Idea 04 // Evidence, Knowledge & New Technologies
Research Idea | 04
Evidence, Knowledge & New Technologies
This research investigates how digital transformation is reshaping the production of human-rights evidence and the making of legal truth. It considers satellite imagery, biometric data, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies not simply as neutral tools, but as systems that determine what can be seen, verified, and acted upon. The central questions are epistemic as well as legal: How is evidence produced? What comes to count as credible evidence? Which forms of knowledge are excluded or rendered invisible? And who has the authority to decide? The work therefore examines both the possibilities of new technologies and the power relations embedded in their use.
Key Themes
- 01.Geospatial Technologies
- 02.Biometric Governance
- 03.Crises over Evidence and the Law
- 04.Algorithmic Authority
Ongoing Projects
Following how technical evidence is produced, contested, and tested inside international courts.
Selected Works & Publications
Recent scholarship and public writing on evidence regimes, data infrastructures, and legal truth.
Technical Reports
Press Releases
Press release on new research warning that the expansion of visual and digital evidence technologies in human rights work can narrow what counts as justice and displace local accounts of harm.
Op-Eds