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\"\"Robert joined Exeter Law School as an Associate Professor in February 2022 after nine years at the Open University Law School.<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/b>
\nRobert’s current research focuses on speculations and intersections of law, technology, and data using psychoanalysis, critical theory, political economy, and philosophy.<\/p>\n

Select Outputs<\/b><\/h4>\n

R. Herian<\/strong>. “Techno-Legal Supertoys: Smart Contracts and the Fetishization of Legal Certainty”, i<\/a>n P. Hunn (eds).\u00a0Smart Legal Contracts Computable Law in Theory and Practice<\/em>,\u00a0Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.<\/p>\n

R. Herian.<\/strong> Capitalism and the Equity Fetish Desire, Property, Justice<\/a>, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.<\/p>\n

R. Herian. Data New Trajectories in Law<\/a>, Routledge, 2021.<\/p>\n

R. Herian. “Technology with legal education”, i<\/a>n Wall IR, Middleton F, Shah S (eds.) The Critical Legal Pocketbook<\/em>, Counter Press, 2021.<\/p>\n

R. Herian. “Blockchain, GDPR, and fantasies of data sovereignty<\/a>“. Law, Innovation and Technology<\/em>, 12(1), 156-174, 2020.<\/p>\n

R. Herian. “Smart contracts: a remedial analysis<\/a>“,\u00a0Information & Communications Technology Law<\/em>, 30(1), 17-34, 2020.<\/p>\n

R. Herian. Regulating Blockchain Critical Perspectives in Law and Technology<\/a>, Routledge, 2018.<\/p>\n

R. Herian. “Taking Blockchain Seriously<\/a>” Law and Critique<\/em>, 29(2), 163-171, 2018.<\/p>\n

Select Conference Appearances<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cLife, Technology, and Capital\u201d \u2013 Critical Legal Conference, University of Dundee, September 2021.<\/p>\n

\u201cLedger Societies and Rituals of Verification\u201d – Law & Technology PGR Conference (online), University of Sheffield, December 2020<\/p>\n

\u201cRituals of verification\u201d \u2013 Global Norms in a Divided World Symposium<\/a>, Queen\u2019s University Belfast, 27-28 February 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing in data\u201d \u2013 IGLP Idea Lab: The Fate of Law as Technology, Harvard University, June 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmart contract performance and the rise of restitution\u201d – SLSA annual conference, Leeds University, April 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cFantasies of control\u201d – American Society of Law Culture and the Humanities Conference<\/a>, Carleton University, Montreal, 22-23 March 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlockchain and fantasies of data sovereignty\u201d \u2013 Critical Legal Conference<\/a>, The Open University, 6-8 September 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlockchain for [no] good: technology, regulation and the ethics of political economy\u201d \u2013 American Society of Law Culture and the Humanities Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC, March 2018.<\/p>\n

Select Media Appearances<\/b><\/p>\n

Desire Lines on the Ruya Maps Podcast,<\/a>\u00a0September 2019.<\/p>\n

Blockchains, Fact and Fiction: a Legal Perspective,<\/a> YouTube, 2 September 2019.<\/p>\n

Regulating blockchain – critical perspectives,<\/a>\u00a0YouTube, 21 May 2018.<\/p>\n

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Email Robert<\/a> | Visit Robert’s University of Exeter Law School Profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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