On 7 May 2021 Gavin Sullivan was invited to participate in a workshop entitled ‘Challenging Socio-Legal Methodologies’ jointly organised by the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford and the Centre of Law and Society at Cardiff University. The workshop brought together a diverse international group of scholars engaging with problems of method in socio-legal research. Dr. Sullivan
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On 30 April 2021 the infra-Legalities research team hosted our first (virtual) meeting of the project Advisory Group via Zoom. Participants included: Dr. Sara Kendall (Kent Law School), Professor Eveleyn Ruppert (Goldsmiths), Dr. Julien JEANDESBOZ (Université libre de Bruxelles), Professor Deirdre Curtin (EUI), Professor Michael Rovatsos (The University of Edinburgh), together with project mentors Professor Mariana Valverde (University of Toronto)
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Gavin Sullivan’s recent book The Law of the List: UN Counterterrorism Sanctions and the Politics of Global Security Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020) was awarded two prestigious book prizes at the 2021 International Studies Association (ISA) convention in Las Vegas, USA.
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On 30 March 2021 the infra-Legalities research team gave a joint presentation, entitled Global Security Infrastructures: Risk and Racialised Violence to the Racial Infrastructures workshop at The University of Edinburgh.
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On 23 March 2021 Gavin Sullivan delivered a lecture to the School of International Studies (SIS) at the University of Trento Italy. The talk – entitled infra-Legalities and global security: Thinking law and infrastructures together – presented some of the early conceptual foundations of the research project.
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On 19 March 2021 Dr. Gavin Sullivan was invited to present his research on datafication and global security governance to Jindal Global Law School, in Sinipat India. In this virtual lecture Dr Sullivan discussed recent global infrastructure projects of the UN Security Council related to the algorithmic analysis of travel data (or, the UN Countering Terrorist Travel program). This is
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On 8 March 2021 Dr. Gavin Sullivan presented some of the initial aspects of the infra-Legalities research project at the University of Oxford. The paper, entitled, ‘infra-Legalities A method assemblage for thinking law and data infrastructures together’ was presented at a seminar hosted by the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) directed by Professor Linda Mulcahy.
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On 8 February 2021, the infra-Legalities research team participated in the third technical workshop of the Global Counterterrorism Forum’s Watchlisting Guidance Manual initiative – which is setting global standards on how terrorist watchlists and databases should be created and interconnected around the globe. The political and legal stakes of this ‘technical’ initiative are significant, to say the least.
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Dr Gavin Sullivan, a Reader in International Human Rights Law at Edinburgh Law School, will give insight into his recently published book – ‘The Law of the List: UN Counterterrorism Sanctions and the Politics of Global Security Law’ at a webinar hosted by the University of Cambridge as part of the Lauterpacht Centre Friday lecture series. The event will take
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Dr Gavin Sullivan joins Edinburgh Law School on 1 February 2021 as a Reader in International Human Rights Law.
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