Podcast appearances and mentions of erik castr

Tuotantokautensa aikana tämä podcast on tarkastellut digitaalisten alustajättien vallan eri ulottuvuuksia lukuisista näkökulmista aina lainopillisista taloudellisiin, maailmanpoliittisista henkilökohtaisiin. Nyt on aika kuitenkin palata kiinni ensimmäisten jaksojen käsittelemiin Euroopan Unionin alustojen vallan suitsimiseksi kasaamiin säädöspaketteihin. Kauden päätösjakso maalaa isoa kuvaa EU:n uusista aloitteista alustajättien sääntelemiseksi tilanteessa, jossa europarlamentin kausi lähestyy loppuaan ja isot säädöspaketit digimarkkinoiden, datan ja tekoälyn sääntelemiseksi on saatu Brysselissä maaliin. Mitä on saavutettu, mitä jäi uupumaan? Murtuuko amerikkalaisten ja kiinalaisten digijättien valta Euroopassa, vai jäävätkö muutokset näpertelyksi? Miten uudistukset näkyvät tavallisille kansalaisille ja kuluttajille? Näistä kysymyksistä keskustelemassa on Helsingin yliopiston oikeustieteellisen tiedekunnan Erik Castrén -instituutin väitöskirjatutkija Miikka Hiltunen, jonka väitöskirja käsittelee EU:n aloitteita sosiaalisen median ja digitaalisten alustojen sääntelemiseksi.  Alustojen valta -podcast on osa Helsingin yliopiston valtiotieteellisessä tiedekunnassa toimivaa tutkimushanketta, jota rahoittaa Helsingin sanomain säätiö. Toimittaja: Matti Ylönen Tuottaja: Toivo Hursti Musiikki: Pasi Savonranta ja Pietu Korhonen Matin kirja Yhtiövalta alustatalouden aikakaudella (2021) nyt myös äänikirjana! ⁠⁠⁠⁠Kustantajan sivuilla⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Bookbeatissa⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Storytelissä⁠⁠⁠⁠ ja muissa yleisimmissä äänikirjapalveluissa Jakson lukemisto (viittausjärjestyksessä): Alustojen valta -Instagram-tili Korkea-Aho, E. (2021). Legal lobbying: The evolving (but hidden) role of lawyers and law firms in the EU public affairs market. German Law Journal, 22(1), 65-84. Hiltunen, M. (22.1.2021). Komission esitys asetuksesta digitaalisia palveluja koskevaksi lainsäädännöksi – evoluutio vai vallankumous? [blogikirjoitus]. Perustuslakiblogi. Hiltunen, M. (2022). Social Media Platforms within Internal Market Construcition: Patterns of Reproduction in EU Platform Law. German Law Journal. 23(9), 1226–1245. Miettinen, T. P. A. (2017). Lain valta : ordoliberalismi ja eurooppalaisen talouskonstituution juuret. Oikeuspoliittinen yhdistys - Rättspolitiska föreningen Demla ry, Oikeus- ja yhteiskuntatieteellinen yhdistys ry (OYY). The Balanced Economy Project -hanke Tekstivastine yliopiston sivustolla --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alustojen-valta/message

Lecture summary: This research examines international law’s longstanding entanglement with communications infrastructure. There is increasing concern regarding the rise of private global power in the form of global digital platforms and their model of information capitalism. This paper responds by focusing on historical connections between international law and infrastructure as a means of examining their relationship in the global communications context. This reveals a longer trajectory to current interest in information capitalism’s effects on international life. Current concerns focus on the power of private digital platforms and the networked communicative infrastructure they maintain for the global economy. Introducing an historical perspective to such debates highlights infrastructure’s ongoing connections to violence and exploitation. This points to the wider and constitutive role of infrastructure in international life and underscores the need to address the blending of public and private forms of power in global governance. While the technologies driving change and re-appraisal within the contemporary international legal imagination are clearly distinct, viewing infrastructure as regulation in the current day requires us to confront continuing patterns of inequality and discrimination, which in turn can be connected with a longer international legal history. Such a focus can also help to explain how the traditional form of international law as a limited system of positive rules and of managerial ordering came to dominate the legal imagination and entrench a state-centrism which now appears anachronistic in light of the reality of private power and its concentration on the international plane. Dr Daniel Joyce is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. He specialises in international law, media law and human rights. Daniel is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute at the University of Helsinki, an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute and a member of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation. His monograph Informed Publics, Media and International Law was published by Hart in 2020. He is a visiting fellow at LSE Law School from September 2023 until March 2024.

Lecture summary: This research examines international law's longstanding entanglement with communications infrastructure. There is increasing concern regarding the rise of private global power in the form of global digital platforms and their model of information capitalism. This paper responds by focusing on historical connections between international law and infrastructure as a means of examining their relationship in the global communications context. This reveals a longer trajectory to current interest in information capitalism's effects on international life.Current concerns focus on the power of private digital platforms and the networked communicative infrastructure they maintain for the global economy. Introducing an historical perspective to such debates highlights infrastructure's ongoing connections to violence and exploitation. This points to the wider and constitutive role of infrastructure in international life and underscores the need to address the blending of public and private forms of power in global governance.While the technologies driving change and re-appraisal within the contemporary international legal imagination are clearly distinct, viewing infrastructure as regulation in the current day requires us to confront continuing patterns of inequality and discrimination, which in turn can be connected with a longer international legal history. Such a focus can also help to explain how the traditional form of international law as a limited system of positive rules and of managerial ordering came to dominate the legal imagination and entrench a state-centrism which now appears anachronistic in light of the reality of private power and its concentration on the international plane.Dr Daniel Joyce is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. He specialises in international law, media law and human rights. Daniel is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute at the University of Helsinki, an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute and a member of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation. His monograph Informed Publics, Media and International Law was published by Hart in 2020. He is a visiting fellow at LSE Law School from September 2023 until March 2024.

Lecture summary: This research examines international law's longstanding entanglement with communications infrastructure. There is increasing concern regarding the rise of private global power in the form of global digital platforms and their model of information capitalism. This paper responds by focusing on historical connections between international law and infrastructure as a means of examining their relationship in the global communications context. This reveals a longer trajectory to current interest in information capitalism's effects on international life.Current concerns focus on the power of private digital platforms and the networked communicative infrastructure they maintain for the global economy. Introducing an historical perspective to such debates highlights infrastructure's ongoing connections to violence and exploitation. This points to the wider and constitutive role of infrastructure in international life and underscores the need to address the blending of public and private forms of power in global governance.While the technologies driving change and re-appraisal within the contemporary international legal imagination are clearly distinct, viewing infrastructure as regulation in the current day requires us to confront continuing patterns of inequality and discrimination, which in turn can be connected with a longer international legal history. Such a focus can also help to explain how the traditional form of international law as a limited system of positive rules and of managerial ordering came to dominate the legal imagination and entrench a state-centrism which now appears anachronistic in light of the reality of private power and its concentration on the international plane.Dr Daniel Joyce is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. He specialises in international law, media law and human rights. Daniel is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute at the University of Helsinki, an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute and a member of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation. His monograph Informed Publics, Media and International Law was published by Hart in 2020. He is a visiting fellow at LSE Law School from September 2023 until March 2024.

Lecture summary: This research examines international law's longstanding entanglement with communications infrastructure. There is increasing concern regarding the rise of private global power in the form of global digital platforms and their model of information capitalism. This paper responds by focusing on historical connections between international law and infrastructure as a means of examining their relationship in the global communications context. This reveals a longer trajectory to current interest in information capitalism's effects on international life.Current concerns focus on the power of private digital platforms and the networked communicative infrastructure they maintain for the global economy. Introducing an historical perspective to such debates highlights infrastructure's ongoing connections to violence and exploitation. This points to the wider and constitutive role of infrastructure in international life and underscores the need to address the blending of public and private forms of power in global governance.While the technologies driving change and re-appraisal within the contemporary international legal imagination are clearly distinct, viewing infrastructure as regulation in the current day requires us to confront continuing patterns of inequality and discrimination, which in turn can be connected with a longer international legal history. Such a focus can also help to explain how the traditional form of international law as a limited system of positive rules and of managerial ordering came to dominate the legal imagination and entrench a state-centrism which now appears anachronistic in light of the reality of private power and its concentration on the international plane.Dr Daniel Joyce is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney. He specialises in international law, media law and human rights. Daniel is an Affiliated Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute at the University of Helsinki, an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute and a member of the Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation. His monograph Informed Publics, Media and International Law was published by Hart in 2020. He is a visiting fellow at LSE Law School from September 2023 until March 2024.

The Russian war against the Ukraine has not only come at a tremendous human cost, it destroyed vital natural resources, including forests, soil and water and fragile ecosystems that will take decades to recover or repair. The implications of damage and toxic contamination from fighting are especially grave given that Ukraine is home to 35 per cent of Europe's biodiversity and around a quarter of the earth's chernozem, a rich, highly fertile soil type. As the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reports that hundreds of protected areas are or have been under occupation, including up to 23 national parks and nature and biosphere reserves (SIPRI). Pursuing accountability and restitution for conflict related environmental damages has long been a neglected issue in international law and the prosecution of war crimes. And while recent efforts, to strengthen the international normative and legal framework, both, at the level of the United Nations and Humanitarian Agencies, such as the Red Cross, much remains to be done. There is growing pressure to include ‘ecocide' as an international crime under the Rome Statute. Yet the International Criminal Court does not currently recognize the mass destruction of flora and fauna, or the poisoning of air or water resources as an international crime. Will the war in the Ukraine be a turning point for the lack of accountability for violence against nature in armed conflict? And what are the main challenges in documenting and assembling evidence for possible court proceedings and to better protect and enforce  reparations for environmental war crimes? Lennard de Klerk is Dutch national with 25+ years experience in climate change topics in Central and Eastern Europe. After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he started an initiative to estimate the environmental impact of this war, including its long term effects on carbon emissions. Lennard graduated from Delft University of Technology and during his career lived in Moscow, Berlin, Kyiv and Budapest . He currently runs a climate neutral holiday resort (Irota EcoLodge) in Northern Hungary. Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos is a post-doctoral researcher with the Toxic Crimes Project of the Erik Castrén Institute at the University of Helsinki, and a Researcher with the Asser Institute. He is currently visiting the Law School of the University of Athens. Formerly, Stavros was the Legal and Policy Analyst of the Conflict and Environment Observatory, a UK-based NGO aiming to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of armed conflict. He obtained his PhD degree in international law from the European University Institute and his scholarship focuses on the legal aspects of environmental protection during and after armed conflict. Monika Halkort is a social scientist and journalist in Vienna. She currently also teaches at the University of Applied Arts as part of the master program ‚Applied Human Rights and the Arts`. Next to her academic work, she regularly produces contributions for the Ö1 programs Radiokolleg, Hörbilder and Diagonal. The thematic focus of her work is the historical interconnections of colonialism, technology and knowledge production and how they continue to shape ideas of sustainability, planetary thinking and environmental justice today.

In this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie is joined by Dr Eve Massingham and Associate Professor Rain Liivoja to grapple with the findings of the Brereton Report. The report is shocking: it found credible evidence of 39 murders of civilians and prisoners by, or on the instructions of, members of the Australian special forces which were then covered up.  Simon, Eve and Rain talk about the context of the Report and the allegations, and the potential consequences for the individuals who allegedly carried out these acts. They explain what war crimes are and how they differ from domestic crimes, the concept of command responsibility, and what the sentence for any conviction might be. They also how the Australian government might respond to the wrongdoing and ensure the Afghan victims receive justice.Rain Liivoja is an Associate Professor at The University of Queensland Law School, where he leads the Law and the Future of War research group. Rain also holds the title of Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki, where he is affiliated with the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights.Eve Massingham is a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Queensland Law School. Eve's current research focuses on the diverse ways in which the law constrains or enables autonomous functions of military platforms, systems and weapons. She is the co-editor of Ensuring Respect for International Humanitarian Law (Routledge, 2020) and she has published a number of book chapters and journal articles in the fields of international humanitarian law and international law and the use of force. Further reading:The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry (The Brereton Report)Eve Massingham, 'Australian Special Forces War Crimes Prosecutions: Crucial but Just One Aspect When It Comes to Respect for the Laws of War' Opinio Juris (20 November 2020)Douglas Guilfoyle, 'Australian war crimes in Afghanistan: The Brereton Report' EJIL!Talk (23 November 2020)David Letts, ‘Allegations of murder and ‘blooding' in Brereton report now face many obstacles to prosecution' The Conversation (19 November 2020)Matthew Doran, 'Afghanistan war crimes report released by Defence Chief Angus Campbell includes evidence of 39 murders by special forces' ABC Australia (19 November 2020)Christopher Knaus and Rory Callinan, ''We expected better from Australia': shock and anger in Afghanistan at war crimes report' The Guardian (20 November 2020)Rain Liivoja, Criminal Jurisdiction Over Armed Forces Abroad (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

"Toxic Crimes Project: Legal Activism Against Environmental Destruction in the Conflict in Eastern Ukraine" with Dr. Freek van der Vet, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. LECTURE DESCRIPTION: War often destroys the environment – either directly when armies poison foliage as a military strategy or indirectly, when toxins leak from bombed industrial sites. In the “Toxic Crimes Project,” we examine how rights advocates—lawyers, experts, and activists—protect the environment from wartime environmental destruction, how they promote the idea that the environment has legally enforceable rights, and how they expand international legal mechanisms (at the ICC and ILC) to protect the environment during war. In this lecture, Van der Vet presents case studies from the project. Based on several pilot-interviews with lawyers and NGO activists, the lecture examines legal activism against environmental destruction during the conflict in Eastern Ukraine. The Donbas region in Eastern Ukraine is one of Europe’s most heavily industrialized areas. Before the conflict broke out, the region already coped with heavy pollution from its industry and coal sector. Some of these heavy industry sites have been unstable or fraught with safety issues. Many of these industrial sites in the Donbas region are located in the immediate vicinity of the front line of the conflict. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has damaged many of these sites, for instance the Zasyadko coal mine and the Lysychyansk oil refinery, polluting the air and contaminating water supplies, and, as a result, damaging human health and ecosystems for years to come. SPEAKER DESCRIPTION: Dr. Freek van der Vet is a University Researcher at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki Finland. Van der Vet’s research interests include international litigation at human rights courts, legal mobilization under authoritarianism, and environmental destruction during war. He is the Principal Investigator (PI) of “Toxic Crimes Project: Legal Activism against Wartime Environmental Destruction” (funded by Kone Foundation and Academy of Finland); a research group investigating how lawyers and experts seek accountability for wartime environmental destruction. In his previous projects, he worked on legal mobilization against disinformation and trolling in Russia, the legal defense of treason suspects and NGOs in Russia, and litigation at the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of victims from the Chechen conflicts. He is a member and co-founder of ActInCourts (Activists in International Courts; funded by SSHRC, Canada), a network of scholars and human rights practitioners working on regional human rights courts. His academic work has appeared in Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Europe-Asia Studies, The International Journal of Human Rights, Social & Legal Studies, Human Rights Review, Review of Central and East European Law, among others. He completed visiting fellowships at the University of British Columbia (Canada) and the University of Copenhagen (Denmark).

In this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Associate Professor Rain Liivoja on how the law of armed conflict deals with new technology. The conversation includes an overview of how international law regulates war and the role of pragmatism in the development of this law. They discuss some of the key points in the history of the law of armed conflict and some contemporary challenges, including autonomy in weapons, human enhancement and cyber operations.Rain Liivoja is an Associate Professor at the University of Queensland Law School, where he leads the Law and the Future of War research group. Rain also holds the title of Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki, where he is affiliated with the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights.Links to further reading:Rain Liivoja, 'Technological change and the evolution of the law of war' (2016) 97 International Review of the Red Cross 900, 1157-1177. Martin van Creveld, Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present (1991, Touchstone).Max Boot, War Made New:  Weapons, Warriors and the Making of the Modern World (2007, Penguin Putnam Inc).

Animée par Gilles Menegaldo, professeur émérite en littérature américaine et études cinématographiques, FORELL, Université de Poitiers Avec : - Antoine Buchet, magistrat en disponibilité, membre du service juridique de la Commission européenne - Louis Daubresse, doctorant en cinéma, chargé de cours, Université Paris 3 - Marion Poirson-Dechonne, maître de conférences en cinéma, RIRRA, Université PAUL Valéry Montpellier 3 - Despina Sinou, docteur en droit public, enseignant-chercheur, CEJEP, Université de La Rochelle - Immi Tallgren, post-doctorante à l’institut Erik Castrén pour le droit international et droits de l’homme, Université d’Helsinki, chercheuse associée auprès du séminaire interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques, Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge hosts a regular Friday lunchtime lecture series on key areas of International Law. Previous subjects have included UN peacekeeping operations, the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the crime of agression, whaling, children and military tribunals, and theories and practices for proving individual responsibility criminal responsibility for genocide and crimes against humanity. This recording is presented on iTunes U as a video file. This lecture, entitled 'The Politics of International Law', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Thursday 26th January 2012 by Professor Martti Koskenniemi, Professor of International Law and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute, University of Helsinki. For more information about the series, please see the LCIL website at www.lcil.cam.ac.uk

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge hosts a regular Friday lunchtime lecture series on key areas of International Law. Previous subjects have included UN peacekeeping operations, the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the crime of agression, whaling, children and military tribunals, and theories and practices for proving individual responsibility criminal responsibility for genocide and crimes against humanity. This lecture, entitled 'The Politics of International Law', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Thursday 26th January 2012 by Professor Martti Koskenniemi, Professor of International Law and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute, University of Helsinki. For more information about the series, please see the LCIL website at www.lcil.cam.ac.uk

Professor Koskenniemi was the Visiting Goodhart Professor of Legal Science for 2008 - 2009 and was interviewed on two occasions by Lesley Dingle. The first interview was held in the Squire Law Libary (December 2008), while the second was in the Goodhart Lodge (August 2009). In the interviews, Professor Koskenniemi reflects first on becoming the annual Goodhart Professor, and then at the end of his tenure on his experiences in the position, including some comments on publications that appeared during this time. Martti Koskenniemi is Professor of International Law and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcript of those recordings: - First Interview (2 December 2008): Reflections on Becoming the Goodhart Professor; - Second Interview (18 August 2009): Reflections on his time as Goodhart Professor. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/

Professor Koskenniemi was the Visiting Goodhart Professor of Legal Science for 2008 - 2009 and was interviewed on two occasions by Lesley Dingle. The first interview was held in the Squire Law Libary (December 2008), while the second was in the Goodhart Lodge (August 2009). In the interviews, Professor Koskenniemi reflects first on becoming the annual Goodhart Professor, and then at the end of his tenure on his experiences in the position, including some comments on publications that appeared during this time. Martti Koskenniemi is Professor of International Law and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Helsinki. The interviews were recorded, and the audio version is available on this website with transcript of those recordings: - First Interview (2 December 2008): Reflections on Becoming the Goodhart Professor; - Second Interview (18 August 2009): Reflections on his time as Goodhart Professor. For more information, see the Squire website at http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent_scholars/