Biography:
Geoff holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a JD from Columbia Law School. His work is motivated by a critical concern for international practices in the public interest. He has a background in litigation and an interdisciplinary academic grounding in questions raised at points of interface among politics, security, economy and technology. For the last several years, he has focused on infrastructural and information technologies, including contemporary information flows, their normative effects, and their effects on international institutions and institutional practices. He has focused on ecologies of computational technologies featuring machine learning or AI components, as well as on the rising field of quantum information technologies. Most recently, he is focusing on the European Commission’s Digital Decade initiatives, for the novel issues of legal-governance that they raise, as well as their effect on international regimes and bedrock norms like sovereignty. Geoff’s attention to practice is matched with a clear theoretical bent, including recent work with Prof.dr. Isabel Feichtner addressing the constitutive work of international law in global processes of value production and extraction, as well as a long-standing interest in temporal dimensions of international law. He is an editor for the international legal theory section of the Leiden Journal of International Law and the Technology & Law section of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.
