27 November 2025
Digital Visas Risk Deepening Discriminatory Borders
The deep challenge of equality by design is that it is no mere technical matter. Underlying equality law commitments is a contextual assessment of the impact of distributive systems on disadvantaged groups. This goes beyond the standard approach to “debiasing” in computer science, as the impactful contribution of Sandra Wachter and her team has demonstrated. However, applying these insights to the discriminatory borders requires even greater efforts. Continue reading >>
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27 November 2025
Introduction to the Symposium on Algorithmic Fairness for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
How are digital and algorithmic systems reshaping asylum and refugee protection in Europe? Based at the Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, the AFAR project brings together scholars across Europe to map the growing use of “newtech” in asylum and border governance—from automated decision-making to digital evidence and biometric tools. This symposium traces the project’s findings. Continue reading >>
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27 August 2019
Pseudo-Legal Justice
On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K., a member of the Council of the Anti-corruption Agency of Montenegro, was dismissed of his duties, by the very same body that appointed him: the Parliament of Montenegro. This could be the first sentence of a novel written by Franz Kafka if he was with us today. While Kafka’s Josef K. was arrested and left to roam free through a court building to find a courtroom in which his destiny would be determined, Josef K. in this story is in a similarly peculiar situation: He does not know which court in Montenegro he should appeal to and present his grievances. This Kafkaesque reality is the result of a questionable interpretation of the law by Montenegro’s Supreme Court – just another piece in the demise of the country’s rule of law. Continue reading >>
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