Research Interests

• Law and Technology
• Business and Human Rights
• Accountability
• ESG

My research focuses on how the concept of accountability plays in corporate and administrative settings. I am especially interested in the interplay of business and human rights and in how organisations conceptualise, manage and share knowledge.

My principal digital interests are in:

• Law and Technology
• Text analytics
• Electronic disclosure
• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

I am especially interested in how technology supports and reconfigures how knowledge is imagined as a kind of accountability in institutional settings such as in law. I am also interested in how privacy plays out in different settings. And finally am interested in new questions that arise at the interface of technology and business and human rights.

Relevant projects

O’Kelly, Ciarán. 2019. “Corporate Social Responsibility and the Grammar of Human Rights.” Social & Legal Studies 28 (5): 625–49

O'Kelly, Ciarán. 2023. “Technological Innovation and Legal Knowledge.” In The European Group for Public Administration. https://ciaranokelly.org/media/files/OKelly_EGPA2023.pdf

 

Affiliations

Global Centre for IP and Technology Law, QUB Law School