Author: ebarlow

In early October infra-legalities project lead, Gavin Sullivan was again asked by Meta to provide expert input into proposed changes to their Dangerous Individuals and Organizations (DIO) policy. The DIO policy is the key policy meta uses to moderate and remove terrorist and violent extremist content (TVEC) form their platform. Few internal details about this policy have been publicly disclosed.

On 1 September 2022, Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, postdoctoral researcher on the Infra-legalities project, started an exciting new interdisciplinary role as a tenure-track Lecturer in Law and Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences Fellow at Queen Mary University London (QMUL). Dimitri will continue to work collaboratively with Gavin Sullivan on infra-legalities related research concerning algorithmic border governance practices. We will

A new report co-authored by Gavin Sullivan and Chris Jones (Executive Director, Statewatch) was recently published by the Funders Initiative for Civil Society (FICS) on the adverse impacts of global counterterrorism infrastructure on civic space.

Dimitri’s latest article – Virtual Borders – International Law and the Elusive Inequalities of Algorithmic Association – has been published in the European Journal of International Law. 

On 11 May 2022 Gavin Sullivan presented his infra-Legalities research on automated platform security governance at the second Workshop on the Co-development of Computer Science and Law in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

As part of the convening committee of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, Gavin and Dimitri are co-organising a panel in the context of the ESIL Annual Conference in Utrecht.

On 27 – 28 April 2022 Gavin Sullivan participated in a high-level retreat on UN sanctions and due process at the Greentree Estate, Rhode Island jointly organised by the Graduate Institute, Geneva and the UN Permanent Missions of Ireland, Norway and Switzerland.

Dimitri participated in a workshop, organised by Lund University and Gothenburg University on Tech and the Transformation of Legal Imagination.