The determination of territorial jurisdiction for transboundary climate harm presents a significant legal challenge in climate change litigation as evidenced by recent cases decided by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the Committee on the Rights of the Child. While it is widely accepted that states have extraterritorial human rights obligations under certain...
From algorithms used in policing and the judicial system, to numerous social welfare fraud detection cases, examples of implementation of algorithms in public governance amass in recent years. Algorithmic governance can rely on surveillance, for instance in cases of spatial crime forecasting, or on censorship, such as when used for repression of protests. In this...
Water does not know boundaries, it ebbs and flows between people, communities, states, time and generations. Globally, water is deeply connected to place, people, history, spirituality, daily life, basic needs, human rights, movement, recreation, sovereignty, industry, economy, and power. Upstream and downstream states are unavoidably interconnected. There is a significant amount of water on...
Note: This is a cross-post of a blog originally published on the The Digital Constitutionalist Excerpt: The initial Commission proposal for the AI Act focused on establishing requirements and safeguards applicable to the various operators of AI systems but lacked individual rights and remedies for persons on the receiving end of such systems. In...
