Truth, Projects

Space – Time – Law: From Courtrooms to the Digital Memory

STATUS

Archived

ASPECTS

law, archive, human-rights, mapping, migration, digital, ma

TEAM

Seifeldeen Elfouly

PARTNERS

European Center for Consitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)

ABSTRACT

In the context of asylum cases in the EU, mechanisms of law remain ambiguous in their language, structure and logic. My approach is an attempt to represent the law beyond its textual facade, while raising critical questions on the court procedures and its decisions making process in asylum cases. Can data maps offer a hybrid medium for countering legal procedures or for elaborating fragments of legal double standards? Do arbitrary decisions exist in the legal mind? What roles can data maps play in investigative journalism and legal activism? Can data maps frame critical patterns in legal decision-making?

In the context of asylum cases in the EU, mechanisms of law remain ambiguous in their language, structure and logic. My approach is an attempt to represent the …