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1st Episode: New Digital Technologies and Global Security Governance

Forms of Inequality and Exclusion Enacted by Practices of Algorithmic Governance

10.03.2025

In the first episode, we are pleased to welcome Dr Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, a Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) at Queen Mary University of London, for a discussion around his current research on the impact of new digital technologies on global security governance, and the forms of inequality and exclusion enacted by practices of algorithmic governance.

 

 

Additional material:

  • Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, ‘Virtual Borders: International Law and the Elusive Inequalities of Algorithmic Association’, European Journal of International Law, Volume 33, Issue 1, (February 2022) pages 171–204, available at https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chac007
  • Geoff Gordon, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, ‘The Critical Subject and The Subject of Critique in International Law and Technology’, (2023) Volume 117 pages 134-138, available at doi:10.1017/aju.2023.20 and at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4461196
  • Dimitri van den Meerssche and Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, ‘Failing where it matters most? The EU AI Act and the legalized opacity of security tech’, The Digital Constitutionalist (22 December 2022), available at https://digi-con.org/failing-where-it-matters-most/

The episode is also available on Spotify.

Authors
Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi

Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi is an Assistant Professor of Law at Sciences Po Law School. Her current research is situated in the fields of international law, international legal theory and digital security law and governance.

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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

Dimitri Van Den Meerssche is a Lecturer in Law and Fellow of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) at Queen Mary University of London. His current research studies the impact of new digital technologies on global security governance, with a focus on counterterrorism and border control.

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