Global Governance by Data

Some of today's most exciting scholars of law and governance grapple afresh with how AI is materially reconfiguring global ordering.

As projects of global governance are everywhere embattled, this book showcases exciting scholarship on law and governance today and offers fresh takes on prospects for working collectively to renew those legal and technological infrastructures. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.We are living through an era of unprecedented data-driven regulatory transformation. AI and algorithmic governance are rapidly altering how global problems are known and governed, and reconfiguring how people, places, and things are drawn into legal relation across diverse areas - from labour, media and communications, and global mobilities to environmental governance, security, and war. These changes are fostering new forms of power, inequality, and violence, and posing urgent conceptual and methodological challenges for law and technology research. Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars working at the forefront of creative thinking and research practice in this area. The book offers fresh takes on the prospects for working collectively to critique and renew those legal and technological infrastructures that order, divide, empower and immiserate across our data-driven world. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.