Critical Analysis of Law Workshop
presents
Fleur Johns
University of New South Wales
Faculty of Law
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium - Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Just as a rethinking of materiality and matter is underway across the academy, so the work of global governance seems increasingly to be turned over to the active ‘things’ of data. Case-by-case deliberation seems to have given way, frequently, to the definition of algorithmic instructions followed by a getting-out-of-the-algorithm’s-way. Data analytics and the lists they generate bear out this tendency across many fields (the algorithm itself being a list, perhaps an archetypal one). This proliferation of algorithms and lists, as regulatory devices and mechanisms for the exercise of public authority, is concerning for many. A frequent response entails the championing of transparency. Is it, however, in the direction of publicity and transparency that public international lawyers should incline their data- and list-related thinking? What might making these developments ‘public’ demand? To what extent might the ways of bringing-into-relation that lists and data analytics effect amount to juridical associations, or be experienced as such, and with what implications? This paper will reflect upon these questions with reference to a range of listed assemblages across the international legal field.
Fleur Johns (BA, LLB (Hons) (Melb.); LLM, SJD (Harvard)) is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. Fleur is author of Non-legality in International Law: Unruly Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and editor of International Legal Personality (Ashgate, 2010) and Events: The Force of International Law (Routledge-Cavendish, 2011, with Sundhya Pahuja and Richard Joyce); a full list of her publications and editorial roles is available here. Before commencing her academic career, Fleur practised as a corporate lawyer in New York for six years, specialising in international project finance. She has also worked with a range of non-governmental and international organizations around the world.
A light lunch will be provided.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca
