The Law of the List

Gavin Sullivan is a lecturer in law at the University of Kent. His research focuses on the politics of global security law and global data infrastructures, and has been published in journals such as Transnational Legal Theory, the Leiden Journal of International Law, the American Journal of International Law and Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. Gavin is a practising lawyer with experience in human rights litigation. He coordinates the Transnational Listing Project and has represented numerous individuals in delisting proceedings before the UN Office of the Ombudsperson. He is a member of the Law and Society Association, the European Society of International Law, the Socio-Legal Studies Association and the Law Society of England and Wales.

• 1. The law of the list; 2. Global listing technologies and the politics of expertise; 3. The list as multiple object: the UN Office of the Ombudsperson; 4. Complexity in the courts: the spatiotemporal dynamics of the list; 5. Conclusions.

'The Law of the List carefully traces the emergence of global security law through sites of global governance where legal and security practices are reassembled. Both theoretically and methodologically, the book will be indispensable reading for scholars and students researching contemporary security governance.' Claudia Aradau, Professor of International Politics, Department of War Studies, King's College London