigt sehr kreativ welche Kleidung nötig ist. Weite Kleidung verhindert die Silhouetten Erkennung, weite Kleidung verzerrt bis zu einem gewissen Maß die thermale Erkennung. Große Hüte und "Deko" im Gesicht
Dieses Tanz-Video zeigt sehr kreativ welche Kleidung nötig ist. Weite Kleidung verhindert die Silhouetten Erkennung, weite Kleidung verzerrt bis zu einem gewissen Maß die thermale Erkennung. Große Hüte und "Deko" im Gesicht
Given the ongoing debates about social media regulation, allow me to do as the big guys and briefly steal your attention to point to my new paper on the human right to freedom of thought, operationalized for digital technologies, especially social media. It makes two central points.
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Given the ongoing debates about social media regulation, allow me to do as the big guys and briefly steal your attention to point to my new paper on the human right to freedom of thought, operationalized for digital technologies, especially social media. It makes two central points.
Reposted by (Jan) Christoph Bublitz
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health
British fertility clinics raise scientific and ethical objections over patients sending embryos’ genetic data abroad for analysis
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Zur UNESCO Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie findet gleich eine Veranstaltung der Deutschen UNESCO Kommisison statt, mit Impulsvortrag von mir. Bei Interesse:
www.unesco.de/aktuelles/di...
www.unesco.de/aktuelles/di...
Die neue UNESCO-Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie – Wo steht Deutschland?
Am 5. November 2025 haben die UNESCO-Mitgliedstaaten eine neue völkerrechtliche Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie
www.unesco.de
December 4, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Zur UNESCO Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie findet gleich eine Veranstaltung der Deutschen UNESCO Kommisison statt, mit Impulsvortrag von mir. Bei Interesse:
www.unesco.de/aktuelles/di...
www.unesco.de/aktuelles/di...
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Wenn man kritisch über die AfD schreibt, bekommt man postwendend Todesdrohungen von ihren Anhängern. Gerade wieder passiert. Die AfD ist einfach eine gefährliche Nazi-Partei. Ich lasse mich nicht einschüchtern.
netzpolitik.org/2025/verbots...
netzpolitik.org/2025/verbots...
Verbotszone in Gießen: „Fatales Zeichen, wenn Protest verhindert werden soll“
Die Stadt Gießen hat mehrere Gegendemos in der Nähe der Gründungsveranstaltung der rechtsradikalen AfD-Jugend verboten. Die Anmelder wehren sich dagegen vor dem Verwaltungsgericht und kritisieren mass...
netzpolitik.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Wenn man kritisch über die AfD schreibt, bekommt man postwendend Todesdrohungen von ihren Anhängern. Gerade wieder passiert. Die AfD ist einfach eine gefährliche Nazi-Partei. Ich lasse mich nicht einschüchtern.
netzpolitik.org/2025/verbots...
netzpolitik.org/2025/verbots...
Ein paar Sätze hier:
background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisier...
background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisier...
Überwachung der Gehinaktivität: Unesco-Leitlinien zur ethischen Nutzung von Neurotechnologien
Fast alle Staaten dieser Welt haben sich in der Unesco auf Leitlinien zum ethischen Einsatz von Neurotechnologien geeinigt. Damit wird ein globaler Standard gesetzt, auf dem nationale Maßnahmen aufbau...
background.tagesspiegel.de
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Ein paar Sätze hier:
background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisier...
background.tagesspiegel.de/digitalisier...
Ein Satz zur UNESCO-Empfehlung zu Neurotech
Forschung aktuell | Schutz von Gehirndaten: UNESCO-Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...
Forschung aktuell | Schutz von Gehirndaten: UNESCO-Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...
Schutz von Gehirndaten: UNESCO-Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie
share.deutschlandradio.de
November 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Ein Satz zur UNESCO-Empfehlung zu Neurotech
Forschung aktuell | Schutz von Gehirndaten: UNESCO-Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...
Forschung aktuell | Schutz von Gehirndaten: UNESCO-Empfehlung zur Ethik der Neurotechnologie share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe...
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Bublitz on Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning, buff.ly/49fp3Ti - Christoph Bublitz (Universität Hamburg) has posted Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning A View from German Criminal Law on SSRN.
Bublitz on Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning
Christoph Bublitz (Universität Hamburg) has posted Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning A View from German Criminal Law on SSRN. Here is the abstract: How may experimental jurisprudence…
buff.ly
September 24, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Bublitz on Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning, buff.ly/49fp3Ti - Christoph Bublitz (Universität Hamburg) has posted Experimental Jurisprudence and Doctrinal Reasoning A View from German Criminal Law on SSRN.
Letzten Montag bei der DFG: www.deutschlandfunk.de/neurotechnol...
Neurotechnologien: Wo droht Missbrauch durch Computer-Hirn-Schnittstellen und Co
www.deutschlandfunk.de
November 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Letzten Montag bei der DFG: www.deutschlandfunk.de/neurotechnol...
interesting study calling the effectivess of personalized advertisement in question
"only about 5% of the variance in personality can be
predicted from digital footprints, and personality‐tailored messages show negligible effects on behavior... When design and evaluation flaws are controlled, the combined end‐to‐end effectiveness of psychological targeting approaches zero."
predicted from digital footprints, and personality‐tailored messages show negligible effects on behavior... When design and evaluation flaws are controlled, the combined end‐to‐end effectiveness of psychological targeting approaches zero."
The (In)Effectiveness of Psychological Targeting: A Meta‐Analytic Review
The use of psychological targeting—employing machine learning to predict consumer personality from digital footprints and subsequently tailoring persuasive messages—has emerged as a controversial yet...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
interesting study calling the effectivess of personalized advertisement in question
💭 New paper on the ethics of changing minds through psychedelics, and some implications for psychedelic psychotherapy.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
October 31, 2025 at 3:29 PM
💭 New paper on the ethics of changing minds through psychedelics, and some implications for psychedelic psychotherapy.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....