CDSL launches The Archipelago Seminar: Law, Information and the State
On 20 May 2026, CDSL launched The Archipelago Seminar: Law, Information and the State, a recurring research seminar devoted to questions of law, information, digital governance and political theory.
The inaugural session, titled “The State as Information Platform: Law, Political Philosophy and Digital Governance”, was delivered by Prof. Vagelis Papakonstantinou and introduced the central thesis of his recent open-access book Archipelago, and the information platform that is the state: that the state may be understood as an information platform.
The seminar discussed how this perspective may open up new ways of thinking about the state, the European Union and the digital world, as well as legal and political concepts such as territory, sovereignty, rights, law, property and freedom.
The seminar series will use the framework developed in Archipelago as a recurring point of departure for discussing law, institutions, information and contemporary digital governance.
More information and slides are available on the book page.