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Nicholas Caputo

Johns Hopkins University - Johns Hopkins University School of Government and Policy

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Washington, DC 20001

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http://aigi.ox.ac.uk/people/nicholas-caputo/

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Scholarly Papers (6)

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1.

Legal Alignment for Safe and Ethical AI

Princeton University Program in Law & Public Affairs Research Paper No. 2026-01
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Jan 2026
Noam Kolt, Nicholas Caputo, Jack Boeglin, Cullen O'Keefe, Rishi Bommasani, Stephen Casper, Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Noah Feldman, Iason Gabriel, Gillian K. Hadfield, Lewis Hammond, Peter Henderson, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Seth Lazar, Anka Reuel, Kevin Wei and Jonathan L. Zittrain
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Johns Hopkins University - Johns Hopkins University School of Government and Policy, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Institute for Law & AI, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Harvard Law School, Independent, University of Toronto, University of Oxford, Princeton University - Program in Law & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Australian National University (ANU), Stanford University, RAND Corporation and Harvard Law School
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Artificial Intelligence, AI Safety, AI Ethics, Legal Reasoning and Interpretation, Legal Theory, Legal Services, AI Evaluations and Benchmarks, Regulation and Governance, AI Agents, Agentic Systems, AGI, Superintelligence

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Alignment as Jurisprudence

27 Yale Journal of Law and Technology 390 (Sept. 2025)
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 09 May 2026
Nicholas Caputo
Johns Hopkins University - Johns Hopkins University School of Government and Policy
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Jurisprudence, legal theory, AI, alignment, law, computer science, Constitutional AI, Dworkin, Sunstein, RLHF, RLAIF

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Can Claude Consent to its own Constitution? AI Constitutionalism and the Paradox of Constituent Power

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 02 Jul 2026 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2026
Nicholas Caputo
Johns Hopkins University - Johns Hopkins University School of Government and Policy
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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Law, Constitutional Law, Legal Theory, Constitutional Theory, Jurisprudence, Alignment, Law and AI, Cyberlaw, Frontier AI, Constitutional AI

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Administrative Law's Fourth Settlement: AI and the Capability-Accountability Trap

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 10 Jan 2026 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2026
Nicholas Caputo
Johns Hopkins University - Johns Hopkins University School of Government and Policy
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Technology, Law, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Administrative Law, Legal History, Law and Technology, Public Administration

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'Quiet' Enjoyment: Uncovering the Hidden History of the Right to Attention in Private and Public

28 Stanford Technology Law Review 120 (Jul. 2025)
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 05 May 2025 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2025
Nicholas Caputo
Johns Hopkins University - Johns Hopkins University School of Government and Policy
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law, legal history, technology law, cyberlaw, artificial intelligence, property law, constitutional law

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(When) Should We Delegate AI Governance to AIs? Some Lessons from Administrative Law

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 May 2026
Nicholas Caputo
Johns Hopkins University - Johns Hopkins University School of Government and Policy
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AI, Administrative Law, Alignment, Artificial Intelligence, Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw, Law and AI