Technolegal modes of governance and resistance in the digital world 

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.

Technolegal modes of governance and resistance in the digital world

The second lecture of a new joint-lecture series between C3RD and the Amsterdam Centre for International Law at Amsterdam University.

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. Dr Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi (University of Manchester) will be presenting her research.

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

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

20 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