Acknowledgements

This book is a collaborative project that originally developed from an international workshop (‘Global Governance by Data’) held at Edinburgh Law School, The University of Edinburgh, in September 2022, aimed at bringing researchers together around the shared problem of understanding and engaging with the transformative effects of AI and automated decision-making in the legal and political present. We are grateful to all the workshop participants for their enthusiastic engagement, including those unable to participate in this volume, including Nehal Bhuta, Sandeep Mertia, Louise Amoore, Alejandra Azuero Quijano, Delphine Dogot, Stephen Humphreys, Rocco Bellanova, Geoff Gordon and Mireille Hildebrandt. We thank Shauna Thompson and Stephanie Lewis from Edinburgh Law School’s Research Office for their practical support in making that international workshop happen and for helping us obtain the funding to ensure this book could be published open access. At Cambridge University Press, Natasha Burton, Edgar Mendez and Matt Galloway were equally patient and helpful in bringing this book to life. Reshma Venkatachalapathy from Integra also worked patiently and tirelessly throughout the production process. We thank Morag Goodwin and the other Global Law series editors for supporting interdisciplinary law and technology scholarship on AI-driven governance at a time when critical research in this area is urgently needed. In the final stages, Matilde Masetti Placci and Olivia Rawlings-Way provided invaluable research and editorial assistance to help get the book manuscript ready for submission. Both the workshop and book were supported by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Project, Infra-Legalities: Global Security Infrastructures, Artificial Intelligence and International Law (Grant Ref: MR/T041552/1; MR/Z00036X/1), awarded to Gavin Sullivan. We are extremely grateful for UKRI’s financial support.