Events

CGM hosted a discussion exploring whether the human rights regime approach structures peaceful societies.

Brett Frischmann, Villanova University presented To What End? On Infrastructural Governance.

How can peaceful coexistence and cooperation be encouraged in deeply divided societies, especially when those divisions stem from religion?

CGM hosted a book launch for Possessive Individualism: A Crisis of Capitalism (Oxford University Press) with author Daniel Bromley.

Margaret Hu, Pennsylvania State University presented The Big Data Constitution.

More than half of the world’s population live in cities and that number is expected to grow to nearly three quarters by 2050. Increasingly, cities are eager to position themselves as the ‘Smart Cities’ of the future, but what qualifies a city to be designated as ‘smart’?

CGM hosted a book launch of Doing Global Fieldwork: A Social Scientist's Guide to Mixed-Methods Research Far from Home (Columbia University Press, 2021).

Ryan Abbott, University of Surrey presented The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.

Annette Vee presented NFTs, Digital Scarcity, and the Computational Aura, as part of our fall seminar series on the Future of Law in Technology and Governance.

Haroun Rahimi, Assistant Professor of Law, American University of Afghanistan, will present his research on the hawala, the informal finance system in Afghanistan.

Sarah Lawsky, Northwestern University presented Coding the Code: Catala and Computationally Accessible Tax Law.

Using the case of the USDA and organic farming legislation, the panelists discuss the systemic understanding of institutional language through "institutional syntax" in policy.