📢 On behalf of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, I'm delighted to announce that today marks the launch of our new @opiniojuris.bsky.social symposium:📢 *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*

Very much looking forward to discussing the Digital Divide in International Cyber Law in New York in October. #ILW25

Unfortunately a still relevant piece I wrote 17 (!) years after I wrote it on the invocation of the preemptive use of force doctrine in relation to Iran's uranium enrichment program.

Pre-print of a short new piece of mine on critical marine infrastructure (CMI) is up! I outline some of the international legal principles applicable to CMI generally, focusing on the Law of the Sea, laws applicable to CMI damage, and their limitations. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Glad to have had the opportunity to review The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power, for the journal Regulation & Governance. Pre-print available on @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Glad to have had the opportunity to review The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power, for the journal Regulation & Governance. Pre-print available on @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

i love that techbros reinvent buses every few years

Register to join this timely discussion on June 2, in person or on line, with @katecrawford.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social, hosted by my Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study www.ias.edu/events/raree...

The Right Understands That All Governance Is Data Governance lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...

Absolutely beautiful talk by @ruha9.bsky.social. How to put technology in service of collective healing and worldmaking? Dystopia, Utopia, or UStopia? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIi...

New work with Gavin Sullivan in the German Law Journal! Informed by unique access, we trace the design of Cerberus: an AI-based risk tool deployed by the UK Home Office. Cerberus, we argue, enacts a governmentality of suspicion that evades our regulatory repertoire. cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨New Paper🚨 (hi law reviews!) ‘Digitizing the Fisc’ is the first article to address the current separation of fiscal powers crisis, exemplified by Trump's takeover of the Treasury's payments IT systems, through a tri-dimensional legal, political economic, & technological lens.

Some of you might have received the ESIL president's email this morning. What you might not know is that a group had been preparing to publish a letter that is open for signatures - most of the points of which are not addressed in this morning's email. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...

Academic freedom lies at the heart of our profession and we must protect it at all costs. In consultation with colleagues, we have tried to articulate widespread concerns with respect to the upcoming ESIL conference in Berlin, in light of recent events.

📣Academic freedom is a fundamental pillar of our profession. Read our statement by over 150 international lawyers & ESIL members on troubling decision by Freie Universiteit Berlin to curtail academic freedom ahead of ESIL 2025. Letter is open for signature. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...

Very happy to share the publication of this Special Issue on Law and Technology, guest edited with my wonderful colleagues of the @esil-sedi.bsky.social IG on Intl Law and Technology @roxanav.bsky.social, @barriesander.bsky.social, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social and Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi. 1/

📣Special Issue on Law & Technology, on the theme Is Fairness in Digital Governance a Trap?, available open access in the European Journal of Legal Studies, guest edited by the ESIL IG on International Law & Tech team.

🚨Elon Musk’s DOGE operatives are attempting to access confidential tax information — tax returns, bank data, Social Security numbers — for millions of Americans. Illegal access can lead to jail time under federal law. @wyden.senate.gov and I are investigating and fighting back.

"The best place to view Los Angeles of the next millennium is from the ruins of its alternative future." Mike Davis Absolutely heartbreaking to watch my hometown burn from afar. 💔 Praying for everyone in LA. www.latimes.com/california/l...

Simulacra & Simulation

The Estlink 2 submarine cable, which carries electricity between Finland and Estonia, was cut on Wednesday, Finland’s police said in a statement, the latest in a slew of disruptions to undersea infrastructure that are being investigated as acts of sabotage. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

A little Christmas Eve treat: French apple tart

AI is not replacing labor but creating new forms of human labor. If AI is being sold as more efficient and cost-saving, it’s a lie. It’s a resource intensive algorithmic system that is creating new costs and harms. In the health care context, those harms can be devastating.

Since I cannot find one, here is a starter pack for the slightly niche topic of every aspect of PIL and the interwebs. Please feel free to send me so I can add you :D

#ICYMI: Read the latest volume of the Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting here: 📚 https://cup.org/3ZXILol @ajil.bsky.social  #InternationalLaw

Graded 8 exams and 1 essay today. Please clap.

Check out @roxanav.bsky.social's paper on "algorithmic environmentality" which will appear in the same volume: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Who decides what we know about the ocean? In a new #IILJ working paper Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury, and I explore the governance of science data infrastructures through a deep dive (pun intended) into the governance of the Argo floats array: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Accurate.

First time writing a book. Will it ever feel "done"?

Sorry to cross-post from The Bad Place, but this is certainly intriguing. Russians on a Chinese flagged merchant vessel pursued and boarded by Danish Navy on suspicion of cable damage.

Heraclitus, 500 BC

#Germany and #Finland "deeply concerned" about severed undersea cable on.ft.com/4hWs2c4

I made a first attempt, there are DEFINITELY people missing, so I PROMISE this does not arbitrate who is inside and outside of LPE! You can reply to be added or DM me, also feel free to suggest other people, etc. go.bsky.app/P2sMKhK

Two more days to submit abstracts for our agora proposal & pre-conference workshop CFP on "When Renewal Repeats: The Dis/Continuities of International Law and Technology"! Deadline: 23 January

Property Law profs: do you incorporate issues around data, cryptocurrencies, and/ or short term housing/ Airbnb? If so, any recommendations on teaching materials for 1Ls?

Thrilled to announce our agora proposal & pre-conference workshop CFP on "When Renewal Repeats: The Dis/Continuities of International Law and Technology." Submit your abstract by 23 January. Organized by the ESIL Interest Group on International Law & Technology: esil-sedi.eu/call-for-pap...

🔥🔥 call for papers 🔥 🔥 calling all ECRs working on tech law & related topics: sciences po law & tech group is hosting the next Junges Digitales Recht conference on the 6-7 June 2024 and it promises to be unmissable details here! 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/... reposts much appreciated 🙏

Law Scholars letter urging a ceasefire picked up by the Guardian! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/letter-biden-israel-ceasefire-legal-scholars

Reading lists for my lectures on the Cambridge LLM module Law, Technology, and Society - a thread

As term gets underway you can find my half-year module in Internet Law and Policy at UCL Laws (almost all Open Access) here. It's usually 20 weeks not 10 weeks but I have an eagerly awaited sabbatical in Term 2. Please share yours if you have one! www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/syl...

JOB POSTING: We're looking for 2024 summer legal interns. You'll support ground-breaking First Amendment litigation. If you're a law student interested in free-speech advocacy in the digital age, this may be the internship you’ve been waiting for. Apply here: knightcolumbia.org/page/summer-...

Brilliant intervention by @salome.bsky.social @amandaparsons.bsky.social: "To effectively regulate informational capitalism, legal actors in these regimes must understand how companies use social data and its predictive value to create both wealth and power for themselves and their investors."

My latest paper on Digital Monetary Constitutionalism is out! Money is a powerful governance tool and technology. In what ways can digital forms of money promote the interests of marginalized communities, such as the un(der)banked and stateless populations? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....