On 20-21 October 2022 Gavin Sullivan attended a lively, interdisciplinary workshop at the EUI in Florence, Italy entitled, ‘What is “the Global”? Reassembling Legal Authority across Space and Time’. The workshop – organised by Prof. Nik Rajkovic (Tilburg Law School) and Prof. Tanja Aalberts (VU Amsterdam) – brought together a diverse group of scholars from international law, politics and international
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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.
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On 8 – 9 September 2022 more than 25 scholars from around the world gathered at Edinburgh Law School (and online) for the Infra-legalities workshop, Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule. The workshop opened important spaces for debate on how the data infrastructures sustaining AI and automated decision-making systems are reconfiguring international law and global governance practices and
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Dr. Tasniem Anwar is assistant professor at the department of Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She conducted her PhD on the prosecution of terrorism financing at the department of political science at the University of Amsterdam. The findings are published in academic journals including Security Dialogue and the Journal of Law and Society. Her current research interests include: counter-terrorism financing, terrorism trials, and
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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
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Earlier this week, Gavin Sullivan was consulted by senior policy managers at Meta (in the US and UK) to provide input into potential reforms to their Dangerous Individuals and Organisations Policy. The existing policy – which has long been kept secret by Meta, but was leaked last year by The Intercept – prohibits the ‘praise’, ‘support’ and ‘representation’ of designated
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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