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Lu­isa Teresa Hedler Fer­reira Fjel­lander

Postdoc

Emner
Jura Digitalisering Kunstig intelligens Værdikæde Infrastruktur Menneskerettigheder

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.