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a_cubedWell, this week's trip abroad (it seems to be once a week at the moment ghu help me) was to Madrid. Next week's is to Paris. I'm double booked in Paris for two full day meetings. They're getting me for half a day each. At least they are both in Paris so i can do that.
All of these are for security-related EU research proposals. It's a weird thing to be involved with for someone with my rather libertarian attitudes, in some ways. partly I have to try and create that "moral vacuum" thing that law students get taught about - look at what the law says not what you believe the law should say. Since part of my work in these proposals is looking at what the law actually says I have to try and create that and not let my feelings about how the law should be get in the way of giving an honest research result. It's much more difficult to separate my own feelings about how much government (and private) organisations should be able to surveil ordinary people from the "social acceptability" side of things. But it's a necessary piece of that as well. Of course I do inform the "ethical" approach of these projects as well, which is how I justify my involvement in them to myself.
I'm not sure if any of the above stuff makes sense to anyone who doesn't know the research I'm doing these days. If you're at all interested you can do a search on the EU's PASR programme ISCAPS project. It's supposed to have a web presence of its own but we haven't set that up properly yet - and that's partly my responsibility since Reading is in charge of the "dissemination" activities.
All of these are for security-related EU research proposals. It's a weird thing to be involved with for someone with my rather libertarian attitudes, in some ways. partly I have to try and create that "moral vacuum" thing that law students get taught about - look at what the law says not what you believe the law should say. Since part of my work in these proposals is looking at what the law actually says I have to try and create that and not let my feelings about how the law should be get in the way of giving an honest research result. It's much more difficult to separate my own feelings about how much government (and private) organisations should be able to surveil ordinary people from the "social acceptability" side of things. But it's a necessary piece of that as well. Of course I do inform the "ethical" approach of these projects as well, which is how I justify my involvement in them to myself.
I'm not sure if any of the above stuff makes sense to anyone who doesn't know the research I'm doing these days. If you're at all interested you can do a search on the EU's PASR programme ISCAPS project. It's supposed to have a web presence of its own but we haven't set that up properly yet - and that's partly my responsibility since Reading is in charge of the "dissemination" activities.
