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.

My research sits at the intersection of law, politics, and aesthetics, asking how justice is made visible and for whom, and the overal relation between material and the social in justice system

At its core, I investigate the digitalisation of justice as a politico-aesthetic project. Courts are not neutral spaces; they produce meaning through their architectures, rituals, and increasingly, their technologies. I examine how the judiciary deploys cameras, audio-visual systems, and digital infrastructure to perform transparency and neutrality, interrogating how these technologies do not merely record justice but actively constitute it. I understand digitalisation as an administrative turn: a regime of capture and datafication through which the exercise of justice is reorganised, reterritorialised from the material to the digital, and rendered legible in new and partial ways.

This concern with political aesthetics extends to human rights discourse in the Global South. I trace how human rights imaginaries travel through international law, INGOs, NGOs, and into local societies, attending to the aesthetic and ideological forms they assume along the way. Violence, utopia, and the aesthetics of ideology are central analytical categories here. I am interested in how rights discourse produces its own visual and rhetorical grammar, and how that grammar intersects with, legitimises, or contests neoliberal political rationalities.

The unifying question in my research is one of political aesthetics: how justice, rights, and power are made to appear, and what remains invisible in the process.

Founding Editor: courtofimages.com 
Co-Lead for Law and Justice Research Group

Public Law, Administrative Law, Public International Law, Human Rights and International Law, International Protection of Human Rights, Contract Law