Professor E. Tendayi Achiume is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and an international legal scholar focusing on international human rights law, international refugee law and international migration law. Her academic research explores the global governance of racism and xenophobia, and the legal and ethical implications of colonialism and other forms of empire for the governance of international migration. She is also Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria, Research Associate with the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand and Research Associate with the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. In November 2017, the United Nations Human Rights Council appointed Professor Achiume the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, making her the first woman to serve in this role since its creation in 1993.

Dr Tasniem Anwar is Assistant Professor at the Department of Criminology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her current research interests include counterterrorism financing, terrorism trials, emerging security technologies for countering terrorism and post-colonial theory. She has published in academic journals including Security Dialogue, the Journal of Law and Society and the European Journal of International Relations. She is a senior organiser of the Doing IPS seminar series in the Netherlands.

Claudia Aradau is Professor of International Politics in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. Her research has developed critical approaches to (in)security, focusing on the political contestation of the government of individuals and populations, of self and others. Her latest book, co-authored with Tobias Blanke, is Algorithmic Reason: The New Government of Self and Other (Oxford University Press, 2022). She is working on a new book, which mobilises concepts of articulation/disarticulation and invisible work to understand border security and control through digital technologies. She was the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council Consolidator Grant ‘Enacting border security in the digital age: Political worlds of data forms, flows and frictions’ (2019–2025).

Matilda Arvidsson is Researcher in Sociology of Law at Lund University, and Associate Professor of Law at the Department of Law at the University of Gothenburg.

Dr Jennifer Cobbe is Assistant Professor in Law and Technology in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, where she is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Richard Fentiman Fellow in Law at Queens’ College. Before joining the Law Faculty, she was Senior Research Associate in the Computer Science Department at Cambridge University. She holds a PhD in Law and an LLM in Law and Governance from Queen’s University, Belfast. She is interested in critical, interdisciplinary work on questions of power, political economy and the law around internet platforms and informational capitalism, technological supply chains and infrastructures and AI and automated decision-making.

Julie E. Cohen is the Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology and a faculty co-director of the Institute for Technology Law and Policy at the Georgetown University Law Center. She teaches and writes about surveillance, privacy and data protection, intellectual property, information platforms and the ways that networked information and communication technologies are reshaping legal institutions. She is the author of Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism (Oxford University Press, 2019), Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code and the Play of Everyday Practice (Yale University Press, 2012) and numerous articles and book chapters.

Deval Desai is Reader in International Economic Law at Edinburgh Law School. He studies law and development, administrative law and regulation, theories of the state and knowledge and authority from the Global South. He has taught on these topics at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Harvard Law School, Manchester, Melbourne, Northeastern, SOAS and the Universidad de los Andes.

Angelina Fisher is Director for Practice and Policy of Guarini Global Law & Tech and Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. She holds an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM in international legal studies from New York University School of Law. She is the founder of the International Organizations Clinic. Her research interests include international organisations; data, digitalisation and development; ocean governance; and global data law.

Daniela Gandorfer is Lecturer at the University of Westminster and founder of the award-winning non-profit Logische Phantasie Lab (LoPh+). Her research focuses on technological frontier spaces and their influence on emerging normativity and governance. She has co-edited the Research Handbook in Law and Literature (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022) and the Theory & Event special issue ‘Matterphorical’. Her book Matterphorics: On the Laws of Theory was published in 2026 by Duke University Press. Daniela holds a PhD from Princeton University and is completing an MSc in Finance at LSE.

Jake Goldenfein is a law and technology scholar at Melbourne Law School and Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Prior to his appointment at MLS he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, Cornell University. He studies platform regulation, data governance, digital surveillance and the governance of automated decision-making. His first monograph Monitoring Laws was published with Cambridge University Press in 2019, and his current work explores the ways law constructs the data economy, digital surveillance including facial recognition and tools for governing automated decision-making like a ‘human in the loop’ and AI explanations.

Professor Fleur Johns is Dean and Head of School of Sydney Law School at the University of Sydney and a scholar of international law and technology, law and development and international legal theory. Her prior books include Connection in a Divided World (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2024), #Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order (Oxford University Press, 2023) and Non-Legality in International Law: Unruly Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Benedict Kingsbury is Vice Dean and Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He is a scholar of international law, ordering and governance. His current work focuses on physical, digital and informational infrastructure (InfraReg), global data law (including digital sequence data, earth systems data issues and AI-data) and a project on planetary and space governance issues

Andrew Lang is Professor of Law and Chair in International Law and Global Governance at the University of Edinburgh. He works on the law of the global economy, with a particular focus on the emergence and evolution of the regulatory state in the post–Cold War period, the relation between international economic law and global distributions of value and theories of contemporary transformation of global economic order.

Anna Leander is Professor of International Relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute. She previously held positions in Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Italy and the USA. Her research focusses on four, interrelated, political themes: the commercial security politics of mundane material objects; of digital infrastructures; of aesthetics; and of expertise. She is currently a principal investigator on the project The Future of Humanitarian Design (https://humanitarian.design/about/).

Dan McQuillan is Senior Lecturer in Creative & Social Computing at Goldsmiths University of London. After a PhD in Experimental Particle Physics, he worked with people with learning disabilities and mental health issues, created websites with asylum seekers, ran social innovation camps in Georgia, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, led a citizen science project in Kosova and worked in digital roles in both Amnesty International and the NHS. He recently authored Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence (Bristol University Press, 2022).

Thao Phan is a feminist science and technology studies (STS) researcher who specialises in the study of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She is Lecturer in Sociology (STS) in the Research School for Social Sciences at the Australian National University (ANU). She has published on topics including whiteness and the aesthetics of AI, big-data-driven techniques of racial classification and the commercial capture of AI ethics research. She is the co-editor of the volumes An Anthropogenic Table of Elements (University of Toronto Press, 2022) and Economies of Virtue: The Circulation of ‘Ethics’ in AI (Institute of Network Cultures, 2022), and her writing appears in journals such as Big Data & Society, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, Science as Culture and Cultural Studies.

Alain Pottage is Professor of Law at Sciences Po. His current work relates to articulations of law and media, in fields ranging from jurisprudences of the Earth to the agencies of typography.

Jennifer Raso is Associate Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law and a member of the McGill Collaborative for AI and Society. Using socio-legal-technical methods and theories, her work investigates the relationships between discretion, public officials, algorithmic tools and administrative law. She is particularly interested in how administrative decisions are co-produced by humans, tools and institutions, and the consequences for fair processes and substantive justice. An award-winning socio-legal scholar, Dr Raso’s work has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), the Fonds de Recherche du Québec and Australia’s Endeavour programme. Recent publications appear in Data & Society’s Keywords of the Datafied State collection (edited by Jenna Burrell, Ranjit Singh, Patrick Davison, 2024), the McGill Law Journal, the University of Toronto Law Journal and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, among others.

Thomas Streinz was the inaugural Executive Director of Guarini Global Law & Tech at NYU Law, where he has pursued collaborative research projects on global data law and digital infrastructure governance. As a Fellow at NYU Law’s Institute for International Law and Justice (IILJ), he has been involved in the InfraReg and MegaReg research projects. As Adjunct Professor of Law at NYU Law, he convened the Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations and taught courses on global data law and global tech law. He co-edited Megaregulation Contested: Global Economic Ordering after TPP (OUP 2019) and Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law: Disruption, Regulation, and Reconfiguration (CUP 2021). Since January 2025, he has been Joint Chair in Law and Regulatory Theory at the European University Institute Law Department and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.

Gavin Sullivan is a Reader at Edinburgh Law School and interdisciplinary law, technology and security scholar currently leading the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)-funded socio-legal research project, Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, AI and International Law. His first book, The Law of the List: UN Counterterrorism Sanctions and the Politics of Global Security Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020), won the 2021 International Law and STAIR Book Awards of the International Studies Association (ISA). His current work focuses on AI-driven security and mobility governance, infrastructural geopolitics, digital authoritarianism and their implications for law, jurisdiction, accountability and rights and the dynamics of global exclusion. He is Co-Editor of the International Journal of Law in Context and Critical Studies on Security.

Martina Tazzioli is Associate Professor in geography at the University of Bologna. She is the author of Border Abolitionism: Migration Containment and the Genealogies of Struggles (Manchester University Press, 2023), The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders (Sage, 2019), Spaces of Governmentality: Autonomous Migration and the Arab Uprisings (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015) and co-author of Tunisia as a Revolutionised Space of Migration (Palgrave, 2016).

Ana Valdivia is Departmental Research Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). She investigates how datafication and algorithmic systems are transforming political, social and ecological worlds. With a background in mathematics and computer science, her research focuses on the impact of AI on local communities, borders and territories.

Mariana Valverde has contributed to social and legal theory and also to empirical studies of ‘law in action’, especially at the local level. She is the author, among other things, of Michel Foucault (Routledge, 2015), Chronotopes of Law: Scale, Jurisdiction, and Governance (Routledge, 2017) and Infrastructure: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2022). She has been an activist in feminist struggles, in Latin American solidarity and in other progressive causes, mainly in Toronto.

Dimitri Van Den Meerssche is Senior Lecturer in Law and Fellow of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) at Queen Mary University of London. His current research focuses on the impact of algorithmic governance on political subjectivity, and its inequalities and exclusions. He co-founded and convenes the European Society of International Law (ESIL) International Law & Technology Interest Group. His first book is The World Bank’s Lawyers: The Life of International Law as Institutional Practice (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Dr Roxana Vatanparast is Associate Professor of Law at Capital University Law School. Her research interests lie at the intersections of law, technology, political economy, data governance and infrastructures. She is author of Cable Empires: The Co-Production of Infrastructure, Technology, and International Law (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press). From 2020–2026, she served as a convenor of ESIL’s Interest Group on International Law and Technology. Each summer, Dr Vatanparast teaches a course on Global Digital Law at Harvard Summer School. She holds an LLM and a PhD in law and institutions from the University of Turin, Faculty of Law, and a JD from UC Law SF. Prior to teaching, she practised law for several years in private practice.

Scott Wark is Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University. His research combines an interest in theoretical approaches to media and culture with analyses of digital cultural phenomena, media infrastructures, data processing, AI and techniques of racialisation. He is co-editor of Figure: Concept and Method (with Celia Lury and William Viney; Palgrave, 2022) and ‘Pharmacologies of Media’, a special issue of Media Theory (with Yiğit Soncul).

Karen Yeung is a leading scholar in the governance of emerging technologies. She is recognised worldwide for her work in the regulation and governance of AI, urging scholars from computer science, engineering, law, the humanities and the social sciences to engage in the interdisciplinary work needed to address the novel social challenges which these increasingly powerful technologies generate. She has been extensively involved in many technology policy initiatives at European, international and national levels, and regularly gives talks about the role of the law and legal institutions in governing networked digital technologies responsibly to protect and nurture human flourishing. She currently holds an Interdisciplinary Chair in Law, Ethics and Informatics at the University of Birmingham, based in the Birmingham Law School and the School of Computer Science.