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  • CALL FOR PAPERS / SUBMISSIONS VOLUME VII (2027)

    2025-06-27

    THE ROLE OF LAW IN COMPUTATIONAL SOCIETIES

    ISSUE EDITORS: Christoph Burchard (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Center for Critical Computational Studies) & Susana Aires de Sousa (Faculty of Law, UCILeR, Univ Coimbra)

     

    Computation has become a central condition of contemporary governance. Algorithmic systems, platform infrastructures, and data-driven decision-making now structure key domains of public and private life—from criminal justice and education to migration, finance, and environmental regulation. As legal norms are increasingly shaped by, implemented through, or bypassed by computational systems, the role of law may be undergoing fundamental transformation.

    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.

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  • CALL FOR PAPERS / SUBMISSIONS VOLUME V (2025)

    2024-02-29

    RHIZOMATIC LAW: UNDERSTANDING THE LINEARITY AND PENDULUM OF LEGAL EVOLUTION

    GUEST EDITORS: Anne Wagner (Centre de Recherche Droits et Perspectives du droit (ULR 4487), équipe René Demogue - Lille University France)  & Sarah Marusek (Department of Political Science University of Hawai’i Hilo, USA)

    Our Special Issue delves into the intricate and dynamic nature of legal systems, contrasting concepts of linear progression with those of the perpetual pendulum in law. This exploration integrates the rhizomatic theory of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, proposed in 1987, which suggests a non-linear, network-like framework for understanding legal changes. It challenges conventional views of law as a hierarchy, instead presenting it as a complex web of interconnections where various factors, including political, cultural, economic, and social energies, interact in unpredictable ways. This approach acknowledges the multifaceted nature of legal evolution, encompassing both steady, predictable developments and cyclical, reactionary shifts.

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  • CALL FOR PAPERS / SUBMISSIONS VOLUME IV (2024)

    2024-02-29

    LEGALITY AND PROPORTIONALITY IN THE PERFORMANCE OF LAW

    ISSUE EDITOR: MAREK ZIRK-SADOWSKI

    UNIWERSYTET £ÓDZKI (University of £ódz)

    The fourth volume of Undecidabilities and Law is dedicated to the relationship between legality and proportionality in the context of practical performance (or realization) of law. To explain this issue, attention should be paid primarily to two very crucial issues, both for academic considerations in the field of the conflicting demands of political philosophy and legal philosophy, but also important for practical-normative dogmatic approaches as well as for the process of interpreting the law in practice by law-enforcing authorities.

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