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About the Event:

Theme: AI in and beyond Work in the UK: Contesting New Forms of Exploitation and Surveillance

The use of Artificial Intelligence at work has become an issue for industrial disputes across many sectors in the UK. These issues include AI being used as an opportunity for layoffs and casualisation; deskilling; new forms of algorithmic management and surveillance; work intensification; and unpaid data extraction. Simultaneously, the UK government has pursued a pro-tech-sector AI policy – involving multiple new public sector contracts, data centres and nuclear power projects – while communities raise urgent questions about not only the environmental impact of data centres but also the governmental and corporate data extraction and use of AI to manage, predict, police and wage war. We will discuss the political and legal questions this conjuncture raises: the relationship between labour, data and value; state and corporate knowledge and power through new AI and data extraction infrastructures; the unequal distribution of harms, environmental implications and violence; and the possible relationships between labour and community forms of organising and resistance.

About the Speaker:

is a researcher in the trade union research organisation and an independent scholar. She focuses on the politics of class and labour movements, psychic life, and the scientific and technological governance of our ability to work. Her research has appeared in journals such as , , , and , as well as in non-academic publications such as , of which she was a co-editor. She is author of (Pluto Press, 2019), which brought into theoretical dialogue social movements in the Greek debt crisis. At LRD, she produced the guide (2026). She holds a PhD in Politics and Governance from the University of Kent.

Chaired by: Dr Serena NatileLink opens in a new window, ÌÇÐÄTV Law School

About The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle:

The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circlebrings together staff and students across the University of ÌÇÐÄTV who are interested in the regulatory, governance, human rights, and political economy challenges of technology in/and on society. The group is coordinated by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), ÌÇÐÄTV Law School and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) with the aim to create a space for sharing and discussing research and policy developments.

Through reading groups, events, and policy conversations the group aims to develop cross faculty collaborations that foreground ÌÇÐÄTV’s law in context, and interdisciplinary research culture.

For more information on the group, please contact: Dr Siddharth De Souza (Siddharth.De-Souza@warwick.ac.uk) or Dr Serena Natile (Serena.Natile@warwick.ac.uk).

For logistical information about the events, please contact globe@warwick.ac.uk

About the Series​:

Postgraduate and research students are invited to attend a series of lectures by distinguished international scholars, legal practitioners, and industry professionals. Undergraduate students are also welcome.

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This socio-legal research examines the legal and financial construction of blue bonds as water-related sustainable finance instruments. While the protection of seas and oceans is increasingly recognised in climate and biodiversity regimes, it remains the least funded global environmental goal. Blue bonds have emerged to channel private finance toward marine and freshwater protection, beginning with Seychelles’ 2018 issuance. This project critically assesses whether different blue bond modalities align with international environmental and human rights law. The research draws on doctrinal analysis and case studies in the Seychelles, Belize, and the Nordic-Baltic region. It adopts a socio-legal perspective informed by critical legal theory and political ecology. Some research findings that will be shared in this seminar include how selected blue bonds fail adequate demonstration of environmental additionality and generate tensions with common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities principle.

About the Speaker:

Arınç Onat Kılıç is a doctoral researcher and teaching assistant at the Faculty of Law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His research examines whether different modalities of blue finance comply with international environmental law and a human rights-based approach.

Discussant: Jodi-Ann Jue Xuan Wang, PhD Researcher, Oxford Department of International Development.

Lunch will be provided.
Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have any dietary or access requirements.

This termly Law School event offers Continuing Professional Development through a review of recent case law developments by our expert colleagues. Volunteers will summarise cases that have intrigued them drawn from fields as diverse as contract law, consumer law, company law, investment arbitration, tax, and intellectual property law. All are welcome to attend (faculty, postgraduate and undergraduate students), either to present a case or to listen and ask questions.

Lunch will be provided.

Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have any dietary or access requirements.

About the Book

, edited by Gbenga Sesan and Tony Roberts, is the first collected edition book on biometric digital ID across Africa. Nine country case studies by African scholars provide the most comprehensive documentation of digital ID in their country to date. The chapter authors provide the most sustained conceptual analysis of the forces driving the rapid roll-out of biometric identification systems, asking who benefits, what are the impacts on human rights, and what power interests are served by the billions of dollars being invested in digital-ID and digital public infrastructure more widely? In none of the countries studied did citizens ask for the introduction of biometric digital-ID, prompting the question whose agenda is it? The evidence presented in the book suggests that an alignment of security, technology, funder and bureaucratic interests are driving this change and that already marginalised ethnic and low-income groups are often negatively impacted.

About the Speaker

Dr. Tony Roberts is an Emeritus Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies. He has been working at the intersection of digital technologies, international development and social justice since 1988 as a volunteer, lecturer, practitioner, trustee and researcher. After lecturing in New Technology and Education at the University of East London, Tony founded and directed two international development agencies for over a decade each. He left Computer Aid International aged 48 to begin a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London studying the used of participatory video in international development. He joined IDS after a postdoc in the Gender Tech Lab of the United Nations University, in Macau, China. Tony spent a decade at IDS where he accidently established the African Digital Rights Network with whom he led a series of studies, published 8 reports and 9 books on digital rights. He is the series editor of the "Digital Africa" collected edition book series published by Zed Books/Bloomsbury. For a full list of Tony’s publications and blogs please see his website Appropriating Technology or Google Scholar.