Publications

Deceptive designs, often called dark patterns, are everywhere. Deceptive designs are designs of user interfaces that manipulate, confuse, disorient, or deceive individuals to make…

This paper investigates how surveillance capitalism enables a convergence of state authoritarianism and digital monopolies, posing an existential threat to fragile democracies by…

In a piece for The Economist,…

With the current political climate and advances in artificial intelligence (AI), the stakes are higher than ever to advance new laws that make technology work for the people and…

Surveillance capitalism represents a new form of capitalism that converts human behavior into data for tracking, analysis, and monetization. Yet this framing obscures the deeper…

The TJET project offers a comprehensive database for exploring the supply of transitional justice (TJ) in every country of the world. TJET provides detailed descriptive…

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, sparking global concern over its risks, from misinformation and wealth concentration to discrimination, surveillance, and…

After describing the Genocide Convention, this paper first considers how the Counterfactual Test might help in determining whether an act was committed with genocidal intent even…

Despite significant advances in policies to address conflict-related sexual violence, it continues to occur in conflicts around the world, sometimes on a massive scale. This…

Advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of generating humanlike text and multimodal content are now widely available. Here we ask what impact this will have on the…