| 1. |
- Brännström, Leila, et al.
(author)
-
Guest Editorial: Tech and the transformation of legal imagination
- 2023
-
In: AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence. - London : Springer. - 0951-5666 .- 1435-5655. ; 34, s. 309-314
-
Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This special section on ‘Tech and the Transformation of Legal Imagination’ is an attempt at creatively exploring the law of the tech era. We believe that emerging lines of continuity and discontinuity in the current moment of tech-induced legal transformation are insufficiently investigated. Together with the authors of this special section, we therefore set out in an effort to recover and reimagine the histories of the law/tech nexus, to critically examine the imaginaries operative in the ongoing transformation but also to imagine the future of law. In so doing, we cover two different constellations: one in which the law is imagined, and another in which the law imagines. As this structure is one that operates in other disciplines, too—computer science is imagined as much as it imagines—we believe it will be a useful entry point for readers beyond the discipline of law to explore the relation between tech, law and imagination. In all, we make a move from the general theme of tech, legal transformation and imagination to the more specific one of tech and the transformation of legal imagination.
|
|
| 2. |
- Brännström, Leila, et al.
(author)
-
Legal imagination and the US project of globalising the free flow of data
- 2023
-
In: AI & Society. - London : Springer. - 0951-5666 .- 1435-5655.
-
Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Today, the US pursues the global capture of data (understood as a significant engine of growth) by way of bi- and plurilateral trade agreements. However, the project of securing the global free flow of data has been pursued ever since the dawn of digital telecommunication in the 1960s and the US has made significant legal efforts to institutionalise it. These efforts have two phases: In the first 1970s and 80s “freedom of information” phase, the legal justification (and contestation) of the global free flow of data hinged on imagining data as information, and its exchange as a practice of liberty. The second phase began in the late 1990s and continues today. In this phase, the free flow of data is aligned with a free-trade agenda in the context of first e-commerce and, starting in the 2000s, through attempts at creating a global public domain of personal data for the platform economy. The global free flow of data is an intrinsic aspect of informational capitalism. Assuming a constitutive, but not commanding role for law in informational capitalism, we conclude that the US attempt at ensuring free flow for its informational corporations is neither an entirely contingent nor a necessary outcome. It is a product of legal imagination. © 2023, The Author(s).
|
|
| 3. |
|
|
| 4. |
- Jansson-Keshavarz, Sofi, 1984-, et al.
(author)
-
On Passports
- 2015
-
In: Retfærd. - Copenhagen, Denmark : Djoef Forlag. - 0105-1121. ; 3:150, s. 92-98
-
Journal article (other academic/artistic)
|
|
| 5. |
|
|
| 6. |
- Keshavarz, Mahmoud, 1985-, et al.
(author)
-
Targeted by Persuasion : Military Uniforms and the Legal Matter of Killing in War
- 2019
-
In: LAW TEXT CULTURE. - : UNIV WOLLONGONG. - 1322-9060 .- 2200-7121. ; 23, s. 223-239
-
Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In 1960 the CBS network broadcasted a 20-minute film titled 'How to Kill People: A Problem of Design'. In the film, George Nelson, a well-known American industrial designer, presents an argument concerning the historical development of weaponry design. Beginning with prehistoric stone weapons and moving on to rocket launchers and nuclear bombs, Nelson shows how the distance between the operator of these weapons and those subject to their violence has expanded greatly as weapons have become more complicated. Describing the development from a simple stone to a stone club and then to a bow and arrow, Nelson states: 'When the designer comes into the picture there's a tremendous improvement in the product. It's more interesting to look at. [The attacker] doesn't have to move quite as close. And the force of the blow is greatly increased' (1961: 47).
|
|
| 7. |
- Keshavarz, Mahmoud, et al.
(author)
-
Targeted by Persuasion : Military uniforms and the legal matter of killing in war
- 2019
-
In: Law Text Culture. - Wollongong, NSW : Legal Intersections Research Centre. - 1322-9060. ; 23, s. 223-239
-
Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this paper, we argue that the legitimation of killing in war is not simply formed by adherence to certainlegal requirements that exist apart from and prior to war; instead, we suggest, the law of armed conflict initself cannot but operate through admitting certain materials onto the battlefield as distinctively legalmaterials. Using the theory of legal materiality, we show that the military uniform is a legal material thatmakes the legal matter of legitimate targeting intelligible to law. This process happens through the waysin which the uniform shapes the possibility of visual recognition and differentiation in order to makecertain bodies targetable and others not targetable. We refer to this visual recognition and differentiationas a domain of persuasion. We show that the historical, functional and visual attributes of the uniform, asa design artefact, produce a convincing domain of distinction for the attacking agent. Finally, we turn toinsurgency, arguing that the legal matter of targeting is shaped not only by the presence, use andmanipulation of this legal material but also by the absence of it.
|
|
| 8. |
|
|
| 9. |
|
|
| 10. |
|
|
