Category: Academic

Part A of the special journal issue “Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the Law” has been published in Law, Technology and Humans (Vol. 7 No. 1, 2025)! This publication brings together research developed during the Narratives, Frontier Technologies & the Law (NFT-L) Conference, held at Maastricht University Faculty of Law on 30–31 October and 1 November…

I want to express my deep appreciation to the Faculty of Law of Lund University for the kind welcome and support during my recent visit earlier this year. While at Lund, I focused on legal reasoning in marine environmental policy, especially examining the structure of decision-making processes and how we can enhance our understanding of…

Alongside my colleague Rohan Nanda (Institute of Data Science, Maastricht University), we published a short blogpost on the sensemaking workshop we held on March 28th at Maastricht University Faculty of Law. Our goal was simple but ambitious: to foster honest dialogue across disciplines on how AI can (or cannot) support compliance with marine environmental regulation.…

On the 29th of March, I had the opportunity to teach a session on legal research methods for the capacity-building course organised by the Center for Studies on the Law of the Sea at the University of São Paulo (CEDMAR/USP). It was a privilege to contribute to this initiative, and I am grateful to CEDMAR,…

I am thrilled to share that our project “Artificial Intelligence and Marine Environmental Policy: What Role for Automated Systems?” will be funded by the Netherlands Empirical Legal Studies Academy. This project has been a long-standing collaboration between Rohan Nanda and me, and we are now delighted to have the involvement of several colleagues, including external…

The colleagues of the Law & Popular Culture Network (Livia Solaro, Eline Couperus, Agustin Parise, and Arthur Willemse) at Maastricht University Faculty of Law have invited me to speak at their event “Whatever Happened to TikTok?” This event aims to bring together researchers to discuss the reasons and implications of the recent legal developments around TikTok, particularly its recent ban in the…

Last Friday (Dec 13th, 2024) at the University of Hasselt, we had the pleasure of presenting some remarks on the epistemic and anthropological complexities of climate change litigation. Focusing on Viveiros de Castro’s notions of ‘multinaturalism’ and ‘perspectivism’, André Nunes Chaib and I presented our work at the ‘Enhancing Compliance with Human Rights from Below…

Last December 10th, I had the pleasure of presenting my ongoing research on the technical panel at the ‘Waves of Change: Nurturing Ocean Resilience & Chartering Sustainable Futures’ Conference at the Villa College, FSL, The Maldives. In my paper, I examine the 2024 ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change to show how the tribunal has…