New visitor at CECS - Andrew Mazibrada
Andrew Mazibrada recently submitted his PhD thesis to the Faculty of Law at the University of Copenhagen. His thesis examines whether a right to protection from the adverse effects of scientific and technological development can be interpreted from article 15 of the International Covenant for Economic Social and Cultural Rights. Having justified such an interpretation, his thesis elaborates a legal regime of harm prevention and precaution under article 15, qualified by obligations of due diligence, setting out the legal provenance and justification for such a regime in international human rights law. It then draws on existing regimes of harm prevention, particularly in international environmental law, to specify the obligations of prevention and precaution that comprise it. During his stay, he will be working on articles to be published from his PhD research.
He will also be working on wider research at the intersection of new and emerging technologies and international law, particularly international human rights law. In particular, that research will consider how international human rights law deals with uncertain future risks, especially those posed by new and emerging technologies. A principal focus concerns the global governance of advanced artificial intelligence systems and related technologies, as well as regulatory and institutional measures currently being proposed or adopted at the international level. In addition, with Associate Professor Hin-Yan Liu, his research will consider whether approaches taken to the regulation and governance of advanced artificial intelligence systems can inform and reorient similar discourses in respect of climate geoengineering.