Serena Natile

Reconciling Human Rights and Anti-Colonial Struggles: Towards a Redistributive Regulation of Digital Social Security Programs

Alexandre Petticlerc

David Eliot

The Noxious Datafication of the Housing Market

Suruchi Mazumdar

Rethinking Digital Humanitarianism in Rohingya Refugee Camps

Joris Joël Fomba Tala

When Protests Go Digital: Assessing the Legal Framework in the African Rights Law System

Matthew Canfield

Claiming Rights, Making Humans: Data Justice and Agrarian Worlds

Leander Stähler

Regulating Data Intermediaries: Manifesting Fundamental Rights or Recasting Public Utilities?

Dominique Carlon

The Power of Spam Policies: Shedding Light on Platforms as Commercial Enterprises in the Generative AI Era

Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew

A Third-World Critique of the Human Rights-Based Approach to Content Moderation

Stefania Di Stefano

The “Limits” of International Human Rights Law in Content Moderation: an Alternative Diagnosis

Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte

From Soft Law to Hard Law: Human Rights Impact Assessments in the Digital Services Act Era

Kebene Wodajo

Catherine McDonald

Platform Enabled Structural Harms & The Limits of the Current Accountability Regime

Petros Terzis

Joris van Hoboken

A Brussels Affect

Jelena Belic

Rachel Griffin

Henning Lahmann

Barrie Sander

The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms: Symposium Introduction

 held at Leiden University in January 2024, supported by the 

Global Transformations and Governance Challenges

 initiative. Amidst an emerging critical human rights scholarship in the field of platform governance, this symposium seeks to problematize assumptions that human rights are the natural or obvious legal and normative framework for this field, and to nurture more sustained self-reflexivity over their potential, limits and ideological implications.

The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms

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The Promise and Perils of Human Rights for Governing Digital Platforms