Conference: Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance

The Institute for International Law and Justice at New York University School of Law will host a conference on "Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance," September 13-14, 2010. Here's the idea:

The conference will examine (i) the genealogy of indicators and other quantitative techniques of governance, (ii) the relationships between the producers, users, subjects, and audiences of indicators, and (iii) creation, use and effects of indicators as forms of knowledge and as mechanisms of making and implementing decisions in global governance and connected local practices. Although the conference will consider how (and by whom) indicators are produced, the focus will not be on improving the process of indicator construction. Rather, using insights from case studies, empirical work and theoretical approaches from several disciplines the conference aims to identify legal, policy, and normative implications of the use of indicators as a technology of global governance.