Emerging Technologies and International Law: DAO and AI Research in the Context of Globalisation
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decentralized AI, inter-disciplinarity, emerging technologies, DAOs, globalization, critical microhistory and archeologyAbstract
The global political economy shaped by globalization is an environment that entails both potentials and limitations for research approaches. Important themes range from sustainable development goals, green transition, social justice disparities, technological issues to conflicts and complex emergencies. International law researchers deal with all these issues. International law and legal sciences as part of social sciences progress in a polysemic interplay with global trends. Research shapes values, beliefs and norms, and vice versa. To allow for the interplay in the creation of meaning by research activity on the one hand and cultural consciousnesses on the other, this paper discusses inter-disciplinarity – broadly understood – in research approaches using international legal research and emerging technologies, in particular artificial intelligence (AI) and decentralised autonomous organisations based on blockchain technology, as examplary fields and themes. Since all sciences are part of cultural life of societies, they are mutually embedded in and dynamically connected to other societal forces. Globalization is a transnational social force that comes about in a complex orchestration among other forces, institutions and phenomena whether legal, cultural, political, economic, social or all. To isolate it or its effects on a research theme would be extremely difficult if not outright impossible. Therefore, this paper discusses globalization as a necessary element in international legal research.
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