General Overview
The GILT Centre is the research centre of the GILT project – Governance, International Law & Technology – hosted by Roma Tre University. The project has two other components: GILT Books, the book series that includes open-access publications released by Roma Tre University Press, and the GILT Journal, a scholarly periodical.
A Central Question
GILT’s research starts from a question: how power is produced, distributed, exercised, and constrained in the age of digital technologies. Generative AI, the geopolitics of digital infrastructures, cybersecurity, algorithmic regulation, regulatory fragmentation, and technological competition among major powers require a space for reflection that is rigorous, interdisciplinary, policy-oriented, and capable of building institutional memory over time. GILT was born in this context.
Objectives
GILT does not merely comment on current developments; it builds a repository of reflection capable of tracking the evolution of technological governance over a 5–15 year horizon. It accompanies and shapes the debate of the coming decade rather than simply reacting to the latest regulatory developments.
The Name and the Approach
The name stands for three dimensions. Governance provides the overarching analytical framework, International Law supplies the legal architecture, and Technology is the domain in which these questions emerge and evolve. The acronym also inspired the project’s visual identity and logo.
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, offering an infrastructural approach. This is a broader and more durable perspective: specific technologies will change, while legitimacy, authority, accountability, institutional design, and the distribution of power will remain at the centre of scholarly and policy debates.
Areas of Interest
- public international law and European Union law;
- cybersecurity and data law;
- governance of artificial intelligence and blockchain;
- digital trade, space and emerging technologies, military technology;
- digital constitutionalism: fundamental rights, platform power, digital sovereignty, private governance, technical standards as normative sources;
- geopolitics of technology: semiconductors, cloud infrastructures, submarine cables, satellites, quantum computing, military AI;
- philosophy of governance and technology: algorithmic legitimacy, non-human authority, the epistemic limits of AI, responsibility in distributed systems.
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