On 19 November 2021, Dimitri was invited to talk about the methodological approach of the infra-legalities project in an event at the University of Helsinki on IOs Engaging the World.
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On 16 November 2021 Gavin Sullivan gave a paper presentation of his recent research to the UNSW School of Law. The paper, ‘infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures and the Automated Governance of Online Terrorism and Violent Extremism’ was prepared during Dr. Sullivan’s time as a Visiting Scholar at UNSW from June – August 2021. Unfortunately, due to Covid-19 university restrictions, Dr.
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As part of the NYU IILJ Colloquium in Fall 2021 on Infrastructure, Rights, and Regulation, Dimitri, presented his work on ‘Digital and Algorithmic Border Control’.
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On 28 October 2021 Gavin Sullivan co-authored an op-ed (with Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi and Ramzi Kassem) on the flaws of the Counterterrorism Watchlisting Toolkit recently produced by the Global Counter Terrorism Forum (GCTF). The op-ed, entitled ‘Watchlisting the World: Digital Security Infrastructures, Informal Law and the Global War on Terror’ highlights how the GCTF’s informal norms create the infrastructure for far-reaching
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The infra-Legalities research team recently presented early research at the 2021 Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S conference) organised from the University of Toronto. The paper, entitled ‘Transparency Multiple: Algorithmic Regulation and the Governance of Terrorist and Extremist Content (TVEC) Online’, critically engaged with the politics of transparency in online CT space. We hope it
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From September 2021 – July 2022, Gavin Sullivan will be a Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human for Human Values (UCHV) in the United States. His visit to Princeton will be hosted by Professor Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and
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The European Society for International Law (ESIL) Annual Meeting, the leading international law research event from across the EU, took place at the University of Stockholm from 9 – 11 September 2021. The theme for this year’s conference, ‘Changes in International Lawmaking: Actors, Processes, Impact’ sought to explore the conceptual and normative implications of new processes of international lawmaking and
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Dimitri published a working paper in the InfraReg Series of NYU’s Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ).
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From the June – August 2021, Gavin Sullivan will be visiting UNSW School of Law, Society and Criminology in Sydney, Australia as a Visiting Scholar. During his visit, Dr. Sullivan will be working closely with Professor Fleur Johns (UNSW), an academic collaborator in the infra-Legalities research project, and developing and planning joint research together. The visit also enables Dr Sullivan
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Gavin Sullivan has contributed a short text about the infra-Legalities research project for the new University of Oxford online platform, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies. The platform aims to ‘provoke new debates, provide a space for reflection and imagine new Socio-Legal futures’ and is organised by the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS). The contribution highlights two methodological issues with socio-legal
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