International Law and technology

New Perspectives on Normativity: Joint lecture series on ‘International Law and Technology’

Digital Technologies are changing the modes in which law and governance operate, opening up toward new perspectives on normativity. How to think the relationship between international law and technology and its implications for normativity? What are the topologies of normativity that these terms connote? What must legal reasoning become to better attend to techno-legal assemblages? These questions are leading to the emergence of a new scholarly field revolving around ‘international law and technology’ with new theoretical and methodological approaches, new assumptions and preoccupations and new modes of working across disciplines. In this lecture series we bring together leading scholars in international law, international relations and legal theory to present their work and discuss the implications of an ever increasing digitization of socio-economic life.

The Opening conversation of the lecture series will be held on Tuesday 31 January from 12:00-13:30 (cet) at the University of Amsterdam. With speakers Matilda Arvidsson (Gothenburg University), Fleur Johns (UNSW Sydney) and Dimitri van den Meerssche (Queen Mary University)

Programme

• Opening conversation with Matilda Arvidsson (Gothenburg University), Fleur Johns (UNSW Sydney) and Dimitri van den Meerssche (Queen Mary University)

31 January, 12.00-13.30. University of Amsterdam Law School, REC A.3.01

• New Modes of Law-Making and Resistance in the Digital Age with Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi (University of Manchester)

20 February,15.30-17.00. Paris Campus

• Emerging Technologies and International Governance with Outi Korhonen (University of Turku)

13 March, 15.30-17.00. University of Amsterdam Law School, REC A.3.01

• International Law Becomes a Cyborg Science with John Haskell (University of Manchester)

3 April, 15.30-17.00. Paris Campus

• Terrorism through the eyes of the algorithm: how the law is (re)figured through security technology with Tasniem Anwar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

24 April, 15.30-17.00. University of Amsterdam Law School, REC A.3.01

• Sovereignty and the Law of Surveillance with Beatriz Botero Arcila (Sciences Po Paris)

15 May, 15.30-17.00. Paris Campus

• How can the Internet be Decolonised? with Densua Mumford (Leiden University)

5 June, 15.30-17.00. University of Amsterdam Law School, REC A.3.01

• International Trade Law and Global Data Governance: Never the Twain Shall Meet? with Neha Mishra (Geneva Graduate Institute)

19 June, 15.30-17.00. Paris Campus

• Closing conversation with Daniela Gandorfer (University of Westminster), Mireille Hildebrandt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) and Gregor Noll (University of Gothenburg)

26 June, 15.30-17.30. Paris Campus