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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹

@roxanav.bsky.social
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Academic, writer, artist. Author of Cable Empires (a.co/d/0isFzRjZ) Associate Professor of Law at Capital Law School | Instructor, Harvard Summer School www.roxanav.com subsurfacegovernance.substack.com

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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Very exciting to receive the proofs of my book, Cable Empires! After so many years of researching, writing, and revising, it is wonderful to see the book taking its final shape. ☺️ Available for pre-order on Cambridge.org and Amazon (a.co/d/06vgbDdR). It should be out in early 2027!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/07/2026
“Cheyenne's Board of Public Utilities said in recent public notices that water discharged by Goat Systems, a Meta contractor at the site, contaminated the city's wastewater treatment facility with a rare bacterium.”
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A Wyoming city found a rare bacterium in wastewater tied to a Meta data center
Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, say a nearby Meta data center campus is responsible for contaminating part of its water recycling irrigation system.
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
On @nbc4i.com I discussed Ohio's data center hearings and whether foreign influence on social media is behind public opposition to data centers. My take: the evidence is thin, and I worry it'll be used to discredit legitimate concerns of local communities.
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Foreign Influence On Data Centers?
Some blame opposition on Chinese government
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Very pleased to have reviewed Samanth Subramanian's The Web Beneath the Waves for @lawfaremedia.org
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 05/06/2026
"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...
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She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.
Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New: Internal Microsoft planning documents say the company's goal is to "make people addicted" to its new Scout AI assistant www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...
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Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
How does the embrace of AI in universities play out? A cautionary tale from CA. A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart.
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
📢 On behalf of the ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology, I'm delighted to announce that today marks the launch of our new @opiniojuris.bsky.social symposium:📢 *Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide*
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Very much looking forward to discussing the Digital Divide in International Cyber Law in New York in October. #ILW25
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Unfortunately a still relevant piece I wrote 17 (!) years after I wrote it on the invocation of the preemptive use of force doctrine in relation to Iran's uranium enrichment program.
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Pre-print of a short new piece of mine on critical marine infrastructure (CMI) is up! I outline some of the international legal principles applicable to CMI generally, focusing on the Law of the Sea, laws applicable to CMI damage, and their limitations. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Glad to have had the opportunity to review The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power, for the journal Regulation & Governance. Pre-print available on @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Glad to have had the opportunity to review The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power, for the journal Regulation & Governance. Pre-print available on @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
i love that techbros reinvent buses every few years
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Register to join this timely discussion on June 2, in person or on line, with @katecrawford.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social, hosted by my Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study www.ias.edu/events/raree...
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The Right Understands That All Governance Is Data Governance lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...
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The Right Understands That All Governance Is Data Governance
The tech arm of Trump 2.0 isn't just reshaping government — it's consolidating control over the data infrastructure that makes modern governance possible. By centralizing data flows and gutting public...
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Absolutely beautiful talk by @ruha9.bsky.social. How to put technology in service of collective healing and worldmaking? Dystopia, Utopia, or UStopia? From Artificial Intelligence to Abundant Imagination www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIi...
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Tanner Lecture Two with Ruha Benjamin
YouTube video by Mahindra Humanities Center
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New work with Gavin Sullivan in the German Law Journal! Informed by unique access, we trace the design of Cerberus: an AI-based risk tool deployed by the UK Home Office. Cerberus, we argue, enacts a governmentality of suspicion that evades our regulatory repertoire. cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Legal Infrastructures of UK Border Control—Cerberus and the Dispositif of Speculative Suspicion | German Law Journal | Cambridge Core
The Legal Infrastructures of UK Border Control—Cerberus and the Dispositif of Speculative Suspicion - Volume 25 Issue 8
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Rohan Grey @rohangrey.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
🚨New Paper🚨 (hi law reviews!) ‘Digitizing the Fisc’ is the first article to address the current separation of fiscal powers crisis, exemplified by Trump's takeover of the Treasury's payments IT systems, through a tri-dimensional legal, political economic, & technological lens.
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başak 🧿 but 🪦🧟🎃🐈‍⬛🕯️🔮🌙👻⚰️🕷️💀🕸️🦇 @bashakito.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Some of you might have received the ESIL president's email this morning. What you might not know is that a group had been preparing to publish a letter that is open for signatures - most of the points of which are not addressed in this morning's email. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...
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Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Academic freedom lies at the heart of our profession and we must protect it at all costs. In consultation with colleagues, we have tried to articulate widespread concerns with respect to the upcoming ESIL conference in Berlin, in light of recent events.
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
📣Academic freedom is a fundamental pillar of our profession. Read our statement by over 150 international lawyers & ESIL members on troubling decision by Freie Universiteit Berlin to curtail academic freedom ahead of ESIL 2025. Letter is open for signature. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...
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Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Very happy to share the publication of this Special Issue on Law and Technology, guest edited with my wonderful colleagues of the @esil-sedi.bsky.social IG on Intl Law and Technology @roxanav.bsky.social, @barriesander.bsky.social, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social and Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi. 1/
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
📣Special Issue on Law & Technology, on the theme Is Fairness in Digital Governance a Trap?, available open access in the European Journal of Legal Studies, guest edited by the ESIL IG on International Law & Tech team.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/02/2025
🚨Elon Musk’s DOGE operatives are attempting to access confidential tax information — tax returns, bank data, Social Security numbers — for millions of Americans. Illegal access can lead to jail time under federal law. @wyden.senate.gov and I are investigating and fighting back.
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"The best place to view Los Angeles of the next millennium is from the ruins of its alternative future." Mike Davis Absolutely heartbreaking to watch my hometown burn from afar. 💔 Praying for everyone in LA. www.latimes.com/california/l...
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Firefighters continue to battle blazes as L.A. braces for more days of fire weather
Five people have died, more than 2,000 structures have burned and at least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders because of the wildfires burning across Los Angeles County. “We are absolutely ...
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Simulacra & Simulation
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The Estlink 2 submarine cable, which carries electricity between Finland and Estonia, was cut on Wednesday, Finland’s police said in a statement, the latest in a slew of disruptions to undersea infrastructure that are being investigated as acts of sabotage. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
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Finland Seizes Ship After Undersea Cable Is Cut
The country’s prime minister said the incident, the latest in a series of disruptions to undersea infrastructure, underscored the danger of a so-called Russian shadow fleet.
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
A little Christmas Eve treat: French apple tart
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
AI is not replacing labor but creating new forms of human labor. If AI is being sold as more efficient and cost-saving, it’s a lie. It’s a resource intensive algorithmic system that is creating new costs and harms. In the health care context, those harms can be devastating.
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Triantafyllos Kouloufakos @tkouloufakos.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Since I cannot find one, here is a starter pack for the slightly niche topic of every aspect of PIL and the interwebs. Please feel free to send me so I can add you :D
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Cambridge University Press - Law @cambup-law.cambridge.org · 20/12/2024
#ICYMI: Read the latest volume of the Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting here: 📚 cup.org/3ZXILol @ajil.bsky.social  #InternationalLaw
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting: Volume 117 - | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting - Volume 117 -
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Graded 8 exams and 1 essay today. Please clap.
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Thomas Streinz @streinz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Check out @roxanav.bsky.social's paper on "algorithmic environmentality" which will appear in the same volume: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Algorithmic Environmentality: Data Infrastructures in Global Environmental Governance
As international law grapples with the intractable problem of climate change, there is an increasing turn to technological governance techniques in the form of
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Thomas Streinz @streinz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Who decides what we know about the ocean? In a new #IILJ working paper Angelina Fisher, Benedict Kingsbury, and I explore the governance of science data infrastructures through a deep dive (pun intended) into the governance of the Argo floats array: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Sensoring the Oceans: The Argo Floats Array in the Governance of Science Data Infrastructures
<p><span>What role do governance arrangements, background legal rules, and the core infrastructures play in enabling data collection, determining what “ocean da
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Accurate.
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
First time writing a book. Will it ever feel "done"?
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Sorry to cross-post from The Bad Place, but this is certainly intriguing. Russians on a Chinese flagged merchant vessel pursued and boarded by Danish Navy on suspicion of cable damage.
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Heraclitus, 500 BC
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John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com · 19/11/2024
#Germany and #Finland "deeply concerned" about severed undersea cable on.ft.com/4hWs2c4
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Germany and Finland ‘deeply concerned’ about severed undersea cable
[FREE TO READ] Foreign ministers do not rule out sabotage as part of Russia’s ‘hybrid warfare’
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I made a first attempt, there are DEFINITELY people missing, so I PROMISE this does not arbitrate who is inside and outside of LPE! You can reply to be added or DM me, also feel free to suggest other people, etc. go.bsky.app/P2sMKhK
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
Two more days to submit abstracts for our agora proposal & pre-conference workshop CFP on "When Renewal Repeats: The Dis/Continuities of International Law and Technology"! Deadline: 23 January
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
Property Law profs: do you incorporate issues around data, cryptocurrencies, and/ or short term housing/ Airbnb? If so, any recommendations on teaching materials for 1Ls?
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Roxana Vatanparast 🌹 @roxanav.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
Thrilled to announce our agora proposal & pre-conference workshop CFP on "When Renewal Repeats: The Dis/Continuities of International Law and Technology." Submit your abstract by 23 January. Organized by the ESIL Interest Group on International Law & Technology: esil-sedi.eu/call-for-pap...
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Rachel Griffin @rachelgriffin.eurosky.social · 24/10/2023
🔥🔥 call for papers 🔥 🔥 calling all ECRs working on tech law & related topics: sciences po law & tech group is hosting the next Junges Digitales Recht conference on the 6-7 June 2024 and it promises to be unmissable details here! 👉 www.sciencespo.fr/ecole-droit/... reposts much appreciated 🙏
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Young Digital Law Conference 2024: Conflicts & Communities in Digital Law
Call for papers (The deadline for submissions is the 19th January 2024)
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Law Scholars letter urging a ceasefire picked up by the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/…
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US legal scholars urge Biden to seek immediate ceasefire from Israel
Letter signed by 178 members of US’s most prestigious law faculties calls Israeli reaction to Hamas attack ‘a moral catastrophe’
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Jennifer Cobbe @jennifercobbe.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Reading lists for my lectures on the Cambridge LLM module Law, Technology, and Society - a thread
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michael veale @michae.lv · 09/10/2023
As term gets underway you can find my half-year module in Internet Law and Policy at UCL Laws (almost all Open Access) here. It's usually 20 weeks not 10 weeks but I have an eagerly awaited sabbatical in Term 2. Please share yours if you have one! www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/syl...
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