The lecture series is held on Mondays from 15.30-17.00 every three weeks alternating between the University of Amsterdam and the Université Catholique de Lille Paris Campus. All lectures will also be accessible in a hybrid format via Zoom. A short text will be distributed approximately one week before the sessions to registered participants.

Beyond Technicalities: Exploring the Political and Distributive Dimensions of AI Human Rights Standards.

The sixth lecture of a new joint-lecture series between ACIL and the Research Centre on Risk & Law C3RD at the Université Catholique Lille. The Series will be inquiring into the emergence of a new scholarly field revolving around ‘International Law and Technology’ with its theoretical and methodological approaches, its assumptions and preoccupations and new modes of working across disciplines. The presenter is Beatriz Botero Arcila, who is an assistant professor of law at Sciences Po and an affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. She holds an SJD and an LLM from Harvard Law School and is a lawyer from Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia. Her research and expertise focus on data governance in urban environments. privacy law, data governance policy, municipal law, platform governance, and legal theory.

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.

Future events of the Series

•  Beyond Technicalities: Exploring the Political and Distributive Dimensions of AI Human Rights Standards. 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