Publication
Is Fairness in Digital Governance a Trap?
A new symposium with the European Journal of Legal Studies edited by Barrie Sander, Assistant Professor of International Law, together with Stefania Di Stefano, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, and Roxana Vatanparast, brings together a collection of perspectives to unpack different facets and functions of the language of fairness in digital governance.
- Author
- Barrie Sander, Stefania Di Stefano, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Dimitri Van Den Meerssche & Roxana Vatanparast
- Date
- 14 February 2025
- Links
- Read the full article here
The symposium aims to contribute to existing scholarship by moving beyond a concern with algorithmic fairness and liberal norms of non-discrimination to critically examine the broader functions of the concept of fairness in the digital governance landscape around the world – whether in terms of the limits of procedural fairness as a means of addressing questions of online platform governance, the concepts of fairness implicitly embedded in different narratives related to digital health governance, or the limits of the concept of fairness as a means of appraising the deployment of machine learning technologies in modern warfare. Each paper speaks from a distinct observational viewpoint, identifies different traps that accompany the vocabulary of fairness in particular technological contexts, and offers distinct outlooks for digital governance going forward.