EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 33: Owning the Future? International Law and Technology as a Critical Project

Worldwide regulation operates in a world of speedy technological transformation. From the battlefield to the border, from on-line content material moderation to open-source investigation, from humanitarianism to improvement, from counterterrorism to migration administration, practices of central concern to worldwide legal professionals are progressively altered by the introduction of latest technological instruments. Many of those developments are troubling. Using superior algorithmic concentrating on instruments utilized by Israel in Gaza instantiates each the super civilian hurt that data-driven applied sciences amplify and inflict, in addition to the constraints of our present authorized repertoire in registering the character, depth and scale of such harms. These injustices are layered onto the entrenched hierarchies, inequalities and sanctioned types of violence in worldwide regulation, however in addition they tackle novel shapes as energy and authority are routed alongside digital paths.

On this episode, Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (Queen Mary College of London) is joined by Angelina Fisher (Guarini International Regulation and Tech initiative, NYU) and André Dao (Laureate Program in International Companies, Melbourne Regulation College). Their dialog spans the co-constitutive relations between worldwide regulation and expertise, the boundaries of human rights, and new avenues for authorized critique and resistance that reclaim a shared, collective future towards its algorithmic appropriation.

The current EJIL ebook evaluate symposium on which the episode attracts, edited and launched by Dimitri Van Den Meersche, featured evaluate essays by:

Abhimanyu George Jain on Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi’s Drones and Worldwide Regulation: A Techno-Authorized Equipment (2023);
Marie Petersmann on Ramon Amaro’s The Black Technical Object: On Machine Studying and the Aspiration of Black Being (2022);
Christine Schwöbel-Patel on Karen Levy’s Information Pushed: Truckers, Know-how and the New Office Surveillance (2023);
André Dao on Elizabeth M. Renieris’ Past Information: Reclaiming Human Rights on the Daybreak of the Metaverse (2023);
Angelina Fisher on Joshua Bowsher’s The Informational Logic of Human Rights: Community Imaginaries within the Cybernetic Age (2022).

Different scholarship talked about consists of: Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation (translated by B. Wing) (1997); Sally Engle Merry, Human Rights and Gender Violence – Translating Worldwide Regulation into Native Justice (2005); Fleur Johns, Non-Legality in Worldwide Regulation: Unruly Regulation (2013); Ratna Kapur, Gender, Alterity and Human Rights – Freedom in a Fishbowl (2020); Yuk Hui, The Query Regarding Know-how in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics (2021); Henning Lahmann, ‘Self-Dedication within the Age of Algorithmic Warfare’ (2025) European Journal of Authorized Research 161–214.