Publications

Publications

A selection of writing on international law, technology, and infrastructure.

Book

Monograph · Forthcoming
Cable Empires: The Co-Production of Infrastructure, Technology, and International Law
Cambridge University Press · forthcoming
A history and theory of the relationship between communications infrastructure, empire, and international law — from submarine telegraph cables to the fiber-optic systems underpinning today's digital economy.
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Works in Progress

3 projects
Forthcoming 2027
Article · Invited Symposium
Allocating Computational Power: Experimental Regulation and the Governance of AI Futures
Invited article in symposium
Forthcoming 2026
Book Chapter
Submarine Cables & Public-Private Power
in Civil and Military Law (René Sève ed., Lefebvre-Dalloz)
In Progress
Article
From the "Missing Link" to the Digital Divide: Infrastructural Inequalities and International Law
Working paper

Articles

10 articles
2025
Editorial · Peer-Reviewed
Is Fairness in Digital Governance a Trap?
European Journal of Legal Studies · Symposium Editorial
with Stefania di Stefano, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Barrie Sander & Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
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2024
Article
Internet Infrastructure and Global Politics: The Role and Impact of Technical Standards on Digital Global Governance
117 Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting
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2024
Article
David Dudley Field and the Technological Sensibility of International Law Codification
52(1) Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 67
Journal → SSRN
2023
Article · Invited
Digital Monetary Constitutionalism: The Democratic Potential of Monetary Pluralism and Polycentric Governance
30(2) Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 165
Journal → SSRN
2021
Article · Invited Symposium
The Code of Data Capital: A Distributional Analysis of Law in the Global Data Economy
1/2021 juridikum — Austria's Critical Law Review 98
Journal → SSRN
2020
Article · Peer-Reviewed
Designed to Serve Mankind? The Politics of the GDPR as a Global Standard and the Limits of Privacy
80(4) Heidelberg Journal of International Law 819
PDF → SSRN
2020
Article
Data Governance and the Elasticity of Sovereignty
46(1) Brooklyn Journal of International Law 1
Journal → SSRN
2020
Article
Data Waste
61 Harvard International Law Journal Online
with Elettra Bietti
Journal → SSRN
2020
Article · Featured
The Infrastructures of the Global Data Economy: Undersea Cables and International Law
61 Harvard International Law Journal Online
featured in The Syllabus
Journal → SSRN
2008
Note
International Law Versus the Preemptive Use of Force: Racing to Confront the Specter of a Nuclear Iran
31 Hastings International & Comparative Law Review 783

Book Chapters

3 chapters
Forthcoming 2026
Chapter
Algorithmic Environmentality: Data Infrastructures in Global Environmental Governance
in Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule (Fleur Johns, Gavin Sullivan & Dimitri Van Den Meerssche eds., Cambridge University Press)
Publisher → SSRN
2025
Chapter
Cables, Pipelines, and Power: International Laws Governing Critical Marine Infrastructure
in Infrastructure, Grids, and Networks: The Challenge Ahead, Amid Security and Efficiency (Carlo Secchi & Alessandro Gili eds., Ledizioni LediPublishing)
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2023
Chapter
Data Waste: The Environmental and Democratic Problems Associated with Data-Driven Infrastructures
in Wastiary 18–24 (Michael Picard et al. eds., UCL Press)
with Elettra Bietti

Guest-Edited Special Issues

2 issues
2026
Special Issue · Peer-Reviewed
When Renewal Repeats? International Lawmaking in a Digital Era
Computer Law and Security Review
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2025
Special Issue · Peer-Reviewed
Is Fairness in Digital Governance a Trap?
European Journal of Legal Studies · Symposium
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Book Reviews

3 reviews
Forthcoming 2026
Review
Review of The Web Beneath the Waves: The Fragile Cables That Connect Our World
Lawfare
2025
Review
Review of The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power
19 Regulation & Governance
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2017
Review
Review of The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
8(2) Journal of Human Rights & The Environment 305
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Other Publications

2 pieces
2019
Essay
Designed to Serve Mankind? The Politics of the General Data Protection Regulation
Völkerrechtsblog (May 2019)
doi: 10.17176/20190529-121845-0
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2008
Practitioner
The Copyright Act's Preemption of Right of Publicity Claims
25 Communications Lawyer (July 2008)
with James Chadwick
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