At the heart of the project is a periodical journal dedicated to governance, international law, and technology. It is conceived not as a traditional law review publishing only academic articles, but as a broader intellectual platform. GILT approaches technology as a system embedded in social structures and markets, physical infrastructures, energy systems and natural environments. Contemporary developments—including generative AI, the geopolitics of digital infrastructures, cybersecurity, algorithmic regulation, smart cities, the environmental footprint of emerging technologies, regulatory fragmentation, One-Health approach and technological competition among major powers—require a space that is simultaneously: rigorous and scholarly; interdisciplinary; policy-oriented; capable of building institutional memory over time.
The central question is how power is produced, distributed, exercised, and constrained in the age of digital technologies.
A journal built around this question occupies a space that remains relatively underdeveloped in Europe: the intersection of traditional international law, global governance studies, and the analysis of emerging technologies. Its ambition is to accompany and shape the debate over the coming decade rather than simply react to the latest regulatory developments.
The journal’s intellectual positioning is straightforward: while international law journals study norms, technology journals study innovations, and governance journals study institutions, GILT studies the transformation of power within the global technological ecosystem.