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Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle
About the Event:
The Law, Technology, and Development Learning Circle brings together staff and students across the University of Warwick who are interested in the regulatory, governance, human rights, and political economy challenges of technology in/and on society. The group is coordinated by the Centre for Law, Regulation and Governance of the Global Economy (GLOBE), Warwick Law School and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) with the aim to create a space for sharing and discussing research and policy developments.
Through reading groups, events, and policy conversations the group aims to develop cross faculty collaborations that foreground Warwick’s law in context, and interdisciplinary research culture.
For more information on the group, please contact: Dr Siddharth De Souza (Siddharth.De-Souza@warwick.ac.uk) or Dr Serena Natile (Serena.Natile@warwick.ac.uk).
For logistical information about the events, please contact globe@warwick.ac.uk
Theme: Digital Vulnerability in Criminal Justice
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 12pm – 2pm
R.1.1.3, Ramphal Building
Reading: Digital Vulnerability in Criminal Justice:Vulnerable People and Communication Technologies (2026) Palgrave Macmillan by Carolyn Mackay.
This book is available Open Access and can be downloaded via this link.
The discussion will be led by Dr Lorna Cameron, Visiting Research fellow at CIM, and will include a short presentation followed by reflections from participants. You are encouraged to read the book, or part of it, prior to the meeting.
Carolyn McKay’s most recent book, released in January 2026, documents her ARC DECRA–funded project The Digital Criminal Justice Project: Vulnerability and the Digital Subject, begun in 2021 and coinciding with the Covid-19 pandemic and the rapid transformations it brought to criminal justice processes. The study draws on McKay’s observations, interviews, and surveys with criminal justice professionals who make up the trial court, and is therefore primarily an account of professional participation in digitalised proceedings.
Lorna Cameron is a recent PhD graduate and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at Warwick, with an original disciplinary background in architecture and design research.
Lunch will be provided.
Please email globe@warwick.ac.uk if you have any dietary or access requirements.
Image Credit: Amr Taha