Dr Ozan Kamiloglu

I joined LSBU in the Division of Law in 2020. I specialise in digitalisation of the courts, courtroom aesthetics, the effects of social movements on law and theories of justice and human rights. Previously I worked at the University of Essex, SOAS, and Birkbeck College where I gained my PhD degree in Law.

I research on digitalisation of justice with a particular focus on aesthetics of justice making.

I look at the judiciary's engagement with notions of transparency and neutrality by examining the use of cameras in the courtroom, the implementation of new audio-visual (AV) technologies and the recordings they produce, and the digitization of the courts. 

My research focuses on those who create and shape judicial policy and practice on the use of technology in the courtroom; it considers the reterritorialisation of justice by the courts from material to digital and the implications of this transformation. I think about digitalization as an administrative turn, where mechanisms of digital capture or datafication shape the exercise of justice.

I also look at human rights activists from the Global South, their understanding of human rights discourses in various countries, and how discourses of HR travel through International Law, INGOs, NGOs, and finally society. Concepts of violence, utopias, the formation of ideologies and their aesthetics, and neoliberalism play an important role in my research.

Finally, I work on the concept of ‘right to the city’ with a local focus. Here, I think about the relation between human rights and the global economy. This area of my research covers the relation between austerity programmes, economic policies and the concept of rights. Consequently, I try to analyse the complex relationship between the current global economic model and rights discourse.