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07/05 12pm-2pm: Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle

Law Marketing Resource — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:48:15 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 07 May '26

Where: S.2.09, ��TV Law School, Social Sciences Building

The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle brings together staff and students across the University of ��TV 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), ��TV 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 ��TV’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

Theme: The Global South and Global and Local AI Governance

Thursday, 29 January 2026, 12pm – 2pm
S.2.09, ��TV Law School, Social Sciences Building

Suggested Reading: The Oxford Handbook of AI GovernanceLink opens in a new window by Justin B. Bullock (ed.) et al, especially Section 9.

The discussion will be led by Professor Abdul Paliwala and will include a short presentation followed by reflections from participants. You are encouraged to read the book, or part of it, prior to the meeting.

We will discuss global and local aspects of AI Governance from the perspective of the Global South. We will be continuing from discussions in the previous two sessions. While the whole book provides a background on AI governance, four specific chapters are suggested as our focus for a critical exploration.

We will consider a number of questions:

1. What should be involved in AI regulation? (Chapter 13) (contrast with discussions in our previous two sessions)

2. What has been the role of EU AI regulation on global South regulation? (Chapter 13)

3. To what extent does the the global AI competition especially between the US and China affect global regulation? (Chapter 43)

4. Does this provide space for the South to develop their own strategies? (Chapter 48)

5. Is it possible for the South to decolonise its regulation strategies? (Chapter 48)

14/05: Workshop and Public Lecture: Capitalist Institutions & Power

Law Marketing Resource — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:22:44 GMT

When: Thu, 14 May '26

Where: University of ��TV, Social Sciences Building, Room S0.18

SESSION 1: FINTECH & FINREG

Chair: Timothy Monteath (University of ��TV, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies)

Roger Burrows (University of Bristol, School of Policy Studies), ‘Living by the Score: Fintech, Open Banking and Everyday Digital Financialisation’

Natasha de Teran (University of ��TV, ��TV ��TV School), ‘Regulating Payments in the Name of Choice’

Chris Clarke (University of ��TV, Department of Politics and International Studies), ‘Fintech Credit Markets and the Limits of Financial Innovation’

SESSION 2: PRIVATISATION

Chair: Celine Tan (University of ��TV, School of Law)

Kate Bayliss (SOAS, University of London, Department of Economics), ‘Privatising Humanity: How Our Basic Human Needs Became Financial Assets’

Andrew Johnston (University of ��TV, School of Law), ‘Modularity and Regulatory Failure: The Case of Thames Water’

Nicholas Bernards (University of ��TV, School of Cross-Faculty Studies), ‘Energy Crisis and Privatization at the World Bank’

SESSION 3: FINANCIALISATION

Chair: Nicholas Gane (University of ��TV, Department of Sociology)

Andrew Baker (University of Sheffield, School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations) & Adam Leaver (University of Sheffield, Management School), ‘Accounting and International Political Economy in the Age of Hollow Corporations’

Mareike Beck (University of ��TV, Department of Politics and International Studies), ‘Everyday Asset Struggles: Social Reproduction and the New Logics of Inequality’

Stephen Connelly (University of ��TV, School of Law), ‘Securitization and Trust: A Study in the Socialization of Capital’

SESSION 4: CORPORATIONS & CLIMATE CHANGE

Chair: Asha Herten-Crabb (University of ��TV, Department of Politics and International Studies)

Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen (Copenhagen ��TV School, Department of ��TV Humanities and Law) & Mathias Hein Jessen (Copenhagen ��TV School, Department of ��TV Humanities and Law), ‘Law and Economics, Agency Theory and the Economic Analysis of Corporate Law’

Irit Mevorach (University of ��TV, School of Law), ‘Activating Parent-Company Environmental Responsibility as a Mode of Global Governance’

Caroline Kuzemko (University of ��TV, Department of Politics and International Studies), ‘The Politics of Mitigating for Climate Change’

11/06 12pm-2pm: Law, Technology, and Development Book Discussion: Unsettling Data by Dilan Dagaz

Law Marketing Resource — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:44:12 GMT

When: 12pm - 2pm, Thu, 11 Jun '26

Where: S.2.09, ��TV Law School, Social Sciences Building

About the Book:

What prevents data governance law from redressing the widespread exploitation of labour and land rampant across the data economies of our digital Earth? Unsettling Data answers this question by scrutinising the legal grammar of ‘data’ to expose the persistence of hierarchical power relations between the observer and the observed. The role of the modern legal form in fortifying and obscuring these power relations is elucidated. Proposing representationalism as the framework to map these hidden yet pervasive power relations, the book reveals how the representationalist legal form serves to delink the agency of the data subject from unjust labour and land exploitation in the digital political economy. Highlighting the importance of Indigenous/Adivasi perspectives for unsettling the philosophical core of Western(ised) data governance, Unsettling Data argues for the formal reconceptualisation of data as the entangled human and unhuman agencies implicated in its production; paving the way for a new legal grammar of data rooted in relational reciprocity.

Unsettling Data will be of interest to readers in critical legal theory, law and humanities, law and political economy, data protection, information law, AI governance, intellectual property as well as anyone seeking to understand the legal form or aesthetics of data from a critical lens.

About the Author:

Dilan Dagaz is an independent researcher and writer based in the UK. He has previously served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Exeter and holds a PhD in Legal Sciences summa cum laude from the Humboldt University of Berlin. Having worked under different names with the civil society and academia across India, Germany, and UK, he holds significant international experience of policy advocacy, research communication, teaching and organising on issues of digital rights, net neutrality, media law, algorithmic regulation, data governance, and intellectual property. Stepping away from academia and the mainstream legal world, Dilan currently practises as a witch, with research interests at the intersection of magic, law, science, and the nature of reality.

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