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Lu­isa Teresa Hedler Fer­reira Fjel­lander

Postdoc

Subjects
Law Digitalisation Artificial intelligence Value chains Infrastructure Human rights

Primary research areas

AI and Law

I am interested on how new technologies – from digitalization to generative AI – interact with the regulation of social life, from the use of AI by judges and lawyers in courtrooms to the ways in which new technologies challenge the current regulatory ecosystems regarding people’s rights and obligations. 

Temporality and Organizations

I am interested in how different organizations – governments, companies, NGOs – react to changes and pressures regarding time: efficiency imperatives, technologies that change the organization of time, or social pressures for speed.

Regulation of Global Value Chains

My current research project is on contemporary practices of GVC regulations, and especially how different perspectives (companies, governments, activists) communicate about and represent their supply chain management during professional trade fairs.

I observe what big changes in society reveal about our assumptions of how things work

I am a legal sociologist with a PhD from Copenhagen Business School. My doctoral dissertation, Time, Law and Tech: The Introduction of Algorithms to Courts of Law, explored how the integration of algorithms into the judiciary reshapes notions of time, efficiency, and risk, through a case study of Brazilian courts. 

Currently, I am a postdoctoral fellow on the ERC-funded project Global Value Chain Law: Constituting Connectivity, Contracts and Corporations (GLOBALVALUE) at the Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School. Within this project, led by Prof. Poul F. Kjær, my research examines contemporary global value chain practices. In particular, I study international trade fairs both as temporally compressed value chains in themselves and as arenas where broader value chain narratives are produced, negotiated, and communicated. 

In addition to my research, I serve as co-chair of the Social and Legal Systems Working Group of the European Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL).  

Recent research projects

Global Value Chain Law (GLOBALVALUE)

GLOBALVALUE studies the regulation of Global Value Chains through a socio-legal approach. Financed by an ERC Advance grant.

Outside activities

PAND Co-Chair, 2021–2022

Co-Chair of the PhD Association Network Denmark which provides a common voice for Early Career Researchers in Denmark.

Co-chair of the WG Social and Legal Systems and board member of the RCSL

The Research Committee of Sociology of Law is part of the International Sociological Association.