Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz

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Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Law and Policy at the Marine & Environmental Law Institute, Dalhousie University. He holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Hamburg and an LLM from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. His research focuses on the law of the sea, international environmental law, and the history of international law.

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Magnifica Humanitas and the International Legal Technocratic Imagination

Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is not a source of international law. It creates no treaty obligations, modifies no customary rules, and settles no legal status for artificial intelligence. However, its relevance lies not only in the fact that it exposes a difficulty that international AI governance has not fully confronted, but also in the…

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