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JUS | Vienna Lecture Series on Comparative Constitutional Law & Theory
Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2025, 18:30 Termin in Kalender eintragen
Date: 10.12.2025, 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Room L619, 6th floor | Faculty of Law | Sigmund Freud University | Lassallestraße 3, 1020 Vienna
Mirac Suzgun,
Stanford University (USA)
Contemporary U.S. Supreme Court practice confronts unprecedented outside advocacy, with nearly 2,000 amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) briefs filed annually. Comprehensive analysis spanning over a century reveals systematic patterns: a small oligopoly of repeat-player organizations dominates participation, forming stable coalitions that align or oppose each other with remarkable consistency across cases. Business-conservative, civil-rights-progressive, government, and libertarian blocs supply untested empirical assertions on contentious policy questions—abortion’s effects, educational outcomes, regulatory costs—that embed contested premises into constitutional doctrine. The findings illuminate structural risks to judicial fact-finding and propose calibrated reforms balancing access with reliability safeguards for high-stakes adjudication.
Please register until 10.12.2025: konrad.lachmayer@jus.sfu.ac.at
Mirac Suzgun
Mirac Suzgun is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Stanford University, co-advised by Professors Dan Jurafsky and James Zou, and a J.D. candidate at Stanford Law School. His research examines the capabilities and limitations of modern language models, focusing on reasoning, hallucination detection and mitigation, and societal applications. He also conducts legal scholarship on constitutional law, administrative law, and AI governance and regulatory policy, and works closely with Professor Daniel E. Ho at the Stanford RegLab. He graduated from Harvard College with a joint degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and a secondary field in Folklore & Mythology, receiving the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for his undergraduate thesis. His work has appeared in leading venues including Nature Machine Intelligence, The Lancet Digital Health, Journal of Legal Analysis, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, and NeurIPS. He has worked at Google Brain, Microsoft Research, Meta’s GenAI/Llama team, and OpenEvidence, and has served as a legal intern at the Administrative Conference of the United States and as a litigation summer associate at WilmerHale. His graduate studies have been supported by the Google Ph.D. Fellowship, Stanford HAI-SAP Fellowship, and Stanford Law School Fellowship.
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The Vienna Lecture Series on Comparative Constitutional Law and Theory is organised by:
- Prof. Markus Böckenförde, Central European University
- Prof. Iris Eisenberger, University of Vienna
- Prof. András Jakab, University of Salzburg
- Prof. Konrad Lachmayer, Sigmund Freud University „
More about Vienna Lecture Series on Comparative Constitutional Law & Theory:
https://www.constitutionaltheory.eu/
Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna
Faculty of Law
Address Lassallestrasse 3, 6th floor, 1020 Vienna
Phone 0043 1 4700 104
E-mail jus@sfu.ac.at
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