Law in Societies Cluster: Law’s Knowledge in Times of a Changing Climate

A key theme of Prof. Annelise Riles’ multi-faceted work is to explore law as a set of knowledge tools. This workshop builds on this theme and explores how the knowledge resources that law draws on are
shifting in the age of surveillance capitalism, which harnesses data as a tradeable commodity. The governments seek access to big data for solving public policy challenges, such as the climate crisis. But do potentially enhanced ways of representing social worlds also enhance state law’s capacity of socio-legal ordering? What are the risks of climate smart technologies?