Two regulatory constitutions in the making In the spring of 2025, Washington and Brussels found themselves engaged in a rare act of near-simultaneous legislative ambition. On 29 May 2025, bipartisan leaders in the United States Congress introduced the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025 (the "CLARITY Act"), a sweeping piece of legislation designed to end years of jurisdictional warfare between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading

In February 2026, a single product announcement wiped approximately three hundred billion dollars off the combined market capitalization of Thomson Reuters, RELX (the parent company of LexisNexis), and LegalZoom — in under forty-eight hours. The investment bank Jefferies coined a phrase for the event: the SaaSpocalypse. The Catalyst of Change in Legal Technology What happened? Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI laboratories, launched a legal plugin directly inside its C

L'arrivée de l'IA agentique L’intelligence artificielle générative n’est plus une simple promesse de productivité ; elle est devenue le moteur silencieux de nos infrastructures professionnelles. En 2026, alors que la poussière retombe à peine après les séismes technologiques du mois dernier, un constat s'impose : la question n’est plus de savoir s’il faut utiliser l’IA, mais si vous l’utilisez de manière compétente et responsable. Pour l'avocat, le financier ou le gestionnair

How copy-paste lawyering makes the case for agentic AI — and what the EU AI Act says about the replacement By Erwin Sotiri | Jurisconsul | March 2026 How copy-paste lawyering makes the case for agentic AI The illusion of productivity Something peculiar is happening inside law offices across Europe and North America. A generation of junior and mid-level lawyers, equipped with large language model subscriptions, has adopted a workflow that looks efficient on the surface but

The proposed 28th regime is framed as a structural response to fragmentation in the internal market. Its ambition is clear: offer an optional European legal framework that allows innovative companies — particularly in technology, fintech and digital assets — to scale across borders without navigating 27 separate systems.From the perspective of innovators, the promise is simplicity and speed.From the perspective of regulators, the objective is harmonisation and legal certainty

I came up with the expression “Agentic law” that could be framed as a proposed legal field focused on regulating the behaviour of AI agents as operational actors in digital and physical environments, rather than regulating human behaviour mediated by AI. In practical terms, it targets systems capable of initiating actions (for explicit or implicit objectives), adapting post-deployment, interacting with other systems, and affecting outcomes without step-by-step human direction