The Verdict: Law & Society

Author: Dickson Poon School of Law

Brought to you by The Dickson Poon School of Law, The Verdict gets to the legal heart the issues our society is facing today. Through conversations with some of the leading experts and influencers shaping and implementing our laws, we interrogate ideas and issues in the areas of human rights, trafficking, digital technology, and beyond.
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The Verdict: Tackling Trafficking with Tech
Episode 5
Wednesday, 24 November, 2021

This week The Verdict comes to you from The Alan Turing Institute. Anna speaks to Parosha Chandran, leading UK human rights lawyer and Professor of Practise at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London; and Dr Anjali Mazumder, Theme Lead on AI and Justice & Human Rights at The Turing Institute. The Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, and this live podcast event was part of its inaugural international series on AI and Data Science entitled Do Great Minds Think Alike? Listen as the group discusses: + AI’s role in combatting modern slavery and human trafficking + the scale of the issue of human trafficking today + the use of AI as a preventative tool that can determine the patterns and behaviours that lead to trafficking, in addition to detecting existing exploitation + the global challenge in tackling transcontinental trafficking networks, as law enforcement agencies are mostly bound by national or regional jurisdictions Social links: + The Alan Turing Institute on Twitter @turinginst https://twitter.com/turinginst Additional resources: Read the case V.C.L and A.N v The United Kingdom: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-207927%22]} Read about the case: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-professor-wins-landmark-judgement Hear Parosha Chandran discuss the case further in this interview with King's Transnational Legal Institute: https://youtu.be/6ZaMctki_IU Beat Provided By https://freebeats.io Produced By White Hot