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About André Dao
I am a postdoctoral research fellow with the Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law at the Melbourne Law School. I believe my colleague Adil Hasan Khan has already been in touch about the possibility of us hosting a special series on 'Corporations'. In my own research, I take a critical look at the encounter between international human rights law and digital data technologies. In my PhD thesis, I drew on Science & Technology Studies, and Law and Humanities scholarship, to understand the UN's 'turn' towards digital data technologies in its human rights work. I found that that 'turn' led to a datafication of human rights practice at the UN, while at the same time inviting Big Tech corporations to become central human rights actors. My postdoctoral research focuses on the history of IBM, and asks how an American technology company used legal techniques to travel 'southwards', that is, to the Global South, and what it brought with it when it arrived. I am also a novelist – my debut novel Anam was published by Penguin Random House in Australia, and will be published by Picador in the UK in August 2023. My interests therefore range across international law, critical scholarship on corporations, science and technology studies, critical data studies, and literary studies.NBN Episodes hosted by André:
March 24, 2025
The East India Company and the Politics of Knowledge
Joshua Ehrlich
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André Dao
Welcome to the Global Corporations Special Series on the Law Channel on the New Books Network. This Special Series is dedicated to interviews with sch…