"What we now consider inevitable and natural features of the digital landscape are in fact the result of fierce power struggles between opposing schools of thought. ... The Homo technologicus it produced mirrors the Homo economicus of modern economics...." ft.com/content/c63dae…

Great ICON•S panel on AI infrastructures, including a presentation by Yirong Sun on layers of regulatory intervention for language models & Angelina Fisher asking an often overlooked question, AI for what?, and proposing infrastructural thinking on components of AI.

Full house at ICON•S Critical Approaches to International Law. Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social discussing jurisliterature, esp science fiction, for imagining alternative worldbuilding. What does it mean for law to be written in stone, as metaphor & as reflection of (im)mutability of law?

Was moving seeing Guernica in person. Unfortunately still relevant.

A series of short and powerful reflections on international law and Gaza. Must read.

Academic friends and colleagues: any recommendations for academic book indexing?

Class prep for my Law & Tech seminar. Really looking forward to teaching this class this semester.

So good! Nice work Matteo Pasquinelli

Thrilled to share our IG workshop programme ESIL-SEDI Annual Conference in Vilnius (4 - 6 September)! 🔥🔥 Reflecting on patterns of continuity and rupture, we explore legal issues from genomics to cyberspace, from digital development to the digital battlefield. Join us in 🇱🇹!

Our ESIL IG International Law and Technology pre-conference workshop will take place on Wednesday 4 Sept 12:30-15:30 (in person and online)

Last but not least, join us on Friday 6 Sept for the ESIL IG International Law and Technology agora for an engaging discussion on the theme “When Renewal Repeats? International Lawmaking in a Digital Era” with Sarah Zarmsky Niccolò Ridi Adam Strobeyko and Jennifer Tridgell

Looking forward to sharing (part of) my doctoral research with these brilliant minds on Friday ESIL-SEDI My eternal gratitude to the organisers ✨️

Very much enjoyed acting as discussant for keynote speaker Simon Chesterman 陈西文 on his presentation The Tragedy of AI Governance, chaired by Jekaterina Govina. Thank you ESIL-SEDI @ESIL2024Vilnius Inga Martinkute for the invitation.

My first @ESIL_SEDI conference and I picked a winner! Wonderful event @ESIL2024Vilnius organized by Inga Martinkute and colleagues, where I had the chance to discuss “The Tragedy of AI Governance” with @Roxanav41 and Jekaterina Govina.

Incredibly powerful talk by Henning Lahmann ESIL-SEDI. On open source investigations and imperial gaslighting. On why the saturation with digital data cannot save us from political processes and hegemonic forces of fact-making. On the massive elephant in the room.

Really fascinating ESIL IG International Law and Technology agora @ESIL2024Vilnius on smart treaties, genetic sequence data sharing, and open source software 👇 Thanks to our wonderful panelists Niccolò Ridi, Adam Strobeyko, Jennifer Tridgell, and excellent chair Sarah Zarmsky 👏

Crypto's suppressed love of law! 📢📢📢 New paper: 'Augmented Law - Formalism in Blockchain' with Delphine Dogot Forthcoming in Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law Thanks to the editors Frank Pasquale and mireillemoret papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

My latest via ASIL: "Both law & tech contribute to inequality and injustice and have long historical connections to imperialism and violence... Nevertheless, their effects are not pre-determined—law & tech are critical sites of political contestation." bit.ly/4dwXpq3