CALL FOR PAPERS: THE ROLE OF LAW IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIETIES, VOLUME VII, 2026
ISSUE EDITORS: Christoph Burchard (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Center for Critical Computational Studies) & Susana Aires de Sousa (Faculty of Law, UCILeR, Univ Coimbra)
This special issue explores how law functions within, through, and against
computational regimes. Law operates within such regimes when it adapts to their
operational dynamics; through them when it becomes encoded into platform
governance or automated procedures; and against them when it seeks to resist the
epistemic, normative, or distributive implications of computation. At stake is not
only the question of whether law can regulate these systems, but also whether it
retains its function as a public, accountable, and contestable site of ordering in an
age increasingly governed by computational technologies and their embedded
normative orders.
We invite contributions that engage with one or more of the following lines of inquiry,
each oriented toward understanding the tensions, adaptations, and potentials of
law and (for/in/against) computational conditions.
We welcome contributions from legal scholars, political theorists, STS researchers,
critical data scientists, and others concerned with the future of law and
computational constellations. Submissions may be theoretical or empirical,
doctrinal or experimental, and should aim to explore how law is both challenged by
and potentially transformative of the computational societies we now inhabit.
Submission Guidelines
Submission of Abstracts (of 300 words) should be addressed to Christoph Burchard
(Burchard@jur.uni-frankfurt.de and sekretariat.burchard@jura.uni-frankfurt.de)
and Susana Aires de Sousa (susanaas@fd.uc.pt) until 31 December 2025.
For more details, refer here
