Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule

Author: Fleur Johns; Gavin Sullivan; Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009425322

Published In: September 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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We are living through an era of unprecedented data-driven regulatory transformation. AI and algorithmic governance are rapidly altering how global problems are known and governed, and reconfiguring how people, places, and things are drawn into legal relation across diverse areas - from labour, media and communications, and global mobilities to environmental governance, security, and war. These changes are fostering new forms of power, inequality, and violence, and posing urgent conceptual and methodological challenges for law and technology research.

Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars working at the forefront of creative thinking and research practice in this area. The book offers fresh takes on the prospects for working collectively to critique and renew those legal and technological infrastructures that order, divide, empower and immiserate across our data-driven world.

This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Prologue: towards a critical algorithmology

Alain Pottage

1. Groping for the shape of things: an introduction

Fleur Johns, Gavin Sullivan and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche

Part I. Infrastructure, Imaginaries and Agency:

2. Platforms, data infrastructures, and infrastructure stacks

Julie Cohen

3. Digital border infrastructure and the search for agencies of the state

Jennifer Raso

Part II. Rationalities, Styles and Logics:

4. Lost in the loop – who is the 'human' of the human in the loop?

Jake Goldenfein